Baby accidentally given to wrong couple reunited with real parents - BBC News

he was born and immediately when he was taken out of me he was passed by me and I gave him a kiss and then they took him to the nursery he was taken to the nursery and that was the last time I saw him so the next morning what happened the next morning they bring all the babies back to the moms and their rooms so at noon I got my baby and when I saw him the first impression was this is not the same baby that I saw last night and I looked at him and I remembered that the baby that I saw was just like my husband and this baby did not look like my husband and I started to tell all the stuff that was in the hospital and they all insisted and said no this is your baby you were medicated last night after the c-section we they put like extra medication on me so I was not they said you were not aware this is your baby I asked the doctors they said this is your baby so I'm like okay this is my baby but your mother's instinct told you it was not and yet still you took that child you brought that child home here to Texas yes I took the baby on the fourth day at the hospital I was going home and I I had visit my friends came and I told them till that day look do you think they changed my baby and my friends would say no no it's the same baby I asked like at least 2030 I don't know how many people everybody that came and they all said no this is your baby so I went home and then my husband came from Texas he was he was in Texas and the baby the day started to go by and his features his skin everything started to change and he started to not look anything like neither one of us so I had that thought in my heart in my mind I was nursing the baby I was taking care of him loving him like ours and I started to fall in love with the baby and this feeling was so difficult because you love this baby like your baby but then inside I had to thought what if this is not my baby what if this is not my child where is my child where is my baby and I I tried to put that thought away I said no I'm this is not real this cannot happen to me this is Hollywood this is the movies and that thought came back and forth every day every week I could not resist that thought that feeling and I took the decision to go and make a DNA test so one week before I never told my husband anything I never mentioned to him I would just ask him hey do you think the baby looks like us and you know like what was your answer rich I just accepted it is my child and now I look back at the pictures right around the time that we came to Dallas when he was 3 months old and I'm shocked that I never suspected because you can see that it's just obviously not my child if you look at some of the pictures how I didn't I don't know how I didn't ask myself you just you don't think about these things I think we were in love we were in love with the baby and even when I did the DNA test I thought I was betraying him that was a feeling I had I'm betraying my son but I cannot live with this and I said well if he I thought if this is my son this DNA test is just going to prove that he's mine and this thought has to unbranded me when the DNA test results came back what did they say 0.0% the mother of the baby it was impossible that that was your son impossible zero point zero percent and how did you feel at that moment I just felt on the floor it was my body could even resist the pain the thought that the baby that I had been nursing taken care of loving him bathing him that he was not mine and then I had another thought which came with it where's my baby so I had two thoughts what was going to happen with this baby and where's my baby so I just fell on the floor started to cry and cry and cry and then my husband came and he's like what happened and I and I'm like how am I going to tell him what am I going to tell him and I couldn't even speak for minutes and minutes and give him the news that way and rich did you I mean how did you feel when Mercy told you I was just overwhelmed and just confused I didn't even know how to process I remember the first trauma to me was oh my goodness I have a child and my child is somewhere out there in the world where is he who's taking care of him what happened to him why did this happen am I ever going to see him again and I just felt like a panic that my only child was lost or stolen I I didn't know what it was and that was the concern it was after that that I started to process we might lose the child that we've been raising for three months and I remember that was sort of the second trauma of the incident is that we might lose one and I remember in the beginning that was so difficult to talk about losing Jacob wasn't it and so we started saying to each other and hoping that we would be able our hope in the beginning was that we would find our real child but we would also be able to keep the one that we had raised for three months and that we would have two children was our hope but I remember I was the first one that started saying it you know like look at this child has a legitimate family we're going to have to give him away and I think I was the one that accepted that first they did track down your biological child they did DNA tests on other babies born at the hospital and they found your biological child and then very quickly I think within a matter of hours you had to hand over the child you've been caring for I remember that the judge called me into her room and she said we found your baby and I I when she told me that I thought like I couldn't even her words were like what you found my baby I couldn't understand it I couldn't believe it it was it was something wonderful great relief and then my lawyer in the car he said we were celebrating we were can you imagine after all these weeks looking for him and we were like crazy and calling everybody it wasn't a big party and my lawyer said we have to bring the other baby and I'm like what he said yeah we found their family and you have to hand them in and I couldn't believe it that's when I realized until he told me you have to give the other baby I was like oh my and we got there and we had to like garage we were rushed in we have to go quickly just bring the baby and we barely got time to say goodbye and we got I got all his clothes and we took him in the office and we handed him in and that was the most difficult part I think of all the situation and then at the same time it's so sad we got our baby and that was so happy another feeling we finally saw him and when he looked he saw as he was smiling and he was laughing and it was so something happen real really beautiful a he was dressed just like my husband and Jacob was dressed like his that too it was we did we didn't know each other we don't know anything but the babies when we took them and we switched they each were dressed like their father it was really nice and we celebrated we took Moses home and it was beautiful it was a a blessing of God I got to nurse him too without any problems and he adjusted he never cried he's he's amazing his adjustment how peaceful very peaceful and happy and smiling and very happy very happy and when we got home we realized that we didn't have any clothes for him because we took all the other clothes were the other baby and we're like oh my what are we going to do tonight because we got home very late and then our friends started to come and bring gifts and you know but you don't even think about that you know your thoughts are like it's it's it's like an emotional roller coast Germany contacts with Jacob now the last time we we we saw was in when we got their footprints and birth certificate and we got to spend about two hours with the other family and yeah I mean a lot of pictures and videos - do you think you will continue to have a place in his life over the years or is that not going to be possible so we would like that yeah I really would love to see justice in this situation Matthew I'd like to know what happened how did this happen because I don't want to see it happen to another person it's done a terrible financial damage and emotional damage to us but but we're here we survived and God has helped us and comforted us through the process and everything is turning out okay

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Keywords: bbc, baby swap, bbc news, news, baby swap interview, interview, el salvador, parents, Richard Cushworth, Mercy, dna, test, dna test, mercy cushworth, lifestyle, culture, youtube, video, Mercedes Casanellas, Moses Cushworth, cushworth, matthew price, exclusive

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Length: 11min 13sec (673 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 02 2016

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[u/ecka_26]

They should sue the shit out of that hospital!!!