Wobbles

A Czech hospital where two babies were mixed up at birth has sacked two nurses and disciplined five staff members. The case - in which two mothers have brought up the wrong baby girls for 10 months - has shocked the country.
The director of Trebic Hospital gave details of the hospital's internal inquiry into the affair at a special televised news conference.
He said two nurses in the maternity ward had been found responsible for the mix-up and had been dismissed.
A further five employees - including doctors and health managers - had been reprimanded and moved to other wards.
Secret DNA test
Nikola and Veronika were both born on 9 December 2006 in Trebic, 165km (100 miles) south of the Czech capital, Prague.
The mix-up only came to light when a dark-haired, dark-eyed father - suspicious at his baby daughter's blonde hair and blue eyes - underwent a secret DNA test.
The test proved he was not the girl's biological father, but a second test proved his partner was not the girl's biological mother either.
Angry and confused, they approached the hospital, which then discovered the terrible mistake.
The parents now face the agonising prospect of swapping their children.
One mother is said to be suffering extreme emotional trauma.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7042371.stm

What do you think you would do after 10 months of bonding with the wrong child?

Mynxie

what can be done?

I mean either way the families are gonna be pretty screwed up cause of it!

Wobbles

Think I would like the return of the baby I gave birth too however not sure. Just awful awful awful & its good to see its not been made up with excuses and people are getting slapped hands for this.

I would certainly want to continue a relationship with the child I have brought up in hope the other mother would want the same.

Can't imagine how I'd feel & what I'd do. I can only guess b ut how sad

Vickie

That would be a really difficult situation, on the one hand you want to raise the child you gave birth to but on the other you've bonded with the other child for 10 months, can't say what I would do, just hope it never happens!

Mynxie

exactly

there's nothing that will resolve the situation

Yvonne

If they swap the babies then they will be very unsettled and see their "real" parents as strangers. Such a shame!

I don't know what i would want to do, i would love to see my birth child BUT the bond between them and their "false" babies must be so strong.

I would not like to go through that!

Tilly

Dreadful story, they're about Bethanie's age and I couldn't imagine being told she wasn't mine now, it would be very hard to cope with!

Hopefully they can still be friends or something..

krystal&jack

i'd want my biological child back but not sure i'd want to give up my baby i'd brought up though! I'd want them both. It's heartbreaking isn't it poor families

Iwantone!!!

i read this in the paper the other day i couldnot believe it

Soontobe

Oh my gosh, talk about screwed up.. that would be so hard