The main fear for young parents who are expecting their newborn son or daughter is the fear of replacing the adored child. It is quite possible that the mother will bring someone else's child, and she will not be able to recognize this.
There is even scary, though unofficial statistics: for ten thousand births there are four cases when obstetricians mixed up children in the hospital. Our article will be devoted to the real fate of lost children, the truth about which the whole world has learned.
Real stories of children mixed up in a maternity hospital
Surprisingly, sometimes the truth still comes to the surface, and the lost children find their real parents. These life stories cannot but horrify.
Twelve years old with another child
A young nineteen-year-old girl hailing from the small provincial town of Kopeisk, once in the maternity ward, was looking forward to the birth of her first child. It was there that Julia met another woman in labor who was on the same date. Circumstances turned out so that childbirth began at both almost at the same time, and at their end the young mothers fell asleep in order to regain strength.
Suspicions that children were confused in the maternity hospital did not arise at first. Julia considered the daughter’s appearance atypical for the family to be genes that came from her husband’s side. Unfortunately, happiness in this family did not last as long as it could be. The girl’s father went to prison and began to demand an examination for paternity, as he was sure that his daughter was not his. After the divorce, the need for DNA testing was already a mandatory procedure for receiving alimony from the father. Thus, it became known that the children were confused in the hospital. Fortunately for the mother, her real daughter lived quite close, just a few kilometers from the biological mother in another family.
When meeting with her own daughter, Julia noticed that the child is insanely similar to her in childhood. However, it is worth noting that the girls themselves do not agree to change families, as they were raised in completely different conditions. Religion plays the main role here, as Julia's own daughter was raised in severity in a Muslim family. Families communicate well with each other.
All is well that ends well
When the expectant mother says: “I’m afraid that they will confuse the child in the maternity hospital,” doctors can reassure her that on a certain day only two women will give birth. However, as it turned out, even this cannot guarantee the absence of monstrous medical errors.
This is precisely the story that happened in South Africa. More than a year has passed before the moment when the substitution was opened. Mothers did not change their children so as not to injure the babies. In addition, they pretty much managed to become attached to them. The best solution was to organize regular meetings of the kids and make friends with families. The boys actually became brothers to each other, and soon one of them completely moved to his biological mother.
Prince and the Pauper in Reality
It may seem that the story "The Prince and the Pauper" is just an artistic fiction that can never happen in the modern world. However, due to the fact that the children were confused in the hospital, the famous story came to life in the Land of the Rising Sun - Japan.
The boy, whose fate was to live in abundance all his life and bathe in luxury, was forced by mistake of doctors to literally survive on a meager allowance after the death of his step-father. In this poor family there were three more children, the care of which fell on the shoulders of the unfortunate mother. Difficult life circumstances affected the boy at an early age: from two years old he was actually starving. Upon reaching working age, the guy was forced to find work in order to bring at least some money to his family.
Another Japanese, whose destiny was to be poverty and destitution, possessed everything that he could want. In addition, he received a prestigious education and now owns a company of world significance. On his personal initiative, a genetic examination was carried out, as a result of which it turned out that his parents were not his relatives.
However, justice, albeit late, but triumphed. As a result of the trial, it was decided to pay large monetary compensation to the man on whose head difficult life circumstances had unfairly fallen.
It took 40 years to get to the bottom of the truth
40 years ago, in one of the towns of the Perm Territory, two joyful women were finally able to experience the happiness of motherhood. Daughters were named Veronica and Tanya. At first, no one suspected that the children had been confused in the hospital. But once Veronica’s father questioned the fact that the girl was dear to him, since she did not at all look like him in appearance. In addition, the appearance of Tanya was very different from the appearance of the relatives of the family in which she was born and grew up. Women could not confirm their fears with genetic expertise, since at that time science had not yet reached such a development, so the terrible guesses for a long time remained just guesses.
Only recently, it became possible to conduct a DNA test, which confirmed that the girls had been brought up in non-native families all these years. Already grown girls are going to sue the doctors who mixed up the children in the hospital, to the court in order to somehow restore justice.
How is it now
Doctors and obstetricians of all orphanages claim that such errors are a relic of the past and in the modern world women in labor should not worry that they will get someone else's child. To ensure that the newborn is not lost, immediately after birth, plastic bracelets are put on both hands on him, which contain all the necessary information about his parents. As a rule, they are put on only in the presence of mother, and they can be removed only with the use of tremendous physical force or with the help of scissors.
Particularly progressive maternity hospitals are actively practicing the use of bracelets with an electronic chip, which are worn not only on the newborn, but also on the mother. Modern practice is to give the baby to the mother immediately after birth. According to studies, mothers begin to actively produce oxytocin, which directly affects not only milk production, but also affection and love between a woman and a baby.
What if they changed?
No matter what the doctors say, the expectant mothers do not have the main question: how do they find out that the children were mixed up in the hospital? If you or your acquaintances have any doubts about kinship, the best solution would be to immediately conduct a genetic examination. Only a DNA test is able to uncover the mystery and, possibly, shed light on true kinship.
In the 21st century, this kind of expertise is far from rare. Their prices are not so "biting" in comparison with DNA tests of previous years, so any family with an average income can make them if they wish. But do not forget that shocking information can hurt not only parents, but also have an extremely negative impact on the psyche of a child.
Practice shows that modern men increasingly insist on conducting a DNA test after the baby is born.
Conclusion
Let's hope that you were interested in reading the article and it turned out to be at least something useful to you. The most important thing is to love your children, and then they will gladly repay you with mutual love and care in the future.