Czech baby mix up - swap back or not


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  • No, carry on with the child you've been bringing up.

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    Official Czech baby mix up - swap back or not

    Can you imagine this?


    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? Neither choice easy of course but do you think you would want to swap back?

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    i think i would have to swap back allthough it would be an incediblly difficult choice! i guess i would make an aggreement to be part of the other child life too because after all that time of bonding i dont think you would be able to stand back and just let go

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    after lots of thought -- i haven't voted because i really don't know what i'd do! It is such a nightmare situation that i think you would have to be there to decide - In an ideal world i'd like to think that whatever they decide that at least in a postive vein that rather than this being a negative it could turn out positively - both children will be lucky enough to have 4 " parents" watching out for and loving them. You would hope that whatever they decide to do that both famillies will now stay close and that the children could be raised as "sisters" almost ... a hard one!
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    I couldn't vote either - I can't imagine what that would feel like so cannot say what i would do for the best.

    I think I would want the return of the child I gave birth too but certainly continue with the other mothers wishes being the same to keep in contact .... I think anyway.

    That is so scarey!

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    i agree i would want my birth child but would want very close contact with the other as im sure the other parent would
    im sure this happened in this country around 14 years ago after i had my eldest

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    I think for the sake of the children when they are older it would be better if they swap. Imagine you found out this had happened to you? If they had a bad life they could end up feeling very bitter against both sets of parents. If the child is not all they want they may blame the child and feel that their own child would have been better.
    It may have to be put through as adoption if the parents don't swap back when they know they have each others child. I think it would be hard in the short term but they would all be better off in the long term


 

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