switches at birth.

[totalyfreaky]

news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1287177,00.html

How would you cope?

that should be switched, not switches

oh no that definitely happened to us

dd2 is a complete genetic mystery

OMG- that is bleeding scary

How hard would that news be for those parents? Or indeed the other parents?

It would be so hard to know what would be the right thing to do... would they have to hand over the child they've raised as their own & take back their own flesh & blood even though they have no bond? I'd hate to be the one to make that decision.

So so hard.

It has happened before, that film, 'switched at birth' I think in the end they kept the child they had brought up, but stayed very close to the other family.

the baby is 10 months old though. Personally I would want my baby back

such a shame, I've always been terrified it happened to me - my DTs are so, so different, even different skin! One very very fair, one olive skin.

So, so hard. Science can be a bastard.

Really pixiefish?

Wouldn't it break your heart having to part with the other little one you love?

If a choice had to be made, I would keep the child I brought home, but I would have to know for certain that my real child was in a secure loving family.

I'm keeping freakish dd2

I remember being paranoid about going to have a shower immediately after giving birth to DS. I was convinced they would mix him up with another .

As it is, he looks completely different to his big sister. She is pale skinned and blonde haired. He is dark and dark wirey curly hair.

That film was on just a few weeks ago tf. Can't believe I stayed up late enough to watch it. Horrible situation to be in though, but I think I might want my baby back too, but it would be heartbreakingly difficult to part with one I'd bonded with unless I knew for sure that he/she was going to be given as much love and care as I'd given as a parent. Perhaps a different story if the child was much older.

Yes, can you imagine handing back a 6 yr old

"The Czech pair, from the southeastern town of Trebic, had grown sick of constant sniping from friends".

What great friends!

You'd want both probably. I know I'd fight to the death to keep ds even if he turned out not to be genetically related to me.

Weird though. It would have to happen very soon after birth surely for you not to notice?

i agree pixiefish, after only 10 months, i would want my own baby back

OMG Thats scary

but pixiefish, if you had raised that child to 10 months old, only to be told "It's not yours, this one is" and handed a baby you've never clapped eyes on - wouldn't you want the one you've raised back? Nightmare.

I'd want both. I understand this isn't an option, but I owuld.

I would definitely want to keep the child that I had brought home.

shudders at the thought of giving my girl away to another family

Luckily, dd looks like a mini-me of dp, so I think I got the right one.

What an awful situation to be in.

Crikey. Thats terrifying. Me and my DP are dark with dark hair, DS is light haired with the bluest eyes ever! Thankfully he now looks like a blond version of his dad. God knows what I'd do in their shoes

we just said that today
one of ours

i couldn't raise someone else's child knowing someone else was raising mine. I really couldn't, even if I'd bonded with the baby i'd had for 10 months, i don't think it's the same as handing over an older child (imo)

I wish I hadn't read that now. Me and DH have very dark hair and DS (15 months) has very very blonde hair - just like in the article

He does have very dark brown eyes though like us and it would have been hard to switch him in the operating theatre - and DH keeps assuring me that he definitely saw him come out of my tummy

surely the only way it could happen is in a country where babies are kept in nurseries, seperate from the mother, or taken off to places without the mother there. And it would have to happen pretty soon I would think for neither of the parents to notice