Baby swap

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news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/7236544.stm

A hospital in Nottingham accidentally swapped two babies and one of them was breast fed by the wrong mother.

Apparently it was realised after an hour but blimey I wonder what the mums in question think of it.

Could have ended up as a story line in Coronation Street .

Horrible for the mums and I think they are having to carry out HIV tests (does this mean that the b/f mum has HIV?? - in which case she probably wouldn't have been b/f anyway).

I think it would be just a precaution they would take to reassure bothe sets of babies .

Poor families

• Both sets of families

poor babies

It does seem bizarre freckle but probably a precaution as comfytoast says.

No idea why their identity ankle labels were not read it doesnt take any time and frankly lack of staff is a poor excuse for this.

whilsst i know that newborns all look the same. i think i would be able to recognise my newborn whilst trying to feed him. assuming i had seen him before. and since babies are delivered onto you, and you basically dont let go of them unles syou give to your dp, i really dont see how this could have happend.,

i was a bit confused by this, when my dd was born she was never taken anywhere. how did they manage to mix them up?

Well they shouldnt be taken away from their mums so I am not sure why they were. Most maternity units have a policy of rooming in and advise mums to accompany their babies. most tests are now done by the bedside so why this happened I dont know.

My DD1 was taken away from me 15 minutes after birth and not returned for four hours - just one reason why I had the next two at home. Pretty sure they gave me back the right baby though.

God how awful for you Rosa but why? They normally only do it if there is a good clinical reason and the baby is ill.

I also wondered how the babies came to be away from their mums. I saw nothing mentioned in any of the articles I read about it that would explain it. Very shocking.

She passed meconium during labour and they were concerned she might have an infection so they decided to give her IV antibiotics and took her off to SCBU. Then they were too busy to deal with her, and just left us in the delivery room waiting and waiting. It was horrible. We were kept in hospital for a week and on the final day the midwife wouldn't discharge me even though the paediatrician had signed DD off because she was 'too busy' and we had to wait until the next shift came on. I cried and cried and she shouted at me. Why I didn't just discharge myself I'll never know, I had this mad idea that I was supposed to do as I was told.

Oh Rosa that sounds awful.

To be honest though even if they didnt do anything straight away they did take your baby to the right place and it was following protocol to take her t SCBU in those circumstances. I think it is the not knowing which is the really difficult thing in illness.

Rosa, that is awful. Unfortunately when a m/w has 8 women and 8 babies to look after, some of whom may be ill, I'm afraid that discharges become a low priority She shouldn't have shouted at you though.

Plenty of babies end up by the m/w station during a night shift as mums buzz and ask if you can have the baby for a bit so they can sleep.