The families of two men who discovered through DNA tests that they were switched at birth 38 years ago are accusing a North Dakota hospital of robbing them of the lives they were supposed to lead. Ky...
A hospital statement says there’s no evidence staff was responsible for the switch.
But Bylin, born Jeremy Morrison, says he still has the hospital bracelet that misidentified him as Kyle Bylin.
Two years have passed since the DNA tests shattered what they thought they knew about their families — including disorienting moments, emotional family meetings and thoughts about the what-ifs.
“Kyle is still my son — that is never going to change,” Evelyn Newton, who raised him as her own, told The Associated Press in a phone interview Friday. “But I feel robbed of the life I should have had with my biological son. You can’t go back and replace 35 years. First steps, driving a car, getting married — how do you make up for that?”
The hospital doesn’t dispute that the babies were switched at some point. It says it’s working to better understand what happened, but has uncovered no evidence that its administration or staff were responsible for the lives-altering error.
I mean, if at least one of the babies had the correct bracelet on…
Gotta assume that are some point a nurse handed someone the wrong baby. Although the fact this dude’s mom kept the bracelet for almost 40 years and never fucking questioned why it has someone else’s name…
They may have been stupid enough to just grab the baby that they thought was theirs at the time…
Gotta assume that are some point a nurse handed someone the wrong baby. Although the fact this dude’s mom kept the bracelet for almost 40 years and never fucking questioned why it has someone else’s name…
Says the bracelet misidentified the baby, so it didn’t have “someone else’s name,” it had the name the parents expected. It was just on the wrong baby.
“Kyle is still my son — that is never going to change,” Evelyn Newton, who raised him as her own, told The Associated Press in a phone interview Friday. “But I feel robbed of the life I should have had with my biological son. You can’t go back and replace 35 years. First steps, driving a car, getting married — how do you make up for that?”
but you had all those experiences. for all you know your life would have been worse with your biological son.
I’ve heard in North America, they basically take the baby from the mother as soon as it’s born and put it in a “baby room” with all the other babies. If that’s true, no wonder there’s so many mix-ups. Where I live, the baby stays with the mum when possible
Sounds like a simple swap error to me. Probably the nurse who was affixing the bracelets got distracted and got the two mixed up, so each baby ended up with the other’s bracelet. North Dakota and only two babies born that day makes me think it was a small hospital where a lot of things were being done by hand, and not a lot of checks were being made.
I mean, if at least one of the babies had the correct bracelet on…
Gotta assume that are some point a nurse handed someone the wrong baby. Although the fact this dude’s mom kept the bracelet for almost 40 years and never fucking questioned why it has someone else’s name…
They may have been stupid enough to just grab the baby that they thought was theirs at the time…
Says the bracelet misidentified the baby, so it didn’t have “someone else’s name,” it had the name the parents expected. It was just on the wrong baby.
but you had all those experiences. for all you know your life would have been worse with your biological son.
I’ve heard in North America, they basically take the baby from the mother as soon as it’s born and put it in a “baby room” with all the other babies. If that’s true, no wonder there’s so many mix-ups. Where I live, the baby stays with the mum when possible
Used to be, maybe. I think they’ve changed.
They have changed.
American, here. Both my kids stayed in my wife’s hospital room the entire time, from the time they were born to the time we left the hospital.
Even medical exams happened right there in the room. My kids were NOT born in the same hospital - they were born hundreds of miles apart.
Sounds like a simple swap error to me. Probably the nurse who was affixing the bracelets got distracted and got the two mixed up, so each baby ended up with the other’s bracelet. North Dakota and only two babies born that day makes me think it was a small hospital where a lot of things were being done by hand, and not a lot of checks were being made.