Mom ‘terrified’ to discover baby she was caring for in hospital wasn’t hers — here’s how she found out
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“God knows what would’ve happened”
The shocking incident occurred last September at a hospital in Dorset, England where Maisie Beth, 22, had given birth to her daughter, Isabelle. Beth says she only realized the mortifying mix-up when she went to change her daughter’s diaper and discovered she was actually tending to a baby boy. “God knows what would’ve happened,” Beth told Caters on Wednesday “I could’ve breastfed this baby or the mom could’ve woken up to an empty crib.”
One night, Beth went to go check on her newborn and found a midwife in an office holding a tot
Shortly after giving birth to baby Isabelle, midwives informed Beth that the infant needed phototherapy and would have to be placed in a special nursery. “The midwife came out of the office and told me to come in because they had Isabelle in there and I just assumed they taken her out with her phototherapy crib while I was in the toilet,” Beth claimed. “They nurses told me they had her there for a while because she’s been crying a lot,” she continued.
“My instant reaction was that somebody had stolen my baby”
It was only later when Beth went to change the infant’s diaper that she discovered she was actually doting on a boy, and not her little daughter. “My instant reaction was that somebody had stolen my baby,” the mom recalled. “I was absolutely terrified after four years of infertility. I thought I’d lost my baby after giving birth to her.”
Beth doesn't even know if the other mother knew about this situation
Beth believes the midwives mistakenly mixed-up baby Isabelle and a newborn boy at the hospital, but she’s unclear whether the other child’s mother ever realized. “The other mom was asleep on a completely different ward from me and I don’t know if she ever knew that the baby was passed to me,” she explained.
