The hospitals position is clearly ridiculous. To say there is no evidence staff were responsible is nonsense and them trying to not admit liability. But one of the men has the bracelet that has the wrong name on it and someone put that on him.
Here’s the original article instead of Yahoo blogspam:
https://apnews.com/article/dna-birth-switch-hospital-lawsuit-41e56f62fd6b8bb0afce8afc479ce7a8
Wait there were only two babies born in the hospital that day. And they fucked it up. Did the nurse flip a coin or something?
likely grabbed the nearest baby they can get thier hands on.
Were the respective fathers or anyone in the room when these babies were born?
As a father of 3, I can recall in detail what each of my children looked like at birth and could even pick them out in the nursery and NICU.
The fact no one even bothered to look let alone remember what they looked like at birth irks me to no end.
Dad’s used to smoke a cigar in the other room until the child turned ten or needed to be hit
If they’re 38, that makes them born around 1988 and their parents firmly in GenX (1965-1980) territory.
Yes, Boomers did that dumb shit, but Xer Men in general were ‘Metrosexuals’, taking on tasks at home originally only designated for wives and genuinely tried to parent.
As an Xer myself whose kids are nearly 25, I call bullsht on that lame excuse. They sound like shitty parents on both sides.
Things move slower in different places, I’m betting 38 years ago in North Dakota dudes were not metro sexual, a term which by the way came out in the mid 2000s to describe men who groomed themselves.
I see your point, but imagine anyone you know who was ten years older than you and from a more rural area.
I don’t know about the US, but the parents of my peers (East Germany) recalled that the fathers were actively discouraged to enter the delivery room.
I have family in Frankfurt und Bad Hersfeld, Germany who will absolutely agree with you, but this happened in the USA.
These guys were born in 1988, a time when movies like Mrs. Doubtfire and Tootsie and and and were showing how men can be different; to be better. The lines between parental jobs were absolutely in the process of being blurred and their Dads were either idiots or unavailable.
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
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.
I find it ridiculous that they are both suing. One of them probably got a better life out of switch.
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