Two sets of identical twins are reunited with each other after they were separated and switched at birth over 20 years ago. CNN's Brooke Baldwin has more.
He’s a story teller haha he needs visual aid for himself not others lol.. hence why he brought up more specifics about where they lived. Story tellers need there visual aids.
No that's not what happened. One was searching Facebook to see his own twin (the butcher) and saw that he had a twin brother who looked like his "fraternal" twin brother and that's when they realized they were two sets of identical twins switched at birth. Get it?!
How insane must that be though to learn in one day? 1) I was switched at birth. 2) My parents aren't my birth parents 3) My faternal twin isn't my twin. 4) And he isn't biologically my brother. 5) I have an identical twin 6) I have parents and family I have never met 7) My name shouldn't even be my name. 8) I almost lived a completely different life. WOW.
There are so many stories like this about babies switched at birth. It's more than a little disturbing. Either the nurses aren't paying enough attention, or this was done deliberately.
@@afrilS It could be a lot of things, maybe he just happens to look different, mom cheated, or your parents were given the wrong baby at the hospital. A DNA test would solve it. See if you can get him to unknowingly give a DNA sample and test it against your own DNA, to see if both parents are the same. If you think he'll agree, ask him to take the test with you.
That’s why when women give birth they should assign a family member to watch and follow the baby. That person should not worry about the mum, and only focus on the baby. Watch what the medical team is doing and what medication/injections they are giving the baby. Making sure the baby is not switched.
The good thing about the story is that both of them thought each other was brothers but when they finally saw the real brother they all started to live together Now the bond is four strong
I had my identical twins in a hospital in the United States almost 21 years ago. My twins weighed nearly 6 lbs and their hospital ID bracelets and anklets kept falling off of them. The nurse brought my twins from the NICU to me and she looked at the twins who were in the same hospital baby bed thing together and said she didn't know which baby was which, and just slid the ID tags on them and guessed. And, she was wrong. I knew already how to tell them apart because of identifying markers on them. I can see how this could happen anywhere because of the bracelet ID issues I experienced when I had my own twins.
When I was born and my mom got me back after I was taken for a shower, she was convinced I'd been accidentally switched. Luckily, my dad had noticed a scratch on my toe (that I did to myself before I was born). But I think she was only fully convinced after a few years, when random people kept commenting on how I'm a carbon copy of her. We could never see it ourselves, but I've started to notice some similarities as I age.
At the end you hear the reporters talking about the Jim and Jim twins who grew separated yet had their crazy similarities. If you think they did it for show, look into twin research. Your genetic make-up plays a crazy role in your life choices and experiences. So much so that even growing up in different environments could lead to very similar choices. Your outlook on life might be different, but you'll be surprised how similar twins who were separated at birth grow up to be.
I've heard of hospitals running experiments where they separate twins at birth. But separating twins AND swapping them with another set of twins to pass as fraternal twins? This is so bizarre? And scary. Glad they all found each other
The fruit really helped. There was no way I could understand what happened with both sets of identical twins by just photos of them. I needed this situation reduced to differently coloured fruit!
I'm so happy my children stayed in the room with me the whole time. I never understood why a baby would be taken into a room away from mom and put with a bunch of other babies.
@@Trini2DeBone they tell you if your kids are identical or fraternal before birth. They look nothing a like and they seem to be both identical when you put them with the correct sibling. My babies are identical, I would know if one baby wasn't mine
Wish I could see pictures of them as babies. They must have looked more alike then. Their adult features are so strong, it's hard to believe they could be switched without their parents realizing.
Most babies look like aliens at birth. And even as infants it’s hard to tell if a baby takes after mom or dad until their features come in, which is more towards toddler years. Even then all that baby fat prevents us from seeing more pronounced features. Then there’s the fact that some genes skip a generation or recessive genes, which may explain the one random baby with blonde hair or blue eyes in a family with brunette hair or brown eyes. It’s kind of crazy when you think about it. Unless you conduct a DNA test early on, it can take a few years before you start to realize that baby doesn’t look like either mom or dad. And by then you’ve bonded with the child you’ve raised.
@@_Shinique Having a DNA test at birth does not prevent a switch. Most laboratories usually process the test and get the DNA result ready between 3 to 12 weeks, counting from the day they receive your sample. Meaning if a switch occurs after the sample is taken, then even when the DNA result come back positive, you're still bringing the wrong baby home.
I thought they would use say a green apple and red apple, and melon and watermelon or something, so we could distinguish between William and Wilbur etc.
One of them, i think Carlos, took it harder than the others, but he was reassured that he would still be loved by his brother he grew up with so gradually accepted the situation.
I am sssooo glad and happy they are living together! It's as if they are a group of 4 brothers now, with nearly the same birthday. They could have all been born on the same day, as well.
It happens all the time. Just wait, in 20 years or so there will some declassified government document admitting they did it on purpose to hundreds of twins and they're really sorry about it now after the fact.
Three Identical Strangers documented how this sort of research has gone on for years, and there are dozens, if not hundreds of people around the world living with the wrong family. It's terrifying. Surely, it cannot be that difficult to keep twins together, with so many 'mistakes'.
shenoir In “Three Identical Strangers”, it was absolutely an intentional separation. The three brothers were born to a single mother who gave them up for adoption. The psychiatrists running the experiment did not tell the families that the babies were actually triplets, and they requested to interview and meet with the children and videotape them as part of their experiment, but they just told the parents that they were doing research on adopted children, not twins or triplets. On a sidenote, it wasn’t mentioned in the documentary, but there were actually four boys, but one of the babies died at birth. When they found out about the experiment, they were furious. One of the adoptive parents talked about how The baby they adopted had intense separation anxiety. He would just sit in the crib and bang his head on the side. They didn’t know why he was doing it, but now they know it’s because he missed his brothers. Truly irresponsible and unforgivable treatment of these children, in the name of science..
I'd be so different... Having a sibling with whom you have all the memories but no blood relation and then finding a sibling with whom you have blood relation but no memories. I guess each of them would equally call all four collectively as brothers
The hospital should be sued... for emotional distress and damages, they should not be able to get away with doing something like this...because there are protocols in place for not making a mix-up. This Hospital needs to be investigated because this is probably not the first mix-up.
umm twins or not, they can switch anyone. I believe twins are less likely to be switched though because if one baby doesn't look like its twin sibling then you'd be able to catch that. although one can never be too careful, either way because it can happen just like in this case and many others ;)
RetroGuy76 it’s not 3rd world. Do you see the technology they have and the nice clothes they are wearing? Plus there is no such thing as third world countries. There are more developed countries and less developed countries.
A'ishah Mehmood hey my son is half Italian & half Black and he popped out white as snow. I told my mom to fallow him all the way to the nursery no matter what. That was 27yrs ago and I wouldn't change a thing.❤👼❤👼
These twins must experience total mind fu@k at first, but then they all gained extra brothers. Hope they don't think of the past and what could've been but look forward to the future and enjoy each other.
Columbia, where the doctors get their degrees and registration off corn flakes boxes. Any doctor on delivering two babies, who can not tell the difference between fraternal or identical twins, deserves to be buried under the hospital. Count the placentas you morons.
I’ll be so pissed if I was born into a rich family and end up being raised poor. Hahahah Edit: I am reading these comments, and there are people stating “Happiness “ is more important... Ummm, why do people correlate money with unhappiness? Are all rich people unhappy? Lmao I wonder how many babies ended up with wrong families from this hospital
univision or whatever needs to pick up this story ASAP because this story is just waiting to be told. ... and gasped, cried, slapped, passed out, and celebrated in spanish
I mean, it wasn't that hard to follow. One set of "fraternal" twins had very English sounding names that started with W and the other had Spanish names.
Long before "Big Business", William Shakespeare wrote the story of two sets of identical twins, separated when babies, and reunited as adults. The play is called "The Comedy of Errors", and has a happier ending than this story because they are also reunited with both parents in the end.
It was to me when it came to him telling the story of how they meet. Like, namewise. They could of just let the pic with their names run while he explained how they met too.
Listen to it without seeing him use the fruit and then tell me how easy it is to follow. If someone told me that with no visuals, I would keep asking them to repeat who is who.
Wow i was sad for the guy that their mother died before they knew about what really happened. The good thing is they are 4 brothers now and live together .
It doesn't just happen with twins. Just more with twins. I'm the oldest and I was adopted. From oldest to youngest I have 4 other siblings with my traits. My oldest little brother and I are both ambidextrous and he's a tattoo artist and I'm a sneaker customizer. From the time I was 15 till the time I was 21 I worked in a hair salon my little sister owns her own beauty spa, when I was in highschool I played every sport they had for girls and I played varsity in every one. Softball, tennis, volleyball (not in the same years as tennis), and basketball, my next little brother down plays rugby for Guam. My baby brother almost went to Juliard for the flute and I played the saxophone. We all have something in common. So much that I can talk to each one and really understand their passions. It's amazing. I found them on my son's birthday 2 weeks before my 31st and they lived all the way across the country. Me in NC them in CA.
+Angela Zapata girl something happened in the hospital and twins born on the same day as me and my sister actually got switched and then when we had the DNA test when we were 8 and found my real twin.
Heartbreaking... This "switch" cost these 4 men so much! Some gained in ways, but they all lost in having their true family all together. I hope they all stay close and make something really amazing out of this, like some sort of business tht uses all of their skills.
Deliciousness so they were all together, both sets of twins got split up and then switched, then the other set moves closer to the other twins and a worker saw one of them that looks like her worker and then she shows him a pic and he searches on fb
when I was 12 I had a sister who was just born and I remember my mum being very insistent before labour that the baby should never be left alone and my dad was to keep an eye on it at all times including when they go off to clean the baby. till this day 14 years on my mum tells me and all her 4 other girls never ever leave a newborn alone. makes sense now
I feel so bad for William...he did not get to meet his mother!!!! 😭😭😭 I feel so bad for the mom for not knowing the truth!!! 💔 It's sad that millions of babies are being switched at birth!!!!
@@aleeshasarr actually it is millions of babies millions and millions of babies are being switched at birth and half of the time majority of people don't even know cuz remember a lot of babies were not kept with their mom they were quickly whisked away
I still feel like if I saw myself walking down the street, I'd not recognise myself. I wanna see a story like that where they themselves see each other first
I know 3 guys who are identical triplets (4th one was still born) As adults they moved away from each other, they hadn't seen each other for about 3 years and arranged to meet up at a hotel in London, Stephen the last to arrive got a very strange look from the door man, but eager to see his brothers he didn't stop to question it. Once inside he understood the look. Not only were they all wearing the same clothes, they also had the same hairstyle and same moustache.
@@MK-rk4no I think he is saying that he could of believed they were brothers by blood. As when you are with people you adopt similar traits and styles sometimes. I'm assuming he is saying because of this they looked like brothers to him and they were brothers in a way of course
@@MK-rk4no Each parent(s) thought they took home a set of fraternal twins (since they obviously didnt take home twins that were identical), so the pairs of men that grew up with each other believed they were actually "fraternal twins". The commenter was saying that these sets of "fraternal twins" that grew up with each other have more similar style to each other than they do with their actual identical twins.
What if someone switched them on purpose to conduct a 20 years long research about the twins’ different personalities due to different environments? Basically, nature vs nurture. Mindblown.
