Hospital personnels back then must have a hand in switching those babies KNOWINGLY. They're playing with the lives of those people involved! It's sick!
I just did the AncestryDNA thinking it would come back mostly German. My whole life my entire family including my grandfather always talked about how we are German. Both of my parents said we were German. My results came back 80% British. We were all shocked! My aunt did it and got similar results. Not sure how the “we’re German” thing came about but somehow our whole family was wrong.
Same exact thing happened to me. My dad always said that he was 100% German and my mom always thought she was a little bit German as well. My results came back only 5% German!! My grandparents on my moms side also took an ancestry dna test and it linked me to them so I know that I wasn’t switched at birth but I still have a lot of questions about how my DNA is so different from what I thought.
Dana K Well it depends on how much chromosomes your parents gave you. You get half from both your parents. So your farther DNA only gave you 5% German.
The British Royal Family is Germanic. It was because of World War I, the royal family legally changed their surname (last name) from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the English sounding Windsor. So you can be German with British Roots
I've learned from many RU-vid vids that if I ever have a baby, I'm demanding to have them dressed in something I brought, toe nail painted, special ankle band, let me draw a star or heart or something on their hospital band, etc. just SOMETHING to make it really hard to take home the wrong child.
Hmmmm now I’m scared that I was switched at birth 😂 I mean my parents have black curly hair and brown eyes same with my brother but I have strait brown hair freckles and blue eyes so I am worried 😂
I work on our family genealogy and have had several members take DNA Tests for me. My paternal grandmother never knew her father but was told it was a male cousin of her mother's from Texas. Through DNA testing and genealogy work, we have confirmed which male cousin is my paternal grandmother's father. His mother's line DNA connections now make sense to us in how we are related.
Oh god I want to be tested too. I know a friend that had a different outcome too. She was supposed to be of German ancestry, it turned out she was of Italian ancestry, lol
My mother's third child got switched in the hospital, September 1961. But she knew instantly that the child was not hers, because the child the nurse brought her looked nothing like her two older children. Happily, we got our real sister back before Mom left the hospital. :D
I did. Family lore is crap. My grandma always claimed that she was half Native American, but she has blue eyes so I called bull crap and took the DNA test and I'm only 0.1% Native American and the test said my closest likely 100% Native American ancestor was a 4th-7th great grandparent. I started doing a family tree before I did the DNA test and the first family member I couldn't track was a 4th great grandmother. Proof I was right and I can say HAA! I like being right! xD
When my baby was 18 hours old the nurses came in & gave me a tiny little baby boy. I refused to touch him and asked for MY Baby. They said 'this is your baby'. I'm like, 'Yes this baby does look alot like my baby, but this baby is tiny. My son is 8lbs. 14oz , and I Want My Baby'. Well I marched down to maternity a went to pick up My Son. I said, 'See, they look alike but My Baby is much bigger'. They finally checked & weighed the boys and gave me My Son. Later my mother said that, that had happened when she had my brother Tim, at the Vancouver General Hospital. Only they gave her a girl and told her she didn't have a girl, she had a boy. Strange how people who are trained would make such mistakes.
When I was a 1st time mom in 1989 I wondered how I could tell that this child was mine, before they took her away to go to the nursery. My outer toes are clubbed., one on one side and two on the other, I looked at the babies feet and identical to mine. Same with my son in 1991.
My Mother had the same thing happen to her. When I was born they used forceps and it left a small mark. They gave her a baby girl and she looked and said this is not my baby because my baby has a mark on the left side of her face from the forceps. The nurses went back to the nursery and came back with me and Mom recognized the me and the nurses could see the mark. She pleaded with my Mom not to say anything as it would cause a lot of trouble. My Mom mentioned it several times as I was growing up. Mom said if it was not for that mark she might have gone home with the wrong baby.
I work at a hospital, and this is a huge concern for all of us. We put armbands on the baby and mom that have the same name and ID number. We have to check it before and after, and after checking we make sure the parents recognize the child as their baby. Check the armband EVERY time.
Similar case happened a few years ago in my country. A dad was laughed at because his daughter didn't look like him. They started a research and foud out that two baby girls were switched in the hospital. It was very traumatizing for both families because they were already emotionally attached to the girl they were raising. I think that after all these years emotional scars are healed and both families are still in touch.
Thank God hospitals are changing now. Your babies stay in the room with you until they've been tagged. It's a little harder to make mistakes when they have the ankle bracelet on.
My mom found out her dad wasn't her dad last year via ancestry and 23 and me .......we still are in shock her biological dad and her are now working through alot and communicating. Crazy crazy all these stories that come out
brileeka I think she was making fun of the fact that Megyn kept mentioning “Irish Catholic” as though Catholicism denotes racial heritage like Judaism does.
That's true, but what I mean is her interviewing style is cold, you don't feel she has any empathy for the people she is interviewing. It feels like she is trying to seem human.
Often the problem with learning your children were switched is that you want the one you lost plus you want the one you've bonded to...yet you can't have both & must give one up. In this case if the family had known, they could have adopted the other & had both. Soooo sad that this mistake was never uncovered earlier.
Omg, this is so sad that her dad was raised in an orphanage. I'm glad her dad had them and they loved him very much. I was so paranoid when I had my first born. She was taking away from me to get all these kinds of test because she was under weight. Luckily, she had a unique birth mark.
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I used to think my father was crazy (er) when he’d tell the story of drawing a little pen line on my ankle and then following nurses around the hospital after I was born. (I was a month early, placenta detached or something, not the point, so they were running around with me getting my oxygen levels up.) But now I can appreciate it, because I went back to that hospital and they absolutely could’ve lost babies, they barely could find a stethoscope.
My dad was almost switched at birth my dad was brought to my nana and woman who was in the bed cross from her said thats not ur baby my nana was like no it is and ignored her wasnt until she went to change babys diaper and realised the baby was actually a girl and that the 2 babies looked alike lol
My children were born in the late sixties and early seventies and they had a bracelet with their surname on it right away. I think baby switching happens less frequently nowadays.
I think I should get a DNA too, just in case I’m not my parents child!! My sisters always treat me like the black sheep. My parents got divorced and my maternal grandparents raised me. My mom has always treated me like a stranger, at least that’s the way I feel all the time. She doesn’t treat her other 5 kids like that is just with me.
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I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe for your own sake you could get a DNA test but it's not going to change anything. You're special and valuable regardless of whether someone says you are.
This just shows that DNA does NOT have anything to do with who we ultimately become as people (and who we are raised by & ultimately choose to love). Each person is free. Your DNA does not rule your mind, nor your heart.💚💛💜
Starla Rose Really? Either I'm stupid or you're very good at reading between the lines because I've reread it several times just to make sure I'm not missing anything and I still come back to my original point that DNA is massively important and that race is a social construct, neither of which the OP came close to addressing in her OP.
Shell Chenonceau actually, we are some 6 very very similar siblings to our dad and we never grew up together untill his funeral.. we laugh the same way, same interests and much more.. we are definitely more similar to the dad we hardly met, than the family we lived with (mum and her bf)
OMG.... Her poor grandfather. Maybe they have no regrets, but I imagine the grandfather who was orphaned when he actually had a caring family instead of an absent one would have, if he would have known..
@Brenda Baker Tell us how you really feel, but in lower caps. Capitals indicate yelling, and make you and your message crazy, rude, and obnoxious. People like you are why I left church
@@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim I know it is hard, because I have been there. But, please don't let imperfect, misguided people keep you from the Lord. Ignore them. We are not there for them, anyway.
Honestly not that weird, it was probably more common than we know. It is why we take the precautions we do to identify babies **because** babies did get switched at birth in the past.
I've had my DNA done and my ethnicity wasn't what I was expecting. My brother also had his done and his shows a bit of Jewish and I don't. So it's coming from my male side. Which we don't know anything about since my 3rd great grandfather is an unknown. Another relative had his done. I contacted him for more info and he said he was adopted. But due to the shared matches we had I knew what line he was from. In the meantime I contacted some other relatives and had him in contact with his birth family within 2 days. And it was a very happy ending.
Foster care? It was an orphanage he was brought up in. What I wonder is where did the portrait picture come from of the man with the three children? If this was his father, why was he in an orphanage? Where are the other two children?
Really confusing, although i think i understand most of it. I found out i have a half sister from my dad through her doing an ancestry DNA test last year. We were able to meet a couple months later. I love her! I always wanted a sister, i have 4 brothers!
It is super sad he ended up in an orphanage since if he went home with his real family he would have had a great childhood. And the other guy got super lucky to not be in his shoes right?
This just goes to show that your "heritage" really means nothing. You can live your life fine without this whole "I am a specific ting" that is supposed to determine your life. You just are you.
I have never witnessed a colleague "playing God". What do you think is in it for them? A lawsuit, suspended license and possible criminal liability, that´s what.
Babies being switched at birth has been going on for years. Look it up. Psychopaths could get a big "control and power" high from disrupting other's lives when no one can trace it back to them. That's how they operate. Yes, I have a degree in Psychology, but it doesn't take a psychologist to see that many healthcare workers could be capable of doing this...as well as actually deliberately taking lives in a hospital setting, as happens quite often. All that is at stake if getting caught is what makes it so exciting to these types of people.
I was nearly switched at birth! There was another baby girl born the same day, and back then, they didn't have private rooms. The nurse brought me and the other baby in, and handed me to mom's roommate and the other girl (whos name is Kelly) to my mom. Mom said "This is not my baby. My baby is bald. This one has a head full of hair." She looked at the other lady's baby and saw that they had been switched. No one reported it or anything since it was made right. My mom worked for years as a cake decorator at Kroger. She and I look just alike, so i wonder if the switch hadn't been found, if i would see her at the grocery store and feel a connection.
Iam a darkskin black women.I gave birth to girl her father is Irish...I aready seen her complexion in a dream..When she came out she was red..When they cleaned her off she was pal white...The doctors was stunned..
Lol I've gone down a rabbit hole watching these DNA test videos. Thank goodness I look so much like my mom and dad, otherwise they'd have me stressed. 😂
I’m confused... how on earth did they come up as relatives if their fathers were switched at the hospital? If you’re switched at the hospital you don’t have family genetics that would come up in a test like that. Is anyone else with me or did I miss something?
@@sualee3332 when you do a dna test with any of these companies they only connect you to people whom you are related to, if their fathers were switched at birth and no relation they wouldn’t have been connected as both boys had different parents.
@@sualee3332 no offense but DUH!! Yes there is a match for them being relatives but the men were switched at birth one was Jewish and one was Irish so pretty sure the men were not related. The two women in this video were daughters of the switched men. We are wondering how they are related.
This is sad and amazing. When my daughter was born she was the only baby born in the hospital that week. However, we were given armbands immediately and my husband never left her, not even for a minute. The fear of a switch was a big thing in our little town hospital. Even if it wasn't possible......
No real Irish person eats corn beef I mean for the love of all that is holy you may die from eating that you’ve got the biggest lake fish pond in the world all around you I can’t do better than that of the nasty beef that taste like yuck? I’m from Ireland and I think corn beef in America especially is absolutely disgusting
When I was born in 1964 and I had four sisters and by Brothers and they couldn't find my birth certificate when I was adopted later make sure wonder huh
It didn't start in Ireland, but it is certainly a part of Irish culture as of the 12th century. So even if it didn't start there, it still is an Irish tradition older than the United States.
My Mum had a 9 lb girl in a catholic maternity home in New Zealand in 1967. She got handed a tiny wee baby and she said to the nun that it was not her baby. We all have blue eyes, this baby had brown eyes and a swarthy skin. My sister was blond as my parents came from Sweden. Took three days before my sister was handed back. The other baby’s parents took my sister home and had her christened, wrong name off course. Finally my father went to our lawyer and things got straightened out. Nowadays they would be taken to court.
I'm sure this happened not infrequently in the past. The reason it *doesn't* happen commonly today is because of how very easy it is to have happen. Many newborns look fairly generic and there's a lot of chaos going-on in a Labour & Delivery ward: emergencies, shift changes, general business and, of course, the human carelessness that results in (sometimes fatal) medical errors. I've been at many births, and it's notable for the lengths everyone goes to "confirm" which baby belongs to which mother. There was a proposal, at one point, for DNA testing for all newborns, but this was quickly quashed - likely because of how many babies are born to fathers who are not, in fact, the biological dads (estimates are 4%, or 1-in-25 babies).
Back in medical school, on our genetics clerkship, almost 10% of patients turned out not to be the biological children of their registered fathers. Some of them know, some of them don´t, but if you are getting tested for any reason, proceed with care.
Agreed. Lots of implications for genetic testing; I now have patients worried after requesting their DNA be "tested" through services like 23andme, only to discover they're at increased risk for this-or-that unsavoury disease! As you say, "proceed with care"!
Moral of the Story...A Jew raised in an Orphanage after being seperated from Jew faimly will still be successful and his Daughter will still become a Computer Scientist!
The story of the jewish baby switched to be then abandoned by the wrong mum before 1 yo was a very bitter one. He could have lived a beautiful life with his real family, with his real mum and in a comfortable environment. I told this story to my dad last night at dinner after watching this video and he cried. I m glad Alice was able to reconnect with her grandma.
This is so sad. My father has A Portuguese last name, my grandfather tells tale of his dad coming over from the Azores gpop had very sky blue eyes & my mother who is Nordic always had a hard time with him being Portuguese. So my son's recently did DNA tests there is nothing. So now I have to check & then my cousins it looks like gpop. May have been born to Nordic parents that added a Portuguese name to there's .The mystery will be solved both islands have great church baptism & marriage records going back to around the year 1100.
They should have done a better job differentiating the use of the term Jewish. They were using it as though it were. Merely a physical race. When in fact Jewish is a faith. Judaism is a monotheistic religion that stems from Hebrew roots, descendent of the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That should have been clarified.
Being raised Irish when you're not, but still feeling the food and traditions are a part of you makes sense, because you were raised in them. Blood is part of who you are, but so is the culture you were raised in.
I was so nervous about this so I never kept an eye out of my child. They weighted her and showed me the baby. They put her in a little bed at the end of the room. And moved my bed next to hers.. Then a nurse placed her in my bed and moved me to the hall.. I got the bed of the window and I was sure nobody would take her by mistake. But others used to put cribs together which wasn't allowed and the nurses would go crazy always checking the brazalete of the hand and leg...
I looked @ mine when they came out. Unless you suffer from short term memory you shouldn’t forget what your baby looks like in such a short period of time.
