Baby Girls Switched At Birth Are Reunited With Mums After Chance Meeting At Blundering Hospital!
Maria Lorena Gerbeno and Veronica Tejada only realised they had been given the wrong babies when they met by chance three weeks later.
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Two mums have been reunited with their daughters – three weeks after a hospital gave them the wrong babies.
The pair only discovered the blunder when they returned to the clinic for the girls’ first check-up and got chatting.
The mix-up happened when the infants were taken from their mothers shortly after they were born.
Maria Gerbeno, 37, had a nagging suspicion the baby she ended up with was not hers. Doctors had told her the new arrival, delivered by C-section, weighed 6lb 8oz.
But clinic staff presented her with an 8lb 4oz girl delivered by breech birth.
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Lawyer Maria said: “I told them that could not be but they said I must have misunderstood. I never got any answers.”
Suspicious, but unable to get to the bottom of her fears, days later she attended the clinic for a routine checkup.
There, at the same time, was fellow new mum Veronica Tejada.
The two began comparing baby weights. The two children, born on the same day, matched up to the ounce.
Maria filed a criminal complaint and asked a judge to order a DNA test.
The results confirmed the mums had been sent home with each other’s offspring.
They kept hold of the wrong babies while they were waiting for conclusive proof.
Maria, who has two other children, said: “I spent three weeks with a baby that was not my daughter but I gave her all my love and knew that the other mom would be doing the same.”
On Monday the Maria and Veronica met in court and the babies were switched back to their rightful mums.
Both sets of parents are now considering legal action against the clinic in San Juan, Argentina.
The private clinic is reported to have admitted a mistake took place and is said to be cooperating with the investigation.
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