Baby Switched at Birth Back Home

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ABC News

8 жыл бұрын

Mercy Casanalles was given the wrong baby after giving birth in El Salvador.

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@KCM1 8 жыл бұрын

I'd sue the hospital for millions of dollars

@fakeapplestore4710 7 жыл бұрын

Carly Kennedy it's el salvador we're talking about here. they don't have millions

@Arequ517 7 жыл бұрын

Lady Heart I guess you didn't read the part about her NOT HAVING A CHOICE. She was in the US on a visa and had to go back home.

@motherintoronto 7 жыл бұрын

Lady Heart - She didn't have citizenship. She would've been deported near delivery if she had stayed. You can't be sure they'll send you back to your own country given America's deportation history, I wouldn't trust they'd make sure I got home. 'England, Ireland... meh close enough. What's the difference? You people are so picky.' She's from El Salvador but she could end up in Mexico or Guatemala with no money, family support or access to health care. At least in El Salvador she had a base.

@jennywinter3025 7 жыл бұрын

3rd world she can sue all day she won't get anything

@hoanpham2757 7 жыл бұрын

Carly Kennedy it's third 🌎 not USA We're so spoil here for our service and our hospitalities

@Losangelesangelica 8 жыл бұрын

So heart breaking .. I bet it was hard to give up the other baby :(

@sandraaa8496 6 жыл бұрын

K Avi she was devastated to say goodbye. I watched the whole documentary and she grew attached to the other little boy as well.

@ri.naniii 6 жыл бұрын

At least the other family got their child 🙂

@LiveLoveLaugh102310 5 жыл бұрын

xoxXOXO l saw the documentary as well. She was heartbroken that she wasn't able to say goodbye to the other baby

@melina4697 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@elinahamupunda580 5 жыл бұрын

K Avi i

@blueparasaurolophus6852 7 жыл бұрын

How stupid ! Can't believe these irresponsible nurses would fuck up this badly as to take one whole year of baby and parent bonding out their lives, so easily avoided with a little care while handling someone else's baby.

@H81234 7 жыл бұрын

This is why my sister insisted to keep her son in the same room as her the whole time. She didn't allow the nurses to take him to the nursery with the other babies.

@dianesingerman9650 2 жыл бұрын

I was the same way. Wouldn’t let my children leave the room. Have heard too many stories.

@lele1497 7 ай бұрын

Exactly it's just crazy screw up that could cause so much pain

@eliza1826 24 күн бұрын

@@dianesingerman9650or record it the whole thing, thankfully, in America people are too diverse so you’ll like tell if a white couple gets a black baby lol

@tinicoleofficial 6 күн бұрын

I don’t blame her! If I was to have a baby I’d do the same thing

@PFRC2010 7 жыл бұрын

A similar story like this one happen in Colombia, but they didn't realize the babies were swap. They only found out when the two babies, after they grew up became friends in university, and found out they were switch at birth when one of them started making comments how much she resemble her sister and her mother. After looking through family pictures, and finding out they had the same birthday and were born in the same hospital, did they realize what had happen. ....

@arthurvaladares6739 7 жыл бұрын

paula Casallas any article or video on this?

@m13m 6 жыл бұрын

www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/magazine/the-mixed-up-brothers-of-bogota.html

@sahyrarabael7904 6 жыл бұрын

Jo THAT'S giving me heavy chills...

@silentangel221 5 жыл бұрын

Maqbool It's a different story from the original comment but it's still worth a read. I had goosebumps reading it. I wonder if there's a video of that here(in youtube)?

@jesusfuentes9347 4 жыл бұрын

No such thing as coincidence them meeting in life

@fakeapplestore4710 7 жыл бұрын

switch at birth stories give me anxiety

@GuyFromTheSouth 4 жыл бұрын

Thats why I never let my baby outside of sight. I stayed with my son everywhere he went in the hospital.

@svasianfilipiname6603 3 жыл бұрын

How does that happen?! I mean, aren't babies born with their sex and the last name on their ID bracelet??! I know I was! And I was probably the prettiest baby there 😉.

@youtubecommentator6023 Ай бұрын

I think they do a lot of things now to prevent that....at least in the US. My son was cleaned and dressed in the same room as me and they immediately stuck a plastic bracelet on him that had a barcode that would tell everyone who his parents were and what room we were in. The only time he left the room is when we gave then permission to run some normal tests and even then we had my husband go with them. It's a seriously scary concept though

@cindyweir9645 7 жыл бұрын

Boy, we sure need some serious immigration reform. When you force a pregnant mother to leave because of bureaucratic paperwork requirements you see how ridiculous the rules are. So glad they got their son back.

@ladyvictoria8 6 жыл бұрын

The baby looks like the dad..The other couple surely had to know the baby was not theirs..

@amiragadotimtim8203 2 жыл бұрын

I say the same

@aftersexhighfives 2 жыл бұрын

The baby went into care, the one they had was to be put into state care. That is why it went unnoticed and we're the paperwork is difficult. The govt has custody of the tot.

@dinkster1729 22 күн бұрын

@@aftersexhighfives So why wasn't the American/Salvadorean couple allowed to keep both babies?

@aftersexhighfives 22 күн бұрын

@@dinkster1729 because that's not how that works.

@aftersexhighfives 22 күн бұрын

@@dinkster1729 they're human babies not pets

@rainefrancisco4137 7 жыл бұрын

Carbon copy of his dad! So adorable

@katiexxpaige 7 жыл бұрын

If the child's father is a US citizen he qualifies for citizenship immediately despite where he is born.

@sirenho 5 жыл бұрын

katiexxpaige the dad is British

@nancycampbellgibson2634 8 жыл бұрын

What a horrible thing to have happen to you. I hope everything works out well for all involved.

@melodramatic7904 7 жыл бұрын

Why wouldn't the government give the baby a passport and visa to go to his own country? That is strange. They should try and claim his US citizenship at the US embassy in el salvador, then he would have no trouble flying to the US. I gave birth in italy and claimed my baby's citizenship. The process was very easy and streamlined. They even let me apply for his passport at the same time.

@SkyyPiano 7 жыл бұрын

It's because the mother is not a US citizen.

@AriaCadence17 7 жыл бұрын

The father is presumably a us citizen and they're married. So if one parent is a citizen, the baby is automatically a citizen.

@michouomar7234 6 жыл бұрын

melodramtic7904 neither of his parents are us citizens. They meet through the Christian church they were serving that is why. The father is a British citizen not us citizen, but am sure after what they have been through they may get a green card😢😢

@Pacifica1 6 жыл бұрын

Baby isnt a USA citizen..born in el Salvador...duh..

@mybestlifepossible2576 5 жыл бұрын

@@AriaCadence17 not true for the baby if not born on US soil. You automatically become a citizen of the country you are born in . Unless you are military and give birth on a US military base. Also, because the husband is a citizen , does not make her s US citizen automatically. There is paperwork and documents to be filed to bring a foriegn bride here, not to make her a citizen.

@sweetgrannybuns2774 Жыл бұрын

Both the mother’s will forever carry those other babies in their hearts because in way those were each their babies, too. That had to be one of the hardest choices to make. Hopefully, now days they can do a DNA test on questioning situations like this as soon as possible before the parents get fully attached.

@brie3679 7 жыл бұрын

What a moral dilemma. I feel like if I was in this situation, it'd be near impossible for me to give up the child I'd been raising, despite it not being mine. But it'd also find it impossible not to want my own baby. I'd want to keep both. Which obviously isn't fair. So I'd at least ask that I still be in the child's life. Get updates of them regularly, and see them every now and again. But even that would be extremely hard.

@chickadee39 5 жыл бұрын

I agree hunni, sometimes people also forget there's the other mother going through this heartbreak.. Happy ending though..xx

@mcaskey358 3 жыл бұрын

Actually, this couple said, they expected to keep both and were heartbroken when they learned they couldn't. Lost in all of this is the fact that there is another family going through the exact same thing, thinking the exact same things, and being utterly ignored by the media.

@Alicewoods000 Жыл бұрын

I feel the same .......it's impossible to feel the attachment for a baby that is being raise as yours. Of course I wouldn't stop till I get my child but I'd consider the other baby also my child 😟

@eveyk.1204 Жыл бұрын

It's better to return the babies. There is a story about two boys from South Africa who got switched at birth and the parents found out after a few years but decided not to switch them back and to keep in contact. But one family was quite rich and the other really poor and the boy the was supposed to grow up rich but didn't resented his adoptive mom and got into crime. Then he left to be with his birth mom but the other boy wasn't happy about it. Then he left her too and stopped speaking for years until he had his own child and then reconnected. The whole family was destroyed at that point and the mothers both said that they wish they had switched them back when they had the opportunity.

@artisticskillz01 8 ай бұрын

The South African boys. That was switched at birth. One went to a rich family and the other one to a poor single mother. At 20 months. Both mums found out the blunder when the rich mum was going through a paternity test by her husband and, in doing so, neither wad the parent. Both mums regret not swapping then as it severely caused a lot of damage, especially to the one who grew up struggling because he missed out on his real family.

@telegnes4500 7 жыл бұрын

Thank god. They got the baby.

@marli1904 5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@maebellelee4573 3 жыл бұрын

Poor child, he was lost. Praise God, he is found!

@aishagranger1391 7 жыл бұрын

It must have been hard for the babies too. He looks like he's looking for his other parents.

@johnmalory26 5 жыл бұрын

You can clearly see they gave her the wrong baby, and thank God she saw it right away, unlike in that gullible show.

@muslimahsista 4 жыл бұрын

Both babies are so cute In Islam if you breastfeeding (a child that is not yours) it will be like your own child and they will be like brothers and sisters, and the love between you and that child will never end. Thanks for sharing.

@ggaffgaff966 2 жыл бұрын

If his dad is a US citizen...the baby is automatically a US citizen. Why wouldn’t he be able to stay, even without his Salvadoran passport? Kids already American

@sephinew3333 3 жыл бұрын

The mother looked heartbroken still. She loved both babies

@brittneybrommels8497 3 жыл бұрын

Heart breaking but also so happy at the same time that they have there bio baby boy back . He is so so handsome . ♥️

@Sharon-cm2os 3 жыл бұрын

Anyway he was raised well. His emotional responses are very good.

@infinitelady 7 жыл бұрын

Moses is so cute and adorable, awww.

@8Ayelet Жыл бұрын

So grateful you found your son and that he is back safe with you! Praise God for your wonderful blessing! God bless Moses and your whole family ❤️🙏🏼✝️💕🌿

@briannaevaro9745 7 жыл бұрын

Omg he's so cute 👶🏽

@vieirafamily8954 7 жыл бұрын

I don't get how this still happens... they need to strap an identification bracelet on any baby before they ever leave moms room.

@CharlestonChica 22 күн бұрын

Mom and baby need to each wear bracelets with matching barcodes.

@stacybell4305 7 жыл бұрын

he is soooooo handsome 👨

@amazingsupergirl7125 6 жыл бұрын

He looks just like his mom 💕

@Crossing-Blades 3 жыл бұрын

This is the only situation where a women can say she’s not sure the child is not hers. The only situation, a 1 in a million chance to feel the same situation as a man. I wish women could appreciate that fact more then they actually do. Glad the baby is ok though.

@mysterioustiings9909 3 жыл бұрын

Jacob and Moses are both so adorable

@magnumopiss244 2 жыл бұрын

The darker one isn’t cute, only the lighter one is

@NK-Y Жыл бұрын

@@magnumopiss244 What????

@user-vj5qr7pp9q 7 ай бұрын

@@magnumopiss244 honestly melanin in babies is so cute. I've always found people with more melanin to be more attractive. I'm white fyi

@bethcombs7708 2 ай бұрын

Im a nurse! This is so pathetic. My kids are grown but in this day and age i think i would stick my own identity bracelet on my childs wrist or ankle the minute he was born, perhaps with a tracker too. Mistakes happen all the time, if you ever have a sick family member, I suggest you have a family member sit with them 24/7 and question everything they give them. A nurse started to hang blood on my dad and my mom questioned it. It was meant for another patient on another floor. My dad would have died if he got that!

@karenbcz22 7 жыл бұрын

That's f*d up. They should sue the hospital. Of course, it's El Salvador, so maybe nothing will come of it.

@shane_asylum 4 жыл бұрын

Poor child doesn't know who those people are. He keeps looking around for the parents he knew. Good luck.

@sahramohamed4307 7 жыл бұрын

Thats a cute baby

@alancross5457 4 жыл бұрын

God bless this couple and the Baby.

@AGM-ts5bb 6 жыл бұрын

So glad you loved the baby until he went home.

@desiree7262 8 жыл бұрын

beautiful baby

@jsuncha66 3 ай бұрын

I just found out through DNA test, I was switched at birth at a military hospital in Munsan, S Korea during the Vietnam War. I'm so emotionally and mentally distraught. I have no where to turn to. I feel lost.

@eileenchang2096 3 жыл бұрын

It have been so emotional and hard to articulate feelings around thus....

@faythmomto5 7 жыл бұрын

Why the hell wouldn't they give the child back?

@gabrielalulaa 7 жыл бұрын

faythmomto5 I read that they had to... they wanted to keep both but they couldn't

@OversizeLoad1 6 жыл бұрын

I saw the documentary and it seems like the lady had just grown attached to the child she had been raising as her own. So she still wanted her own child with her, but wanted to know the one she was giving up would be okay and she would only know that, by keeping him with her. Wrong, but that's the only way she would know her other non biological son would be ok. I know it's a weird connotation, but you know how people are. They feel that "if you want something done the right way you have to do it yourself." I'm pretty sure it was hard for the other lady too to give up the baby that wasn't hers.

@generalnikkerson 5 жыл бұрын

Well, the parents that raised their child loved it to, I presume. Its hard to give up the child you thought was yours and it scares the kids for life, if you just rip them away from the only parents they thought where theirs. So usually the families keep raising the kid they got, and visit their own, as not to permanently scar and traumatize the children. In this case, the kid being in El Salvador, that is of course not possible.

@InMyPOV2u 3 жыл бұрын

Such s wonderful and loving couple. (On a different note: Anyone else notice the Linda Carter similarity?)

@BullockVivi Жыл бұрын

Moms,have your babies in the US and THEN get them a passport from your home country. Passports usually guarantees nationality. Both my daughters were born in The United Stares and have their Brazilian passports. It can be safer. So happy she hot her boy back. She is a strong determined woman!

@ladze77 7 жыл бұрын

This is still sad though but am happy it's sorted out

@trueloveconquers7039 Жыл бұрын

Why are these hospital nurses or workers making this kind of mistake??? They should be fired. Because of their negligence, a lot of family are suffering till today.

@mcaskey358 3 жыл бұрын

I recall a story in the US about two boys who were switched. They didn't learn the truth until the boys were like 3 or 4 years old. So they decided not to switch them back, but instead raise them in each other's lives. The problem was one family was very wealthy, the other was an impoverished single mother. The poor child grew up very resentful seeing all the things that should have been his, but wasn't. The wealthy boy, oh my god, callous, uncaring, and arrogant as hell. He didn't give a damn about the other kid, or the fact that he was technically living this kid's life. It ended up ruining all their relationships. They did an update, the poor kid had gotten his life on track, but he wasn't in contact with either of his mothers. He was married and had an infant son. He flat out said, If his baby was switched, he don't ever want to know. From his experience it would just cause unnecessary suffering and he could never love another child as much as he loved this one.

@bluejay2867 2 ай бұрын

theyre lucky they found out early rather than later where it wouldve been more difficult to switch the kids

@Christinalovespink91 4 жыл бұрын

Awe what a little cutie pie.

@swethagajula9154 7 жыл бұрын

praise God...

@salmahshak3654 4 жыл бұрын

MOSES IS SO CUTE ❤

@mcaskey358 3 жыл бұрын

This is the second video I have seen of this situation. At no point do they talk about the other family. In fact this couple said they expected to keep BOTH babies, as they had bonded with the other baby too. And they were heartbroken when they were told they had to return the child to his family. It's all being treated like, this couple was horribly wronged, and there's no talk about the El Salvador family at all. You do realize they went through the same doubt, worry, concern, fear, heartbreak, as this couple. But no one seems to give a damn about them. At best they don't matter at all, and at worst they are potential kidnappers. Why has no one bothered to talk to that family?

@vicky-yc2wc 4 жыл бұрын

Jacob and Moses. How beautiful both biblical names protected by the hand of God.

@augustvukosovich4683 3 жыл бұрын

That baby looks white. The other baby didnt. Couldn't the other family tell that their baby didn't have brown eyes and skin? Interesting.

@cutiecupcake6939 7 жыл бұрын

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!:3

@riverszenonian70 Жыл бұрын

I would struggle to get over my time lost with the job, the precious bonding time when he was brand new gone, but yet I have trouble letting certaint things go lol

@andyg669 8 жыл бұрын

It is like the show Switch at brith

@loren-sh4xq 7 жыл бұрын

Andrea Fun time it will be a film at some point, there's many bee done, but this will be elsalvado and the U.S and trying to get him him home. :)

@skypeters3034 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah except this is real life

@ggminajj 6 жыл бұрын

Andy G yeah

@jessicag4069 7 жыл бұрын

I wanted to see the other baby

@Eszra 7 жыл бұрын

You see both. The one in the still photo's is the other child. The right baby is the one at the airport.

@MadbutBad07 7 жыл бұрын

1:00 see the wrong baby has darker skin and eyes

@miabeth1920 7 жыл бұрын

Jessi Boo same

@cindypattana6071 6 жыл бұрын

The other baby was hideous.

@Ezzmirelda 6 жыл бұрын

People always say that babies with more eurocentric features look better. It's so bias.

@terri5757 2 ай бұрын

Does anyone know if the baby was allowed to stay in the US after the 3 weeks was up? I understand this was 7 years ago. I hope wherever they are the family is doing fine. I also hope the other baby and his family are doing well too.

@ethelbunda871 5 жыл бұрын

So blessed they found their real baby...why this things happened... Neglect on their duty in handling the baby after delivery? So painful to give up the other baby...

@madina9949 3 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry but if he so heartbroken, I hope this never happened to me or anyone else.

@TaliesTarotandAstrology794 Ай бұрын

I am so glad the family was reunited that was a while ago

@kokobean5921 6 жыл бұрын

I think the story here is don't trust the damn doctors

@casipie 4 жыл бұрын

Any one know an update on this one? Did Moses get to stay?

@ebrahimsiddiqui3008 4 жыл бұрын

How all these mothers remember their baby's ,even through they see them only once

@ellyelisabeth2783 3 жыл бұрын

A mother never forgets that first moment. My son is coming up to 25....can still picture the moment I first held him.

@ebrahimsiddiqui3008 3 жыл бұрын

@@ellyelisabeth2783 umm... Is it applies to males also or only women have this ability, b/w i am also 25 but for me all babys look same 😁😂especially toddler's

@kcbee4897 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds kinda ignorant

@traceyhellsten649 3 жыл бұрын

Mothers know. A mother can distiguish her own childs cry from many others.

@EthanahtE 2 жыл бұрын

Because her baby is half white and the other baby is afro-indigenous lol she could tell

@sujeirymendoza327 7 жыл бұрын

God is good I hope for the best

@BabyBunch 5 жыл бұрын

The sad thing is the little Jacob boy is probably suffering back in eI Salvador after living a posh life

@basidan4488 4 жыл бұрын

Lmfaooooo

@amiragadotimtim8203 2 жыл бұрын

Is not her child

@dogzillasquad9524 7 жыл бұрын

congratulations 💜💜👍👍

@OnyxTiger Жыл бұрын

I don't care, I'm giving birth in the USA. This stuff happens in El Salvador more than you know.

@trevizovictoria9098 6 жыл бұрын

Sweet people!!! Beautiful!

@GuyFromTheSouth 4 жыл бұрын

I have a 10 month old if I found out he wasnt mine biologically I wouldnt be able to switch him back with my biological baby.

@omsairam8205 6 жыл бұрын

God bless you

@violetsplaycenter3610 29 күн бұрын

Did they sue the hospital and Sue some more?

@elianaal-q5565 6 жыл бұрын

What happened to the other baby ??

@niamtsev5104 5 жыл бұрын

Both babies are beautiful

@Joy-tu4yj 6 жыл бұрын

They should sue the stupid hospital

@beachrose88 7 ай бұрын

so glad she has her REAL BABY

@zoeybundles82 7 жыл бұрын

Look Latina and white man we need this more ppl like this

@Roxannecastillo96 7 жыл бұрын

Zoey Bundles yup

@denisedean2446 4 жыл бұрын

Race has nothing to do with this although it's obvious this handsome little boy is biracial with blue eyes and the other baby was much darker.

@christinabarron9176 Жыл бұрын

What about the baby he was switched with when u took Moses with u did she get Jacob??

@karthifromnyc2834 3 жыл бұрын

God is great 🙏🏼

@ishuadhikari7085 3 жыл бұрын

What about Jacob's parents?Should have shown them too

@kimh7568 6 жыл бұрын

Have your baby at home! Too many of these mess ups!

@thequeen4140 5 жыл бұрын

Kim H lmao no

@denisedean2446 4 жыл бұрын

Kim H keep baby in room with mom.

@andriadipura6393 4 жыл бұрын

Explains a lot the competency of health system in the third world country.

@lilyhuang4217 2 жыл бұрын

very beautiful little boy

@Gabriela214214 7 жыл бұрын

I'm from Dallas 😎

@cutiecupcake6939 7 жыл бұрын

Cutest baby EVERRRR!!

@Lilka20061990 7 жыл бұрын

Imagine your child was switched at birth and now you need to give him/her back and get your own child... like no! I want both now

@chickadee39 5 жыл бұрын

She basically did say that she thought she was going to keep both..but the other little baby had his mother that wanted him..you can't have one mother walk away without her baby.. I know you were only making light and you weren't serious lol.😊 This woman actually did think she would get both babies..xx

@mcaskey358 3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure the other family feels exactly the same. It's rather selfish to think that you get to have someone else's child and they get nothing, just because you WANT.

@traceyhellsten649 3 жыл бұрын

But what happened to little Jacob??

@zubeidahowusuagyeiwaah3912 5 жыл бұрын

This is soo sad omg the baby is soo cute💋💋💋

@alym7828 6 жыл бұрын

Clearly her real baby was clicked when born and when the other baby came he was TOTALLY different! They even had a picture as a proof then why?

@denissealdana7816 2 жыл бұрын

I always wonder this about my second child born during COVID when I wasn’t allowed anyone with me. The nurse took my baby for a bath while I slept. I really doubt it tho because he looks exactly like my oldest son. Twins as babies. Just a little darker.