UK Woman’s Terrifying Experience After Hospital Mistakenly Gives Her the Wrong Newborn Baby

Ms Beth was informed by midwives that Isabelle needed phototherapy and would have to be placed in a special nursery. She decided to check on her newborn one night and found a midwife in an office holding a baby. Ms Beth claimed, “The midwife came out of the office and told me to come in because they had Isabelle in there and I just assumed they had taken her out with her phototherapy crib while I was in the toilet.

“Sharing details, she mentioned that the nurses told her they had her there because she had been crying a lot. They also told her that the baby looked exactly like her. Later that night, when Ms Beth changed the infant’s diaper, she discovered she was caring for a baby boy, not her daughter.

She was terrified after four years of infertility and thought she had lost her baby after giving birth to her. She believes that midwives mistakenly mixed up her baby and a newborn boy at the hospital, but it remains unclear if the mother of the boy ever realized the mix-up. As far as she is aware, Isabelle was still in her phototherapy crib across the hall from her, but she has no idea what went on while she was in bed with the other baby.

The hospital has started an investigation into the matter. Lorraine Tonge, director of midwifery at University Hospitals Dorset, expressed regret and mentioned that they had reached out to the mother to offer her support. She urged Ms. Beth to get back in touch to assist with the investigation and reaffirmed the hospital’s commitment to providing full support to the affected families.