Justice versus conscience

As a Mother this story is very hard to digest. I would want the child I raised as much as the child they I gave life to… so much conflict and sadness … nobody wins

This is why babies shouldn’t leave their mother’s side.

I believe that they should give both girls to the one surviving mother AND give the grandparents visitationrights every second weekend two whole days.

There is a miracle here in that the mom & dad that died, along w/ their children, did NOT have the switched daughter with them! Imagine if Paula Johnson had found out that her biological daughter had died?! That would have been so tragic.

This story is both amazing & heartbreaking. So sad that both families are fighting over custody of both kids. So much time has already been wasted because of the mistake at the hospital, why bother wasting anymore time with fighting?! I understand it must be hard, but damn…mesh the 2 families together and both those girls will be showered with so much love!

It seems like this happens far more than anyone realized. I was also switched at birth (back in the late 1950’s), but the mistake was discovered within 24 hours and both myself and the other baby girl were reunited with our biological parents. It’s so scary that such mixups are still happening. How many never find out?

This is exactly why my hospital doesn’t have the baby leave the room during the entire hospital stay.

There is so much more to being a mom than giving birth. Both of these girls have had great moms regardless of dna.

Why in the world would this wonderful woman NOT be given her biological daughter after theres proof of the mistake AND the parents have died. That is literally her kid, and belongs with her.

Wow, at least when I mess up at work, no one’s life is ruined. :/

I’d love to see an update on what these girls think now that they are grown.

I wish Oprah did updates on these stories

What a horrible story. I feel so sorry for Callie. Imagine being told at 6 years old that the mother who has been raising you is not your biological mother and that your real mother is dead. That would rock my world, especially to find out that the whole reason things have gone on as they did is because somebody at the hospital was careless.

I think this mom is hurting and angry.

I saw another story similar to this but the parents discovered when the babies were 1 year olds. The courts ruled they had to switch back the children to the matching biological parents and the mothers were devastated. It was so sad, what a nightmare to have to deal with. I hope the hospitals composite for their turmoil.

This is devastating. I couldn’t imagine not having either one of my daughters and then seeing them with someone else.

Always one of my biggest fears but I chose hospitals that NEVER took the child out of the mother’s room. Not once. I’m so thankful because this is common along with people snatching babies right of the hospital.

Wow this is crazy & sad. I know they must want their actual child back since they know but at the same time you’ve become so attached to the child you thought was yours all these years. I wouldn’t know what to do I’d be so lost & hurt

When When my son was born by an emergency C-section I remember the nurse was taking him to the birthing table I remember telling the nurse let me see him because I wanted to lay eyes on my baby I didn’t want them to bring him to me later without having seen him first in the operating room because I wanted to make sure I knew what his face look like

Their is something so amazing about Oprah I know all the conspiracy theorists are saying she is part of the illuminati or something but whatever.The way she can talk to any human from any race,gender,background and make them feel comfortable opening up is amazing to see.Truly a gift to this world.

It’s a shame they didn’t have the mom take both of them and the grandparents still be grandparents to both girls like a big happy family. Maybe they thought it would be too traumatizing for Rebecca to live with people she didn’t know at all yet though.

I can’t imagine my biological daughter being raised by other people

2years ago it almost happened to me and to this day I still blamed myself. I felt like I’ve been robbed.. Yes robbed by happiness with my first bond with my baby… The guilt is kinda eating me out… I felt like a horrible mom… But one thing is mutual on that day both the baby and I felt the same way..

I would have been absolutely hysterical if this happened to me

I couldn’t even imagine going through this.. I gave birth to my daughter in a huge city because I was a high risk pregnancy and needed to make sure I was in a hospital that had what I needed and there was about 30 other babies born that day so the second she came out they put an alarm bracelet with my name on it and lock on her so the babies don’t get mixed up and idk what I would even do if I found out my baby was switched. I feel so sad for the people who have gone through this because what do you even do?

I am so glad they keep the babies in the rooms with the moms now. I have a toddler and 3 month old and can’t imagine something like this happening.

That is crazy as ever. I would definitely want to be raising my biological child after I found out it was switched at birth. The fact that she doesn’t even get to do that and her biological child is with the other family still I know that kills her I know it does because it would kill me.. I hope she gets her biological child back one day too… it is her right

It’s interesting: she gave birth to one child, and (in a way) ended up with two.

The custody problem just lies with western culture. In Africa, custody issues wouldn’t be a problem because we treat our own neighbors like they are our brothers/sisters/parents/children. All the adults in the situation should have just shared the children like they are all family because the girls have brought them together as if they were.

the girl with no parents eventually got a mom. ..

I was hoping the mother could raise both, the grandparents visit, and they all live happily ever after. Especially since, Callie could have been in that car, even though Rebecca wasn’t…who knows?

I’m not leaving my biological child even if I found them as a teenager. I want my birth child with me.

This is one of the many reasons I never let the midwives take my babies anywhere. They stayed with me 100% of the time. Both of them.

I have a friend that now is a doctor…. she told me when this happens in hospitals they don’t even check, they just choose one baby to give to one of the mothers, they don’t care!!!!!! I felt so angry and sad about it. I mean, tell the parents!!! and made a blood test. BE 100% SURE!!! DON’T RUIN PEOPLE’S LIVES.

We need an update! I hope the girls grew up to be well-adjusted.

She did not want to be sitting there talking to Oprah, I could feel it.

The little girls looked just like their Bio mothers

Poor Rebecca having to grow up knowing that her mum preferred someone else’s child over her.

I am so glad that it all worked out.

It‘s crazy to see how much these two girls looked like their birthmothers

When my mom was pregnant she was scared that me or my siblings would be switched so she wouldn’t let us leave the room unless we had too (none of us had too thank goodness). She said she watched a lot of lifetime movies when she was pregnant with my brother and that’s what made her so scared.

im now obsessed w/ OWN anyone else?

Imagine knowing you now cant raise your biological child as well

I feel the grandmother wants her biological daughter because of loosing her own daughter. I feel courts must have told her it wasn’t that simple and that they have to ease in to custody for the sake of the children but i just feel like grandma didn’t want to hear that and wanted her way so it created tension. As much pain as this mom has gone through, she’s being strong. Some may not agree with what I’m going to say but mom’s feelings override grandmoms. I’m not saying hers don’t matter but its big of mom to take on this step of custody arrangements and that she’s not the one being problematic

I sort of feel that mother should have had custody of both children since both of her biological daughter’s parents died. The grandparents of course should have rights to the children and be involved, but 1 weekend a month doesn’t seem like very much for either side.

from a legal perspective it’s strange that Paula wouldn’t be awarded sole custody of her biological daughter.

The parents had only been dead a few weeks when this was discovered. I lived in the county where it happened and it was so tragic. The parents were very young, early 20’s if that and were driving with 5 other kids all young teens or early 20’s all died. 7 total. A big rig crossed the highway and ran over them. The parents also had a baby that was left orphaned too.

How can they be “accidentally” switched when they were identification tags on ankles and wrists

I was born in 1993 and the whole time my mom was pregnant dr’s said it would be a boy. Up to the very last ultrasound. When she gave birth to me she was able to see me and just knew it wasn’t a boy but a girl, she always knew all along. But when my dad showed up they gave him a boy and was convinced he had a boy even when my mom argued against it. They brought the boy in to be breastfed and she went ballistic! Luckily, she caught on to it and so did the other mom. I even had the other moms bracelet and vice versa. They were ready to send us “home”. It’s insane all they had was an apology and I always wondered how the hospital could be so neglectful and impact someone’s life without a care.

OH when Oprah said the other family had perished in a car wreck. Can’t help but feel so sad about this. LOVE WINS!

It’s too bad they all just couldn’t agree and get the girls together more. Obviously the grandma loves both and feels connected to both. Especially having to lose her daughter so tragically. Of course by now these girls are probably grown.

Just found their Facebook pages. Paula shouted both girls out on daughters day. They all seem to be happy and say they wouldn’t change what happened to them.

You know that’s so sad. But we’re all connected in a spiritual. And I am so sorry of the loss of the biological mother and I hope that the other mother that she’s known as her mother continues to be in her life and is allowed to be in her life

I remember watching Switched at birth based on these girls…i liked the show very much

They could never switch my babies. They have all been the spitting image of my husband. If they hand me a baby that doesn’t look just like him, I know that they have switched my baby with someone else’s baby.

This is exactly why I insisted on my baby being in my bed after birth.

i feel so bad for the kid who was with the mom who died like why cant they both just be like sisters?

Wow this case also happened in Philippines recently probably one month ago and thanks to the mother who noticed the baby was not her own baby and now the babies back to their right parents

I had my oldest around the same time and an ankle monitor was placed on the baby immediately after birth which synced with a wrist monitor on the parents that would sound an alarm if the baby was taken out of range of the parents.

My aunt almost got switched to an other baby when she was born. The nurse brought the baby to my grandmother, and she said that this is not my baby.

Interesting fact Carlton who is one of the girls father married the deceased Dads sister,and was able to raise his biological daughter together with his new wife.This daughter doesn’t want anything to do with her biological mother for reasons unknown.The other girl with the blond hair stayed with her nonbiological mother but still has a relationship with the other side as well.Sad

No the grandparents have a right to their grandchild and nobody could live her more than they will because she is a surviving part of their daughter.

When oprah asked her if she thinks of Rebecca as her child I noticed some hesitation.

Being Family isnt only blood, the Extension of your Love…

I don’t understand why the grandparents don’t let the daughter be raised by her biological parents – they are too old and that’s her real mum. I bet they would have no issue with visitation. I wish they put the children’s needs before their own.

This is a WOW story!!!!!

Please do an update, I want to see them now and how this affected them

In my grandma’s time it was home births, but when the next generation changed to hospital births she would say, I’m glad babies in our family are born with clear family features, no risk of switching.

In our hospital (Germany) the baby stays with you in your room from the first second on. Never left alone by any of the parents.

This is not the first time this has happened. Doesn’t anyone remember the case of the girls switched at birth in Florida in the late 70s? There was even a movie about it.

This breaks my heart because she will never get to know her biological parents

There’s no way a mistake should continue. I want my own child. Hospital should pay for me to get it back.

This may be an unpopular opinion but I believe they should stay with the women that aren’t their bio mothers. Imagine your raised by a woman and have grown to love her and she knows everything about you, but then they just switch you with a random girl you don’t know and hand you off to your grandparents who don’t know a thing about you.

I am not a mother so I have no idea how this feels but honestly I think I would still want to raise my biological child and visit the child I raised up until that point. A relationship like this is only going to get more complicated as the girls get older.

HOW DO HOSPITALS ever make this “mistake”? It’s so much worse than a MISTAKE!!!

Wow I’m surprised they didn’t switch them back (I wonder if the other mother had been still alive if they would have) There was a very similar story in Sourh Africa years ago with boys. They decided NOT to switch the boys back.. it ended up in disaster as one family was wealthy and one was very poor so the poor boy was resentful of not having the life he felt he deserved. It’s on 60 minutes Australia. An extremely sad story

I feel like we all thought this had happened to us.

I need a DNA test done to find my dad

I don’t understand why the alive mother doesn’t raise both children. For the daughter shes raised as her own, that’s the mother she knows with no biological mother to go back to. For the biological daughter, that’s her biological mom. If the grandparents are okay with such sparse visitation rights to their bio grandchild, they should be okay with the same for the grandchild they didn’t raise but thought was their bio. It’s not like they saw their Not Bio grandchild all that often either, in terms of not 24/7 because they weren’t raising the child. I also understand the kids were a little older by then but Rebecca had a biological mom to go back to. Turning Grandparents into parents when the orphan has a safe biological family to go back to makes no sense.

It seems like the timing of Paula finding out was actually meant to be so that she could be mother to both girls with the loss of Whitney.

Those girls were born only two months before I was! If i were that mom i’d right tooth and nail for custody of my biological daughter. She only saw her once a month. That’s so messed up

How did the father knew that was not his daughter?

That gma that lost her daughter first saw callie….omg its her daughter right there

I feel like in this situation one child is always favoured by everyone more than the other. Callie is the start in this story and I feel bad for Rebecca.

I dont know about anyone else, but I knew my daughter’s face from minute 1. If someone had brought me a different baby, I would have known straight away

And this is why my husband is staying with our baby when she is born. Our hospital offers that if baby has to leave my side for any reason that we can have husband/support person stay with baby while they do anything medical with her. My baby isn’t going home with a stranger. I haven’t even given birth and I feel very protective of her, im glad the mom took this in stride but I would be absolutely wild if I found out the kid wasn’t the one I gave birth to.

That was mind-boggling wow…

How does something like this happened? I would sue the hospital

If everyone were not so selfish I think something more favorable to everyone would have happened.

This is madness because the EXACT same thing happened in South Africa few yrs back.. even the child support detail

it’s really sad, the kid has real parents still staying with other grandmother. why dont she take back her daughter and grow both the girls together.

Funny thing is, is that I actually made my parents take a dna test because I look absolutely nothing like them and so I made them take one and they are my parents lol but I just look like one of my great great grandparents which is weird

The emotional stress put on the living single mother most be a mountain. Hope she sued that hospital & got $ to help her out. What a nightmare

Mamma looks like she is checked all the way out.

This is psychological traumatizing and really messed up happening.

They should be given an medal for the best actors in the world at covering g up MURDER

How on Earth did the new moms not recognise their own baby in the hospital? How is that possible?

I think that the mom should get both children and the grand parents could have them some weekends and a month in the summer something like that, cause I know what it’s like as a mother.

I think she should have been allowed to raise both girls

In 95 a nurse came on with an infant and tried to give her to me. I’d gotten a very good look at my daughter and had noticed 3 little bumps on her face. This baby the nurse was trying to hand to me wasn’t mine. We went back and forth for minute and she finally put the baby down and picked up the baby that was in the other bed that she had. That was my baby. Both girls had dark hair and dark skin. I’m thinking that the little bumps on my baby’s face saved us all from this happening to us. Which my baby looked just like my brother when she was born also. This would be awful. I think that mom should have both girls and grandparents have regular visitation. At the same time, whatever happens they need to think about what is best for the children. I couldn’t imagine loosing my daughter and to then find a little bitty mini her running around out there. This is so sad

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh why does the deceased family have any rights to keep the child of HER OWN parents?

I’d love to see a an update.

I would love an update on this story Oprah .

Oprah, what happened to me? I need your help. Something happened to me at birth and no one is telling me the truth. It’s Important for people to know the truth! Oprah …where are you? We need you Oprah.!

I wish there was an update on this story

I wonder how many times this has happened and it’s never actually came to light.

the fact the two babies look nothing alike

I can’t get over that I have the same birthday as them down to the year!

The hospital workers should be held accountable and criminally charged this should never happen.

Just one of the many atrocities that happen in hospital births. So glad I birthed at home.

I got a DNA test done recently and will soon know the results. My parents are both very white, but when my mother was born she came out quite dark and her mother gave birth in the same room as a Native American woman. My grandfather became convinced that my mom was switched at birth, but no one ever took any tests. My mom looks very much like all her siblings, though she is much taller than her sisters. She looks very white, and so do my siblings and I, apart from my brother who could pass as Hispanic especially in the summer. I’m a little nervous for the results. We all think it is highly unlikely that my mom was switched at birth, but it’s still a possibility. Maybe I’ll update when I get the results. They should come within a week.

So the father said she wasn’t his child even before the DNA test to absolve himself of responsibility?

Love an update on this story

There needs to be (and maybe there is and I haven’t seen it) a where are they now follow up. How did it all turn out?

Ughhh!!! What is the update???? I REALLY pray the adults were all able to work things out. To be fair, at the time this was filmed, it was still fresh and UNDERSTANDABLY EMOTIONAL for everyone. Hopefully they got past that and realized they were ALL victims of a HORRIBLE mistake.

This has happened so much. There are some sicko nurses out there. Could have been done deliberately. It’s so shocking.

In some hospitals now, what they do is put a gps bracelet around the ankle of the baby as soon as the mother gives birth with the baby’s and parents name, with address and phone number. So it would be impossible to have a mix-up…. Hell of a lawsuit though.

I remember all of this. UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL IN CHARLOTTESVILLE . they killed one of my TWINS. My only Son at age 26yrs. 11 months to the day he would be 27 with his twin Sister..

Wow, and the sad story continues: “Paula Johnson says she has never been able to let go of the hate she feels from her ordeal and the fact she has no relationship with her biological daughter”

Crazy that this happens it’s a future fear of mine if I have biological children myself and my heart breaks that they can’t go back to their own families but they have already been with their “adoptive” families since birth so I guess that takes prescient I want the best for the girls but I feel they should be with their own families and they were so young they probably could’ve adjusted okay so sad Callie’s biological mom died never knowing the age heartbreaking.

I was so scared of this that I bought nail polish and painted my baby’s big toes. Then I knew. They never took my girls anywhere without me. My son was removed so he could get circumcised.

An unbelievable story

I’m not understanding why they didn’t go to their biological parents after they found out n just kept contact because they where young

This is a sad story. Paula’s husband left her and married Callie’s biological aunt who was raising Rebecca, Callie’s birth family cut of contact with Paula for a long time, eventually Paul had contact after Rebecca grew up, but Callie’s bio family is still distant from Callie and Rebecca’s contact with Paula is not much. I can’t understand how Callie’s bio family (grandparents, aunts and uncles) did not want Kevin(callie’s dad who died in the crash)’s daughter back in the fold. Its very strange. Callie has a biological sister, but her contact with Callie is also not much. Very weird story

I think a free DNA test should be available as an OPTION to all parents and children before leaving the hospital. Just a thought…. And to those saying “babies shouldn’t leave moms side after birth”….umm sometimes baby needs to be taken from mom for further evaluations, especially if it’s an emergency. My son was taken away after birth and returned 30 minutes later all fine. Also, some parents do let baby go off after birth if they’re exhausted. You have to remember not everyone in labor & delivery has a partner or some kind of support system when baby enters the world. Just sayings

Maybe it’s a blessing for both family’s

So happy my baby isn’t leaving my room, my biggest fear

Fortunately my son’s were the only boys in the nursery. But bracelets were put on me and my sons in the delivery room. Why isn’t this done everywhere?

I spent my entire childhood hoping this had happened to me. I prayed a call would come in from my “real” parents to pick me up from the narcissistic mentally ill crap that unfortunately did actually have me. If I could afford rhinoplasty I’d used plastic surgery to remove two of the biggest jerks off my face.

Why is there any custody issue with the living biological mom if it was the hospital’s mistake and there is dna proof? I understand that the kids can’t be torn from the people they’ve grown up with, but “custody” implies that the law is involved.

So much grief because of nurses’ carelessness

I would never let them take my baby and if I couldn’t be there I would make sure a family member was always with the baby. HTF could this happen?

I’d like to say this happens far too often for hospitals not to be sued into oblivion because of it. Too many times has this happened because of idiotic nurses. Either the hospital gets sued or the nurse gets sued YOUR PICK.

Doesn’t it make you wonder how often this might happen and no one has a clue?

Sounds like grandma knew the little girl she is raising wasn’t her daughter’s child. When she said with the dna,now I have a piece of my daughter with me. That family also had their suspicions about the daughter. N has probably been treated differently

The girls need to make thier own descions they deserve it

If I am wrong I will gladly eat humble pie and keep my opinions to myself in future but I strongly believe that they panicked and covered up Madeleine s body

This happens all too frequently.

This is why my baby will never leave the hospital room

if my baby isn’t in my sight, then they will be in the sight of a trusted friend or family member.

I am soooo glad my hospital didn’t remove babies from the mom’s room so I had my daughter all the time and the doctors checked her in my room

I think they should just be one big family, then they all gain and don’t lose. Why not live beside one another? They’re older, they lost their daughter, the mother. Leaving them to raise a young child in their late years and this lady is the other mother, who I think could use the help the grandparents are willing to give as much as they could use hers.

Wow, that little girl thought her mom died and got another mom! Crazy how things happen!

I wonder if the nurse that did the switching of these babies and other cases too not feel guilty for having made such a terrible mistake that affected so many people and physiological trauma they cause to both parents and children

Well, at least thanks to the parents who told the children early on.

Here in Holland the baby only leaves the room with the father or an other familymember.. just in case I think..

This is so unfair to biological mother that her own child is not living with her. Just crazy

I wonder how well the child knew the grand parents. Unless they were close, that child should be raised by the mom.

this was my all 3 of my cousins that got switch at birth the mother and the dad was also my cousin they never knew that the kids was switch

I get a bad vibe from this mother. I feel as she don’t care as much for her biological child..I would be devastated and want both girls in my life.everything to her is about Cali.

Life is insane . Wow .

Lifetime worthy plot twist the other mother was killed in the car accident by mother Paula . Paula seems to Golden child her non biological daughter. Maybe she didn’t want to let her go.

I couldn’t not want my own child. It’s weird how they keep opposite child. Wow

i think you should be allowed to take back your biological child if thats what you want. i think its heart breaking and the hospitals should be made accountable. This sort of thing wouldn’t happen if the children were banded whilst still with the mother at birth. oh so tragic and inconceivable.

Grandma is happy, becsuse she got her daughter back, except, she isn’t the daughter but the granddaughter and she isn’t her mom but a stranger. Both should be allowed to live with the survivong mom! God, the poor, poor girls, what a tragedy! I told my husband, wherever they go with the baby, you go too! But my daughter had a baby-basket right next to my hospital bed anyway.

She needs a real lawyer

Why did the grandma never talk about Rachel only Cali whereas Rachel bio mom talked about both and how much love she has for both

Mistakenly switch? No you mistakenly lock your keys in your car! You mistakenly leave your windows open on your way to work and you knew it was going to rain but you FORGOT to close the window. Those are common mistakes. This incident involving children is UNACCEPTABLE

nah see I would’ve been like excuse me give me my child

So, WHO switched them? Was it an accident, or intentional? After my youngest was born in a hospital, by C-section, they brought in a baby boy. I took one look at him and said, “This isn’t my baby”. The nurse looked shocked and took him away and brought me mine. I often have wondered if it was done on purpose, or if it truly was a mistake. He had a bracelet on. I thought they were supposed to check them.

Think of the poor girl who had just lost her mother in a car crash just to find out that she wasn’t your biological parent and your biological parent had mothered the girl who’s biological parent had been killed!

I am questioning if I am my moms daughter right now

Very strange to let the girl to live with the grandmother while there is a sweet and caring biological mother who loves to raise her. Why the granddmother doesn’t agree to be a real granddmother for both girls? You know, sleepovers, baby sitting. I would try to connect as family with eachother in the benefit of the girls.

When my first son was born I went to the nursery to see him and they brought another baby to the window and I was saying how beautiful he was when my husband interrupted me and said that’s not our baby so he asked the nurse to check his hospital ID tag and he was not our son. They apologized and brought us our son. And my husband said yes this is my son he is just as ugly as you that other baby was to cute to be ours. ( my husband has a sick sense of humor)

Give the mom her real daughter!

Oh interesting. So, things must’ve gone south with Rebecca’s mum’s mum, cos she doesn’t have visitation rights for Callie

Jeez that was intense! And on a side note, that’s just way too many ads for such a short video.

I think I was switched at birth… I don’t get along with my family at all… lol

I feel that the baby should have a bracelet with her name on it. And that after mom gets home with her baby, she should go see her house doctor and do a blood test for in case.

Does anyone know about the two boys i believe in Georgia was switched one was adopted the other was African American and the father kept accusing his wife of cheating eventually they found the boys were mixed up in the hospital i saw only one interview about them and the biological mother had both the boys i just have always wondered what happened to all of those involved in away it’s a sad situation for everyone involved

What a Mind F! What happened after? Now today ? Where are the girls

Very sad that Rebecca doesn’t speak to Paula.

I seen These Girls Facebook Profiles And Rebbeca Is Married And Having Her First Child At 25 Been A Home Owner For 4 Years And Callie Became A Mom At 19 And Has 2 Kids And She Is Married.

They should treat the girls like twins and let the moves like twins between family visitation . It’s enough love to go around.

I kinda agree with this mother. It’s sad they were switched at birth, but both families loved them as their own. there might be questions as the girls got older and adults, but not as children. This just makes it complicated.

How Can she live with not raising her own daughter too. Thats ridiculous

It seems like Whitney would want both her daughters to be raised by their other mother with visits to the Grandparents. She is young and really they are both her children too.

Those people are evil for doing that. I don’t believe those families, something is wrong.

So “Rebecca” was supposed to be “Cali” and “Cali” was supposed to be “Rebecca”

This poor women went through so much after this. She lost her biological child, lost her husband, who then shacked up with an aunt (who was raising Rebecca) of the other family, Rebecca said she wants nothing to do with Paula and sees the aunt as her mom. The biological father should be ashamed of himself for not even trying to reunite Rebecca with her bio mother somehow.

This is not the 1996 set . . . This set was used starting in 1998.

I cant imagine, wonder how are they now?

Why doesn’t Whitney’s parents have visitation to Callie?

The mother tried to get rebeka back but the judge ruled the children will stay with the family who has been raising them, they tried to work out a visitation schedule however it did not work and both children grew less eager to meet relatives they only knew as strangers.. I pray for healing in all involved ***paula sewed the hospital and was awarded a little over 1 million dollars

Am confused with this story,I have to watch over and over to get it straight

Whoever is reading this, always remember the only way to God is through his son Jesus Christ Lord and Savior. Love you beloved. Trust God no matter what.

The gospel by which we’re SAVED. We’re under Paul’s ministry today. Therefore we’re not under the law of the old testament. 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 (KJV)(1) Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the GOSPEL (good news) which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; (2) By which also ye are SAVED, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain (self). (3) For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that CHRIST DIED for our SINS according to the scriptures; (4) And that he was BURIED, and that he ROSE AGAIN the THIRD DAY according to the scriptures. And that takes us back to John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH in him should NOT PERISH, but have EVERLASTING LIFE. Ephesians 2:8-9 (KJV) (8) For by GRACE are ye SAVED through FAITH; and that NOT of yourselves: it is the GIFT of GOD: (9) NOT of works, lest any man should boast. So it’s only by GRACE that we are SAVED not by works. JESUS did all the work and gave us GRACE (unmerited favor) as long as we have FAITH (believe) in the DEATH, BURIAL, and RESURRECTION of Jesus Christ for SALVATION (trust in his BLOOD ATONEMENT). That’s the gospel. JESUS said, Ye must be BORN AGAIN to enter into the kingdom.(accept Jesus as your SAVIOUR)  READ, UNDERSTAND, BELIEVE (from the heart by FAITH) and be SAVED

I de want my daughter back!

I would be livid!

I don’t understand why this grandmother wouldn’t let this MOTHER raise both girls, after the other mother died. How selfish. She should be facilitating Rebecca’s relationship with her birth mother. This is horrible, however, God does not make mistakes. There is a reason this happened. I hope it worked out better eventually.

we need an update on this

Why not switch them back permanent after gradually getting to know one another more? They are young enough.

So…legally when the girls turn 13, they can actually choose which home they wish to live.

The grandmother should have just let her have her daughter then both girls could go stay with grandma once a month.

I just found out my son is actually my mother.

I give birth to my son in Belgium hospital in 2014. I stay in a standard room, the cheapest one. My son stay next to my bed the whole stay. He turned yellow, the doctor give him a uv light therapy next to my bed. One time 2 nurses took my son away for a test. They asked me first before taking my son and my husband can go with them to the test room. They don’t have a glass room where all the babies stay together, all babies stay with the mother. I feel like in us they should let all babies stay with the mother too. All newborn need their mother. The glass room is cute but creating a loophole for the nurse to accidentally switch babies, or the fake nurse to kidnap babies. If the babies need to go away from the mom room alway send 2 nurses and let one of the parents go with them to prevent babies kidnapping.

This is very depressing. I don’t get why they have such limited visitation. The girls should have just been raised as sisters full time. Why such conflict? They could have all worked together on this.

From the second my son was out of my womb he immediately got a bracelet put on him before I was even sown up from the c-section so I don’t understand mix ups

So did the girls get to go to their real families after the discovery or did they stay in the same homes?

Im just wondering why you wouldn’t want you’re actual child

What a tragedy that became a hot mess on top of it. She was going to tell the girl, but changed her mind 5 minutes later.

I have heard about the 2 boys in South Africa,,,it was thru the courts and a DNA test that the parents found out,,how many switches are out there,,do these things happen all the time,,,Bittersweet

Geez, just leave well enough alone.

I feel like they should of switch the kids. Callie should of been with the grandma. And Rebecca should have been with her mother.

UHHHHHHH GIVE ME MY CHILD AND YOU TAKE YOUR GRANDCHILD. it’s the hospital fault tf.

‘I love my other children, But’

Having a sister who adopted that is her daughter.

I love you

Give rebecca back to her biological mother and with callie too. Her grandmother should be give this girls to mother who love both of them. A grandma still able to visit them.

I hate the way she always uses words like killed, murdered, tortured, etc. it’s really devastating for these kids/ anyone in these situations and saying she was KILLED is just really insensitive

I’m sorry but if that’s biologically her daughter and the hospital made a mistake they need to give her child to her and allow the other family to have their granddaughter! This story is crazy I wouldn’t be able to go on without having my daughter!

Where are they now?

I think nurses do this on purpose as part of a god complex.

My dad should expect protection of my life by family since the police can’t offer it. Then I’ll have to protect my way of dying myself we lf. I cannot be subject to hospital murder like my mom , and dad were.. isolated under the guise of police racist brutality.

why cant the living mother have custody of her own daughter

Wow they look just their mothers.

They should have sued the hospital

there are bored and angry nurses walking around and switching babies just for fun

This mother could take custody of her biological child…..and have a case to keep the other as well as long as she kept in touch with the grandma

Their sisters in the best possible way, God sisters.

Rebecca’s a little slower? Hummmm what?

How do you not know what your own baby looks like!??

God, how many mixed up people have to suffer since hospital was opened?

Definitely NOT 1996 but ok

Any updates on this case?

Gee, Oprah and Harpo Studios didn’t make enough money while on air? They feel the need to jam pack this small video with ads? The greed.

Oprah, there are only two sides, two choices in life. You are backing the wrong horse. You’re on the wrong path. Stop and change direction now

The mothers do look a lot alike.

I kinda feel sorry for her sons. She didn’t speak that well of them, in fact the way she said “boys” didn’t sit well with me at all.

These kids were so young why didn’t they switch back or let the young mom have both and give grandma visitation

Nurses do this all the time.

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I wonder if that baby ended up with her so she could be with her when her bio mother died. Maybe it just ended up like that for some reason. They say everything happens for a reason. Now they both have a mother in a way that’s still alive. Sad though. This kinda shot could make a Hollywood movie.

You’ll never believe this, but Rebecca Grace (the child raised by her grandmother after her mother (actually both) parents died in a car accident, she doesn’t have anything to do with her biological mother, now – Rebecca’s birth mother tried to win custody of Rebecca but a judge ruled she should stay with Callie’s family, with visitation rights. WELL.. Pam Miskovsky, Callie’s aunt helped bring up Rebecca and is now married to Callie’s biological father, Carlton Conley!!! I wonder if the father had anything to do with driving a wedge between her and her mom or if he had anything to do with the switch at the hospital. It just seems very sus to me for so many coincidences to involve him. He was also the one who initiated the divorce shortly after the girls were born and claimed that the baby wasn’t his – and a paternity test would have backed him up, if they had not also done a maternity test. It just makes me wonder if he was trying to get out of child support and he switched the babies ankle bracelets in the nursery. Back then, a father was allowed inside the nursery with the other babies in some hospitals and they didn’t have the digital tags and alarms and all the security that they do now.

What a sad story

Accidental adoption basically damn

Looking beautiful Oprah

DNA Testing is a blessing, many innocent people have been exonarated from crimes they didn’t commit. Locked up criminals who committed to them. The truth of DNA is a blessing.

Let’s get the nurse who switched them by accident

And that all was filmed 20 years ago, crazy

what if the parents are psychopaths.. omg.. you endanger the life of the children..

That’s why you don’t have babies in hospitals. And don’t separate mother and child!!!!!

My question is why couldn’t the biological or I would of thought she would get her daughter back and the maternal grandmother would get the other daughter

Someday somebody’s going to regret this.

Imagine if she was in that car crash she wouldnt have gotten to see her.

Why did they switch when they found out?

Where are they now??? Auntie do an update please.

This mom seems disconnected

So they didn’t swap children back to the biological families? I think she should have both the girls seen as the other parents passed and the other family have visitation rights. That way neither girls miss out. I seen a similar story to this and they didn’t swap kids back, one of the kids, now grown up, despises that the other kid got his life with money, while he had to grow up poor with nothing. That child could grow up feeling unloved and unwanted because she can’t be with her birth mum, while some other girl of no blood gets to have her. This set up doesn’t make much sense to me. How old is this show anyway? Surely they’re much older girls now?

Why are these people so stupid? After knowing the mistake made by the HOSPITAL, please rectify the situation! You can see the mother is suffering..

I couldn’t imagine.

Im starting to hate these stories give 1 part of the story then its over. This is torture

Be like England and keep your babies in your room lol

My baby never left the room

LOOKING AT IT EITHER WAY, WHEN THE TIME COMES WONT THE BIOLOGICAL CHILD BE ENTITLED BY LAW TO HIS BIOLOGICAL PATENTS ESTATE

2021 UPDATE!!! I was so intrigued by this story I had to search for an update. Turns out Rebecca doesn’t love her birth mum Paula (she had filed for custody of both girls and was denied) Rebecca’s birth dad/Paulas ex, married the sister to Whitney(Callies birth mum) they frequently met when he shuttled the two girls for visits and fell in love. They got three sons after. So Rebecca lives with her birth dad and wants nothing to do with Paula/birth mum. Paula remarried, she lives with Callie and they’re very close and she lost a son to suicide. Callie still visits her biological grandparents.

Babies can look alike at birth,,, a dna test should be taken at birth and before they walk out the door

So sad. What a mess.

What if Khloe Kardashian was switched at birth too?

Subhanallah!!!

The two mother’s look a like

This is the same kinda case in South Africa with these to boys

DNA test before leaving the hospital with the baby

I wonder if they ever switched back…?

Off topic, but we share a birthday! June 29th c:

You can’t mix up babies of other ethnicities. They have different color hair and texture and features that are there at birth

How could this happen accidently? After the baby is born, they put a tag around the babys ankle with all their info on it.

I read that the hospital didn’t even apologise.

Here in nz name tag goes on the ankle right after a baby is born, does this not happen in the states??

Why not give the mother her child, and let the ‘grandmother’ have visits? Why should the actual mother not have her own child and continue raising the other woman’s child (that she’s already been raising)? Or give the other family their granddaughter, and the switched patent get to visit her. Hope both families sued the hospital for millions!

This is why the babys crib should be next to the mothers bed thats how it was for my sister

Wow..

Sad.

You cant leave your daughter you gave birth to to someone else She should raise Both her daughters x

Time to trade kids. Biological with biological family.

They’re sisters at this point

That’s a NIGHTMARE

This is messed up

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REBECCA WILL BLAME HER MOTHER.

Not their child by dna but raised like her own. Ong

My birthday is also June 29th 🙂

New birthing centers dont let the baby leave the room.

They are more mothers to those daughter being milk mothers…

Yes love Opray

Did they sue the s*** out of that hospital??

She looks bored like she didn’t want to be there.

Like k-drama “autumn in my heart”

Wish they had uncovered this error much sooner.

Maybe my son isn’t my son lool

Oprah, Where are They Now?

Not sure in America.. but when babies are born in NZ, they have a name tag put on their arm or leg.

Can we get a update?? Lol

One girls was robbed of time with her parents.

What if this happened me lol

They should slap wrist & ankle ID tags on the babies as soon as they’re born so that this doesn’t happen

Some things are best not known.

How tho when I had my baby they put a tag on his leg with my name on iy

I don’t understand if the kid doesn’t even look like you wouldn’t you wonder?

Oprah has a very good wigs

Why can she have full custody of her biological daughter??? I know I would.

Oh wow

Yeah…what happened to the wrist and ankle tags?

why isn’t she raising her biological daughter

Can we get an update?

The birth mother should have FULL rights to the custody of her own blood child, especially as the woman she went with by error is dead. However, as she as acted as the mother of the other child of the other child it would make more sense she also got custody of her and the grandparents had only visitation. As they lie so close one weekend a month is ridiculous. Clearly, they have had some sort of issue working out a proper arrangement. I hope they got decent money from the hospital. I’ve read that American healthcare is very poor for most people. It is ranked 28th in the world but it isn’t equal as in other developed nations. So some people get amazing healthcare and some people get 3rd world quality healthcare. And if you cannot afford it you don’t get it. Americans don’t even realise this as they get told everything is better there and they never bother checking to see this isn’t true.

Is there an update?

Where are they now?

Switched at birth irl

I’m assuming the father who got the dna test got out of paying child support.

Any updates on the two girls switched at birth?

Where’s the update on this story

So why were they given visitAtion rights?

How are the girls doing today?

Look I understand but in also confused asf. The Ksmiyah mogley story made more sense than this to me

Dang, scrambled eggs

she should have both girls to raise them

Lowkey twins

If the parents were innocent why wont they take a lie Detector the prove s in there Eyes

If you drag the sea you might have had a chance but she is nowhere now only with the lord

shame on you

The little girl didn’t get to meet them, but did they at least know that she wasn’t biologically theirs before the car crash?

I’m a cancer he is a Leo

The girl grandparents are raising should go back to the birth mother she should have both.

Oprah , you need to focus on truly giving YOUR life to Jesus! Stop this profession of Gossip ! You have enough money, assests ! Stop !!!! Dive into Jesus, confess your sins, John 3:16

A nurse did it some of them are sick. That is just wrong. It was not the mothers fault the babies were switched why can’t she have her real daughter.

What happen to the rest of the video

This woman behaves like she is suffering with depression.

And covered up Madeleine body because they were worried about going to prison for over dosing and leaving there chridren alone

Oprah comes across as a sensationalist, making money by getting headlines. Her interview with Harry and Megs was a shocker. I’m not subscribing and I’m not interested in Oprah.

I told my mom that it is possible babies are switched in the hopital. She just shrugged and i asked her maybe i was switched and she laughed at me and said, “how is that possible? You were born at home?”

where are they now

Where are they now

Miss Kingdom vii- i am not quite sure what you are referring to. If it is what i said about my daughter being taken off us for no real reason. You do not know how social services work They had no proof whatsoever of the reason they took our daughter off us. You have no idea of what we went through and you obviously do not understand that social services DO take people s kids off them,when they think they know it all. And they very often let people who should have their kids removed keep theirs. They have no real sense of justification.

I look like absolutely NOONE in my family. And if this can actually happen… I’m freaking out.

Ramsey

thumbs down because of march 7

Mad

If I ever have a kid, that baby’s getting a mark on his head in permanent marker. Can’t be too careful

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That’s kinda funny

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Why can’t the right child go to the right mother? And the other child to the grandmother?

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Let’s not forget the fathers in this ordeal.

why didn’t they just swap babies so they are with their biological family?

This is horrible

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Why I feel she is distant and doesn’t care