They brought me the wrong baby about 2 hours after my second daughter was born.
Now, my Jenifer was 8 lbs with black hair,but they brought in a 5 lb red head for me to nurse. I argued with the nurse
and after 1/2 hour they brought the correct baby with the apology, “do not try to nurse her as the other mother already did.” The other baby was also a Jennifer and there had been over 20 babies delivered that night and the hospital was over whelmed.
When I was expecting my first child, there was a lot of media reports about switching babies. I was so fearful that after he was handed to me.. I drew a dot on his foot with a black sharpie. No lie... I’d like to blame the Percoset but that’s what I did. (either way... he was the only white male born that night and had a full head of blonde hair.. no mistaking him at all) :)
I'd be really upset if someone else had nursed my baby. There is no telling what diseases that person might have.
You have to wonder how the other mother did not notice she was nursing the wrong baby.
The only other baby in the hospital when I had my second son was a girl. I think a mix-up in that case would have been obvious.
My grand children were born in SOCal and the mother or baby never left the room period until we took both of them home. That was 20 years ago.