Posted by Loulou on Feb 25, 2015 | 4 comments

Oh, boy, all of us here were fascinated by the article on the French babies who were switched at the hospital by a nurse, and who then grew up with the wrong families!  So bizarre—but each of the mothers started noticing that the hair and skin of their babies were different from those of each family’s genes! When one of the fathers insisted on a paternity test because gossip had begun in the neighborhood that one of the babies was perhaps “the postman’s child”, it was discovered that NEITHER the mother NOR the father of that child were the parents!!!

One of the mothers is divorced because her husband would not believe the daughter was his, but her life continued successfully nonetheless. Both mothers and mistaken daughters met after the discovery was uncovered by DNA testing (mama says you can read all about it here), but both mothers wanted to keep the child they had raised as they felt they really had no connection to the birth child after having raised the mistaken child for over 10 years.

Everyone seems to be okay with the decisions and the two daughters tried for a friendship but it did not last.

Is that an incredibly sad and happy mistake? Perhaps when they are older, the girls will want to see more of their real mothers, but both mothers feel that they have so much love invested in their mistaken daughters that it would not be fair to change their lives so radically at this point and they simply saw no reason to do it.

Does this happen often, I wonder? And is the situation resolved…ever?

I’m really, really glad mama did not mistakenly feed that black and white kitty who prowls around here, looking a lot like ME except for the long hair (in a pony tail—haha just kidding) and strange eyes, unlike my gorgeous greens.

Boy, would I have been in a pickle. Whatever that means…

See, I don’t look anything LIKE that dude…