Baby Switched at Birth and Breastfed

What woman doesn’t worry about their child being switched immediately at the hospital? One New York mom is claiming that exact thing happened and because she was switched another mother breast-fed her baby. Exactly how would you feel, knowing this happened to your baby?

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Here’s the story:

Shatiesha Brown gave birth to Anaya Victoria only four hours before another mother with the first initial S and last name Brown gave birth. Shatiesha had high blood pressure and just to make sure it went down they kept the newborn from her mother for the first 24 hours. Only problem, the newborn wasn’t alone or in the little nursery, instead she lay in the arms of another mother. A mother who was falling in love with her, breastfeeding her and taking tons of family photos with her. What’s wrong with that? It wasn’t her baby. Of course neither mother would know, at least not until after everything happened.

I’m not sure how they realized it, but when they discovered the mix-up they quickly fixed it. By the way, it was figured out after Anaya was 18 hours old.  Some state it is because the two families were pointing out their newest family member and an argument broke out.  But it was too late, when Shatiesha tried breastfeeding her baby, she rejected her mother’s milk. Why? She’d already been nursing and this was not the same. She now has to feed her baby formula and yes the family will be pressing this issue and sue the hospital.

How did this happen? No one knows, Anaya even had bracelets on to prevent a mix up.

Here’s a link to the video of the Baby Mix Up news release of it on ABC.