Would You Give Your Baby Back if He Was Swapped at Birth?

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Permalink Reply by Tess on April 2, 2009 at 8:17pm

Holy caplocks batman!

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Permalink Reply by Michelle Stauch on April 2, 2009 at 8:42pm

I'd want the one I'd been raising. Well truthfully, I'd want both. Assuming this wasn't possible...I'd move next door to my bio child, it takes a village right?? Why can't they coraise the kids. Just my opinion.

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Permalink Reply by Carl Furillo on April 2, 2009 at 8:42pm

I think the only solution to this is to allow Madonna to adopt both of the boys. Unfortunately for them, they're white so she probably wouldn't want to adopt them.

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Permalink Reply by lilliam gomez on April 2, 2009 at 9:26pm

I would keep the child I have raised from day 1. I am an adoptive mpther and for those of you who think that it doesn't affect the child, think again, it does. The security of your mother when you are an infant, is the only think you have, being ripped away from this will have it's problems in the future (biological or not). I was a foster parent for years and saw it every day of my life, not just in older childern, but very young ones too.
This child was sent too me by God, weather by birth or by love, and that's all that counts.

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Permalink Reply by Sheila on April 2, 2009 at 10:04pm

You know that would be a hard choice but when you have reaised a child for two years how could you just give him up that easily? Not to mention what it is doing to the older children, they only understand that the baby was brother or sister so how can you trade it off for another that is not new born and not going to have the chance to create all those memories that are past? The first time to hold the baby, all the firsts they do, etc. The older kids will have those memories with the child who is gone. Not to say they can't learn to love the new child but it would be harder for the older kids than for the parents. I have no idea what I would do but I think it would be best to find a way to live close together so that the children wouldn't be ripped from their first family all together or if they kept the kids then they could still be a part of their biological childrens lives. It would work if they cared to make it work.

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer on April 2, 2009 at 10:50pm

This is a truely compligated situation. For two years these gamilies have raised these babies as their own. Siblings fell in love. Two years is a long time to establish a family bond along with routines and rules. It must be so hard on both the families as a whole. The children though, I fear will be hurt more by this change. Not just the babies but any siblings that may be involved also. I just find this so so sad. I don't know how I would handle that situation. I don't think I could just casually give up a boy I had raised as my own for two years. Then again I would definitely want MY son back also. It's just too much....best wishes to both those families. I hope everything works out well.

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Permalink Reply by Shelley on April 3, 2009 at 12:55am

What is this LIE stuff?? Obviously people who don't know what unconditional love is all about. It is never a lie to deeply love your baby. Even if you find out that it is not biologically yours you cannot just say "Oh, sorry, you have to go now". Doesn't work that way. I would not never swap the child that I mothered. Anyone can spit out a baby. Not everyone can love and be a parent. No one is going to be the parent that baby loved to begin with. Finding out later in life would mean nothing compared to love he /she would have for her 'parents'. Knowing how much he/she loves them, they would understand why the 'parents' would never have let them go.
A friend of mine was taken from her mother at 2 and remembers it well. She has a ton of trust and insecurity issues she has spent a lifetime trying to deal with and has never had a successful relationship (except with her children) and she would be the first one to tell you all about how the childs world is never the same again.

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Permalink Reply by rhonda isch on April 3, 2009 at 3:26am

OMGosh............ Have those people lost their mind. They are terrorizing those 2 precious innocent little boys. This is such a heart breaking story.

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Permalink Reply by Matt on April 3, 2009 at 4:30am

i would have to move to the same naborhood if i could. wow and that would be wierd.

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Permalink Reply by Infiniti on April 14, 2009 at 9:01pm

i am a mom of two boys and i dont think i could~!

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