Newborn Breast Fed By Wrong Mother At Hospital
New parents were horrified to learn that their newborn baby had been breast fed by another woman.
The mistake happened at Portsmouth Regional Hospital in New Hampshire (USA).
According to the couple, a nurse had mistakenly taken their baby to the wrong mother who then proceeded to feed the baby.
“All we were told is she did breast feed,” said the unnamed father. “We were told it was only five minutes but after talking to this person we were told it was a significant amount of time.”
It is believed that the nurse had misread the identification number on the baby’s ID tag, which matches the parents number.
The father had asked the woman if she had been aware that she had nursed the wrong child.
“We point blank asked her, ‘did you not know you were taking care of our baby?’ and her response was ‘I thought it wasn’t my baby but I didn’t want to sound crazy so I didn’t say anything,’” he said.
Officials at the hospital are investigating how the mix up happened and have apologised to the family.
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