A new mum was left “absolutely terrified” after learning that the newborn baby she was caring for in the hospital was not actually her own child.
The shocking incident occurred last September at a hospital in Dorset, England where Maisie Beth, 22, had given birth.
She gave birth to a daughter named Isabelle but when she went to change her baby’s diaper, she found out she had been given a baby boy.
“God knows what would’ve happened,” Beth told Caters News Agency on Wednesday, April 17.
“I could’ve breastfed this baby or the mom could’ve woken up to an empty crib.”
Explaining how the mix-up happened, Beth said that shortly after giving birth to baby Isabelle, midwives informed her that the infant needed phototherapy and would have to be placed in a special nursery. One night, Beth went to check on her newborn and found a midwife in an office holding a baby.