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It won't happen. At our hospital, the baby does not leave your room unless they are ill and need intervention. If that happens, Dad follows along with the baby to make sure she's never out of his sight.

Can you tell I just don't want to think about it?

My LO never left the room, but the thought did cross my mind. I'd like to think I would know, but you might not really. I think you'd just have to move next door to the other family and hope that you all got along.

I should add that my ex was almost switched at birth. The nurses gave a different baby to his mom but she rejected it and had to force the nurses to find her real baby!

@Rubies: Wow!! How come?

@sweetchic: I've seen it, but I couldn't get into it. In that case, I'd seriously wonder. I mean the ginger, fair skinned family ended up with a partially hispanic-looking daughter (and vice-versa) - what the heck?! lol I would have wondered. Plus you generally see YOUR baby right after birth, you would know the difference between a ginger and a dark baby (even if they had no hair at that point).

Oh gosh... I have no idea what I'd do. Sue? Take legal action?
But like you, I'd get them switched in the early weeks/months, but I think it'd be hard cause I'd probably already be attached to the other baby.

Later on, i would probably seek out my biological child, but not give up "my" child, and instead try to be a part of both their lives. I'd hope the other set of parents would want the same and that we got along/connected on a deep, familial level.

@mrbee: LOL...I just thought there was NO way I could belong to my parents! I am so different from them...I don't resemble either parent...And my mom totally loves my brother more than me!

@Rubies: My siblings used to tell me my parents found me on the side of the road.

When I first saw LO, I didn't recognize her like I thought I would. I was sitting there thinking, well I didn't actually see her come out of my who-ha, how do I know she's mine? I guess that's the crazy that comes with all of those hormones when you give birth.

@Crumbs: OH my gosh, that is crazy!!!

I can not see this happening at the hospital I'm going to. Within minutes of birth both my DD and I had these bracelets strapped onto us (mine=wrist, hers=ankle) that when they were within a certain distance from each other they would play a tune, if they weren't a match they wouldn't play the tune. We sent DD to the nursery a couple times and the nurse wouldn't leave the room until the tune played.

Funny story along these lines: I'm an identical twin and my family periodically jokes that my sister and I were switched at birth because on our birth documents, I was a 1/2" longer yet all through life my sister has been 1/2" taller. However, my sister has some prominent veins just below the skin on her right ankle which have been there since birth and I don't so that isn't actually the case.