"Sitting in her hospital room in Marion, Ill., 17-year-old Kassie Hopkins knew something was wrong when she looked at the newborn officials told her she had given birth to a day before.
Mary Jo Bathon had the same feeling but left Heartland Regional Medical Center with the hospital's assurance that the baby she had was her son. She headed home to Pinckeyville, an hour away, making a stop to buy baby supplies.
But in fact, hospital workers had inadvertently switched the babies."
To beat all, when the hospital realized the mistake (according to the article), they left a message on one of the mother's answering machines, specifically "asking her to return the baby and retrieve her real son". Not that there's anything actually appropriate to say in that situation. Just, wow.Such mix-ups are not a rare occurrence, though fortunately few of these reports are from American hospitals.
