Switched Babies Given to Right Irish Mothers
From Reuters
DUBLIN, Ireland — Two Irish mothers, each given the other’s newborn baby in a hospital mix-up, have agreed to swap the infants after tests ordered by the High Court established which was which.
A spokesman in the main hospital in Portlaoise, central Ireland, said Saturday night that the results of blood and tissue tests have established the identities of the babies and the parents have agreed to exchange them.
One of the mothers had insisted that the baby she had nursed for five days was hers.
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