She Finally Wants To DNA Test Her Son Because She Believes That, Years Ago, She Was Handed The Wrong Baby After Giving Birth At The Hospital
When this woman gave birth to her son, he had complications, so the medical team took him away immediately after the birth to care for him before she was able to see him. Then, she experienced something strange.
“They brought him back to us, finally, and it’s so painful to admit, but I looked at him and crystal-clear thought, ‘Whose child is this???'” she said.
Ever since she had that thought, she never spoke it out loud to anyone. She experienced immense guilt for even having the thought, but it has continued to nag at her.
Even though she was in a daze and couldn’t think straight because she’d just been in labor for so long, she still had this clear thought that she hadn’t been able to forget.
“They tucked a super chubby, super ruddy, super lovable, and squeezable baby into my arms. But he looked nothing like any of my other kids when they were born. Or any of the other babies in the extended family,” she explained.
All the babies in her extended family have lighter skin and are long and skinny. The baby the nurses gave her was shorter and chubbier, with darker skin. He was cute, but she didn’t feel connected to him when they laid him in her arms.
Several years later, her son still doesn’t have any family resemblance. She acknowledged that none of her kids look at all like one another, but there are tiny similarities and other personality traits that they have in common. It’s not the case with her son, though.
“I can’t find any similarities between his demeanor or physical structure and the rest of the entire extended family,” she shared.
“Not eyes, not lips, not smile, not hands, not feet, not personality, or anything else. Obviously, this definitely happens to families, but I’ve always wondered.”
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She clarified that she deeply loves and cares about her son. So, she was understandably crushed that her son recently received a terrible health diagnosis.
The disease he has is genetic, so it would make sense for there to be a history of this disease running in the family, but there hasn’t been.
This diagnosis caused her to begin debating on whether or not this is her biological son, and she’s contemplating the idea of getting a DNA test without telling him or anyone else. She wants to find out if he has other biological parents with a history of other health problems.
However, she’s unsure what she would do going forward after receiving the results of the DNA test. She doesn’t have any idea what she would or should do if she learns that he’s not her biological son, questioning whether she should attempt to learn about his family’s history or if she should tell him the news.
Plus, she questioned whether she would have to inform his biological parents or if she would be able to make a complaint against the hospital.
But she knows she’s a sweet person and wouldn’t feel comfortable yelling at medical professionals. She hoped that instead of speaking to multiple people, she’d be able to confide in one person willing to hear her out.
If he turns out not to be her biological son, she worries that breaking the news to him could emotionally destroy him, and she would hate to do that.
She already knows that she won’t tell her son’s father, an ex-partner, because her ex isn’t a good person, and she predicts that if he found out their son wasn’t biologically theirs, he would consider their son flawed in some way.
What advice would you give her?
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