When TikToker Kiki (@estate.seller.kik) was born, she was switched at birth. She was born in Oregon in 1971. She was born white with platinum blonde hair.
Her mother was Mexican, and her father was Native American. Another woman gave birth within the same hour as her mom. She had dark hair, and her husband had blonde hair.
“This is the 1970s, and for those of you who don’t know, back then, the fathers were not in the room when the child was born,” explained Kiki.
“It was like, drug up mom, take the baby, and dad can come back in a couple of hours.”
After she was born, her dad left to go shopping. When he returned, he went directly to the nursery and saw a tanner, dark-haired baby.
He naturally assumed this was his daughter. Then, he went back to Kiki’s mom’s room. A dark-haired baby was brought to the room, and her mom immediately stated that it wasn’t her baby. She insisted that her baby was blonde.
At the same time, the other woman was given Kiki, and she also insisted that she wasn’t her baby. So, both babies were taken back to the nursery.
According to Kiki’s father, it took a couple of hours before the nurses brought her back. According to her mother, it was only 20 minutes.
Ultimately, the babies were swapped due to looks and the two mothers’ insistence.
“There wasn’t any process in place to keep the parent and child together,” said Kiki. “The nurses looked at the babies, looked at my mom’s birth certificate, which says Mexico, and just switched them. They literally took our bracelets off and switched the bracelets.”
“So, I think back then, that kind of stuff was normal and definitely didn’t understand the genetics like we do now. I just think at that time, you were more at the will of human behavior than you were anything to do with science.”
Although Kiki believes she was switched at birth, she does not plan on taking a DNA test. In the comments section, many TikTok users shared their own switched-at-birth stories.
“My great-aunt drew on my foot with Sharpie before the nurses took me so my family would know they got the right baby back,” commented one user.
“My dad was switched at birth! My grandma only knew because the switched baby wasn’t latching on well, and my dad had been drinking her dry!” exclaimed another.
“My brother was born in ’78. He was a redhead, and the nurses gave my mom a dark-skinned, dark-haired baby to nurse. She was out of it, so she did so until she realized it wasn’t her baby. She argued with the nurses about his hair color and weight until they figured out he was in the room next door with a Spanish woman. My mom remembers the nurses being so casual about it and switching them back like nothing happened,” wrote a third.
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