Meet Alice Plebuch, A Woman Who Discovered That Her Father Was Switched At Birth | Megyn Kelly TODAY

Alice Plebuch always thought she was Irish-Catholic until a DNA test gave her startling news - and led her to uncover that her father had been switched at birth with another baby born the same day. She is joined on Megyn Kelly TODAY by Pam Benson, daughter of the man with whom her father was switched.
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Meet Alice Plebuch, A Woman Who Discovered That Her Father Was Switched At Birth | Megyn Kelly TODAY

[@kittimcconnell2633]

My mother's third child got switched in the hospital, September 1961. But she knew instantly that the child was not hers, because the child the nurse brought her looked nothing like her two older children. Happily, we got our real sister back before Mom left the hospital. :D

[@sarahkarlsen2782]

Kitti McConnell or did you? Hahaha have you all had your DNA tested?

[@katherinetutschek4757]

How lucky

[@kimt1054]

Wow!

[@disneyprincessintraining2725]

I work at a hospital, and this is a huge concern for all of us. We put armbands on the baby and mom that have the same name and ID number. We have to check it before and after, and after checking we make sure the parents recognize the child as their baby. Check the armband EVERY time.

[@veronicalalalala]

poor grandpa had to live in a orphanage while he had a family all because a hospital but then i would of felt bad for the other child :( not a win win

[@brendabaker3953]

oki cools I was in an orphanage too

[@brucegl4298]

Would HAVE felt bad....

[@hamburgcowboy]

@@brucegl4298 thank you

[@elviradelfin5130]

What an amazing story

[@makisek1696]

Similar case happened a few years ago in my country. A dad was laughed at because his daughter didn't look like him. They started a research and foud out that two baby girls were switched in the hospital. It was very traumatizing for both families because they were already emotionally attached to the girl they were raising. I think that after all these years emotional scars are healed and both families are still in touch.

[@lisagarrow2713]

😊

[@deegrant6426]

How sad is this. I cried for the poor grandpa that was sent to the orphanage.

[@joyceannwarnkehigh3189]

When my baby was 18 hours old the nurses came in & gave me a tiny little baby boy. I refused to touch him and asked for MY Baby. They said 'this is your baby'. I'm like, 'Yes this baby does look alot like my baby, but this baby is tiny. My son is 8lbs. 14oz , and I Want My Baby'. Well I marched down to maternity a went to pick up My Son. I said, 'See, they look alike but My Baby is much bigger'. They finally checked & weighed the boys and gave me My Son. Later my mother said that, that had happened when she had my brother Tim, at the Vancouver General Hospital. Only they gave her a girl and told her she didn't have a girl, she had a boy. Strange how people who are trained would make such mistakes.

[@diannewi]

Truly makes you wonder how many babies were switched. Scary.

[@alisalauzon9291]

Wow too ur mom and you, scary...

[@Opalstorme]

When I was a 1st time mom in 1989 I wondered how I could tell that this child was mine, before they took her away to go to the nursery. My outer toes are clubbed., one on one side and two on the other, I looked at the babies feet and identical to mine. Same with my son in 1991.

[@MultiApeksha]

This is really bad.This could change your destiny by 'mistake'

[@sharonkarelse]

My Mother had the same thing happen to her. When I was born they used forceps and it left a small mark. They gave her a baby girl and she looked and said this is not my baby because my baby has a mark on the left side of her face from the forceps. The nurses went back to the nursery and came back with me and Mom recognized the me and the nurses could see the mark. She pleaded with my Mom not to say anything as it would cause a lot of trouble. My Mom mentioned it several times as I was growing up. Mom said if it was not for that mark she might have gone home with the wrong baby.

[@ashleybucci23]

My mom found out her dad wasn't her dad last year via ancestry and 23 and me .......we still are in shock her biological dad and her are now working through alot and communicating. Crazy crazy all these stories that come out

[@nicolemarnach8769]

i suddenly feel like i need to get my DNA tested.

[@patreasure4963]

Nicole Marnach

[@duchessliz2415]

I did. Family lore is crap. My grandma always claimed that she was half Native American, but she has blue eyes so I called bull crap and took the DNA test and I'm only 0.1% Native American and the test said my closest likely 100% Native American ancestor was a 4th-7th great grandparent. I started doing a family tree before I did the DNA test and the first family member I couldn't track was a 4th great grandmother. Proof I was right and I can say HAA! I like being right! xD

[@allasandrachung9407]

Nicole Marnach as

[@jazilmohamed1365]

me two

[@cynthiakitchenhomeandlife1497]

Right?!?!

[@sharondavidson2581]

I wonder how many babies have been switched at birth?

[@ajcafe567]

A lot

[@pingyu5141]

Hospital personnels back then must have a hand in switching those babies KNOWINGLY. They're playing with the lives of those people involved! It's sick!

[@SilenceIsGolden64]

I don't know, but there are far too many mothers have been told that their baby is dead

[@gregh7400]

Considering the incompetence of hospital workers, too many.

[@dontdomeboo81]

Tons I'm sure

[@nickisnyder3450]

Often the problem with learning your children were switched is that you want the one you lost plus you want the one you've bonded to...yet you can't have both & must give one up. In this case if the family had known, they could have adopted the other & had both. Soooo sad that this mistake was never uncovered earlier.

[@sualee3332]

Omg, this is so sad that her dad was raised in an orphanage. I'm glad her dad had them and they loved him very much. I was so paranoid when I had my first born. She was taking away from me to get all these kinds of test because she was under weight. Luckily, she had a unique birth mark.

[@TiMalice2009]

My mom scratched me when I was born to avoid any mix up.

[@glittermama]

wow!

[@alisalauzon9291]

Lol. Nothing wrong with just making sure lol.. That's so cute she did that!!! So sweet...

[@MikkoHere]

I'd use a sharpie 😎

[@debbierogers9126]

🎶 Lovvve Hurts 🎶

[@soniarena5250]

TiMalice2009 😂😂

[@grayskindablue]

I used to think my father was crazy (er) when he’d tell the story of drawing a little pen line on my ankle and then following nurses around the hospital after I was born. (I was a month early, placenta detached or something, not the point, so they were running around with me getting my oxygen levels up.) But now I can appreciate it, because I went back to that hospital and they absolutely could’ve lost babies, they barely could find a stethoscope.

[@saraho9568]

Thank God hospitals are changing now. Your babies stay in the room with you until they've been tagged. It's a little harder to make mistakes when they have the ankle bracelet on.

[@kylieharrison3782]

Unfortunately still seems to be a common occurrence

[@claire040776]

This story makes you wonder about one’s own heritage and what secrets are out there just waiting to be uncovered!

[@dparks3784]

Is it me? Megyn Kelly has the oddest way of interviewing people. It is almost painful.

[@nat7041]

Its you.

[@dparks3784]

lol. Don't think so.

[@mmar710]

yeah...its you!

[@phoenixdavida8987]

D Parks no its not you. ive seen countless similar comments on other videos of her show.

[@dparks3784]

That's true, but what I mean is her interviewing style is cold, you don't feel she has any empathy for the people she is interviewing. It feels like she is trying to seem human.

[@ThankHeaven]

They both handled that so well.Very classy ladies. I have a lot of respect for both of them ❤️

[@kellyr5722]

My dad was almost switched at birth my dad was brought to my nana and woman who was in the bed cross from her said thats not ur baby my nana was like no it is and ignored her wasnt until she went to change babys diaper and realised the baby was actually a girl and that the 2 babies looked alike lol

[@AlphaMacho]

Kelly R bruhh

[@gypsieladie]

See. I've always felt Buddhist but my family says I'm Baptist. Maybe a DNA test will tell me my REAL religion. 😂😂😂

[@brileeka]

Jewish is a ethincity and religion, Catholic is not stupid.

[@pati2570]

brileeka uhm Judaism is not an ethnicity babez issa religion that now supposedly has a phenotype for their follows...

[@llcooljay520]

brileeka I think she was making fun of the fact that Megyn kept mentioning “Irish Catholic” as though Catholicism denotes racial heritage like Judaism does.

[@rdavis1929]

@@brileeka Is it though... Israeli should be the region of Nationality right?

[@kat7047]

I just did the AncestryDNA thinking it would come back mostly German. My whole life my entire family including my grandfather always talked about how we are German. Both of my parents said we were German. My results came back 80% British. We were all shocked! My aunt did it and got similar results. Not sure how the “we’re German” thing came about but somehow our whole family was wrong.

[@joannemurray1607]

Kat Ann I

[@danak4064]

Same exact thing happened to me. My dad always said that he was 100% German and my mom always thought she was a little bit German as well. My results came back only 5% German!! My grandparents on my moms side also took an ancestry dna test and it linked me to them so I know that I wasn’t switched at birth but I still have a lot of questions about how my DNA is so different from what I thought.

[@mr.kingofphenomenal4629]

Dana K Well it depends on how much chromosomes your parents gave you. You get half from both your parents. So your farther DNA only gave you 5% German.

[@dorothyjaques74]

The British Royal Family is Germanic. It was because of World War I, the royal family legally changed their surname (last name) from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the English sounding Windsor. So you can be German with British Roots

[@alisalauzon9291]

Intresting.. maybe a German r elitive stressed it a lot so by word of mouth it got passed down...

[@janet5610]

OMG.... Her poor grandfather. Maybe they have no regrets, but I imagine the grandfather who was orphaned when he actually had a caring family instead of an absent one would have, if he would have known..

[@lanaelewis4942]

And this is 1 reason I have my babies at home...

[@olyvoyl9382]

My children were born in the late sixties and early seventies and they had a bracelet with their surname on it right away. I think baby switching happens less frequently nowadays.

[@shellchenonceau7832]

This just shows that DNA does NOT have anything to do with who we ultimately become as people (and who we are raised by & ultimately choose to love). Each person is free. Your DNA does not rule your mind, nor your heart.💚💛💜

[@conniepratt2039]

Shell Chenonceau Thank you~🤗

[@larry-naylor]

Actually if you look at twin studies, DNA plays a massive part. What this shows is that race is a social construct rather than a biological truth.

[@larry-naylor]

Starla Rose Really? Either I'm stupid or you're very good at reading between the lines because I've reread it several times just to make sure I'm not missing anything and I still come back to my original point that DNA is massively important and that race is a social construct, neither of which the OP came close to addressing in her OP.

[@forreal245]

Shell Chenonceau...You are so wrong! DNA has a GREAT deal to do with a person. Environment is very important but DNA rules!

[@adalonejohannessen8302]

Shell Chenonceau actually, we are some 6 very very similar siblings to our dad and we never grew up together untill his funeral.. we laugh the same way, same interests and much more.. we are definitely more similar to the dad we hardly met, than the family we lived with (mum and her bf)

[@eshore389]

I was nearly switched at birth! There was another baby girl born the same day, and back then, they didn't have private rooms. The nurse brought me and the other baby in, and handed me to mom's roommate and the other girl (whos name is Kelly) to my mom. Mom said "This is not my baby. My baby is bald. This one has a head full of hair." She looked at the other lady's baby and saw that they had been switched. No one reported it or anything since it was made right. My mom worked for years as a cake decorator at Kroger. She and I look just alike, so i wonder if the switch hadn't been found, if i would see her at the grocery store and feel a connection.

[@nsgisallheart]

How scarey! It's 💔to find out that his Dad was in foster care bc of a mistake!!

[@DJRenee]

RIGHT

[@sharonrichards7656]

Foster care? It was an orphanage he was brought up in. What I wonder is where did the portrait picture come from of the man with the three children? If this was his father, why was he in an orphanage? Where are the other two children?

[@angelaangela6875]

A good idea to DNA test baby and family before leaving hospital as a requirement.

[@kathyyoung1774]

angela angela My daughter and son in law and I never let my grandson out of our sight until we took him home.

[@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim]

@Brenda Baker Tell us how you really feel, but in lower caps. Capitals indicate yelling, and make you and your message crazy, rude, and obnoxious. People like you are why I left church

[@VintageRose75]

@@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim I know it is hard, because I have been there. But, please don't let imperfect, misguided people keep you from the Lord. Ignore them. We are not there for them, anyway.

[@kateruterbories2692]

This is sad and amazing. When my daughter was born she was the only baby born in the hospital that week. However, we were given armbands immediately and my husband never left her, not even for a minute. The fear of a switch was a big thing in our little town hospital. Even if it wasn't possible......

[@harrygeorge3220]

Hello Kate How are you doing today?

[@RSMR7.]

Kate, my husband and I did the same thing. We watched our daughter like a hawk after she was born. My husband never let her out of his sight.

[@Margarita1988]

Why does the presenter keep talking as though the viewer doesnt understand whats going on? She seems clearly the one confused.

[@heather4089]

I think I should get a DNA too, just in case I’m not my parents child!! My sisters always treat me like the black sheep. My parents got divorced and my maternal grandparents raised me. My mom has always treated me like a stranger, at least that’s the way I feel all the time. She doesn’t treat her other 5 kids like that is just with me.

[@sandram6828]

I've had my DNA done and my ethnicity wasn't what I was expecting. My brother also had his done and his shows a bit of Jewish and I don't. So it's coming from my male side. Which we don't know anything about since my 3rd great grandfather is an unknown. Another relative had his done. I contacted him for more info and he said he was adopted. But due to the shared matches we had I knew what line he was from. In the meantime I contacted some other relatives and had him in contact with his birth family within 2 days. And it was a very happy ending.

[@emilyseye9483]

Sandra M I’m confused. Is your brother your half brother?

[@sourceit2124]

I read her whole story in the WaPost. An incredible story.

[@Juliemorgana]

What an amazing story! And Alice did great detective work to figure out what actually happened.

[@harrygeorge3220]

Hello Julie How are you doing today?

[@marissathomas9327]

Wow the fact they both passed before knowing the truth is so devastating 🥺🥺

[@notebookluvr]

Really confusing, although i think i understand most of it. I found out i have a half sister from my dad through her doing an ancestry DNA test last year. We were able to meet a couple months later. I love her! I always wanted a sister, i have 4 brothers!

[@barbiecurlz4130]

My great grandmother tattooed her twins right after birth. #1 and #2 on the bottom of their feet. Her name was Frutosa, we called her grandma Fruity.

[@The_Food_Police]

Megyn's fake personality is killing me

[@shannonlee3355]

CommonSenseDictator hi May name is Shannon lee now Pedraza, my email is [e-mail] this has been in lighting, I found my mom she was 12 my dad 19 his is a missionary!! Richard Allen bean ! Very long tale! Grandson of you Leroy bean ! They reject me glam ! Please contact me! I really just want a picture! 360 920 8809 please help ! I found my mom or my ex husband did as a Anniversary gift. Awesome that lead to many more mystery’s. I saw your videos by mistake I never knew I was not the only one

[@m.elizabeth2902]

Yeah. She has great hair going for her though😁

[@kierak8345]

Lol same

[@liurodriguez5964]

This is one of the craziest stories I have seen in cases like this. Wow unbeliwvable.

[@kimt1054]

That is hard to wrap one's head around! It's amazing that she was able to figure that out.

[@TinekeWilliams]

My Mum had a 9 lb girl in a catholic maternity home in New Zealand in 1967. She got handed a tiny wee baby and she said to the nun that it was not her baby. We all have blue eyes, this baby had brown eyes and a swarthy skin. My sister was blond as my parents came from Sweden. Took three days before my sister was handed back. The other baby’s parents took my sister home and had her christened, wrong name off course. Finally my father went to our lawyer and things got straightened out. Nowadays they would be taken to court.

[@theobserver_224]

This is the weirdest thing ever honestly ,so sad . What sort of hospital was this

[@carriebizz]

ginger kokoma to be fair it was 1913 where there was no technology

[@alaly1027]

Honestly not that weird, it was probably more common than we know. It is why we take the precautions we do to identify babies **because** babies did get switched at birth in the past.

[@dawnshults7992]

Mojibola Adeyeye 1913

[@sheilaaskew5486]

Ms. Kelly doesn't have the personality to do this type of show. She needs something more serious. She seems awkward.

[@ebonynaomi1085]

She is from fox news. Most of the hosts from there are cold too😂

[@MH-hw4uh]

Because she's self-centered, she doesn't do interviews well.

[@buffalosabresloyalist8913]

@Lynda Anthony, factually incorrect. But feel free to spew dishonest propaganda.

[@buffalosabresloyalist8913]

@@ebonynaomi1085, your ignorance about the hosts on Fox belies the truth. You obviously don't watch, or you'd know better.

[@TheClitteratidublin]

The minute Pam appears on screen. I thought the Irish head on her! (ie:she looks Irish)

[@kiml3543]

Sinead Keogh 😂😂😂..I'm Irish and that's exactly what I thought lol..

[@margaretflood4811]

Sinead Keogh I agree that just going by facial appearance, Pam looks of Irish descent and Alice looks more stereotypically Jewish.

[@vshadafly]

I thought gosh she's ugly

[@diversk]

That’s what I thought too lol

[@TheClitteratidublin]

@@vshadafly Grow up.She isn't, and did you need to say that, or write that down? You need to take a good look at yourself woman.

[@rainbowghentian]

I think it just shows how relative ethnicity is and the value we put on it... but that's just me.

[@reason5591]

Wow! This is totally shocking 👀😲

[@catbeara]

Lol I've gone down a rabbit hole watching these DNA test videos. Thank goodness I look so much like my mom and dad, otherwise they'd have me stressed. 😂

[@malikaivillatte9049]

It’s crazy how much are perception of who we are affects how we are

[@claire040776]

What an amazing story!

[@audreypichot8371]

I’m confused... how on earth did they come up as relatives if their fathers were switched at the hospital? If you’re switched at the hospital you don’t have family genetics that would come up in a test like that. Is anyone else with me or did I miss something?

[@sualee3332]

They are talking about the biological relatives.

[@desertfamilyhomestead3127]

I was wondering if maybe they were related on the mother’s side?? But they never explained how they were related.

[@desertfamilyhomestead3127]

@@sualee3332 when you do a dna test with any of these companies they only connect you to people whom you are related to, if their fathers were switched at birth and no relation they wouldn’t have been connected as both boys had different parents.

[@sualee3332]

@Desert Family Homestead there was a match between her and the aunt. That's how she found out.

[@desertfamilyhomestead3127]

@@sualee3332 no offense but DUH!! Yes there is a match for them being relatives but the men were switched at birth one was Jewish and one was Irish so pretty sure the men were not related. The two women in this video were daughters of the switched men. We are wondering how they are related.

[@1Kinglollipop]

Why didnt she let her say he was switched??? She stomped on her toes!!!😧😧😧

[@loveeaother3180]

I dont know if I will ever get a dna test but one thing for sure We are all God's children

[@charlesvelasquez2104]

Truly amazing!

[@stephaniejones8595]

I came back almost 25% Native American... I have freckles and auburn hair .... my father came back 50% Native American ... no one knew!

[@brileeka]

How is that even possible. That means one of your dads parents is native american and no one knew?

[@natscat4752]

Wow, that is cool 😊

[@marymoltumyr6459]

Fascinating.

[@bethanyhanna9464]

Her dad looked super Jewish. I would think the results would have answer a lot of lifelong questions.

[@superfluffykittylove7091]

This woman is super smart

[@kekepro1]

I looked @ mine when they came out. Unless you suffer from short term memory you shouldn’t forget what your baby looks like in such a short period of time.

[@carolrussell8139]

Oh my goodness. I got goosebumps.

[@harrygeorge3220]

Hello Carol How are you doing today?

[@raes306]

How did he end up in an orphanage?

[@emilyseye9483]

It is super sad he ended up in an orphanage since if he went home with his real family he would have had a great childhood. And the other guy got super lucky to not be in his shoes right?

[@Usernames_are_hard_to_think_of]

Well I’m guessing the parents of the son the women believed was her father didn’t want a child/ gave him up for adoption/ died, and it just so happened that they got switched. Even if the babies weren’t switched, one of then would still be an orphan.

[@onewinner8362]

What an incredible story

[@lindapesnell5723]

❤️ Thank You ❤️

[@harrygeorge3220]

Linda How are you doing today?

[@nancyhoward7005]

Blessings

[@Meelany261095]

I was so nervous about this so I never kept an eye out of my child. They weighted her and showed me the baby. They put her in a little bed at the end of the room. And moved my bed next to hers.. Then a nurse placed her in my bed and moved me to the hall.. I got the bed of the window and I was sure nobody would take her by mistake. But others used to put cribs together which wasn't allowed and the nurses would go crazy always checking the brazalete of the hand and leg...

[@robinnelson3868]

The question is, did these nurses switch these babies deliberately? Many health care workers can play God, and they do.

[@heatherolson4952]

My thoughts exactly.

[@MsMdip]

I have never witnessed a colleague "playing God". What do you think is in it for them? A lawsuit, suspended license and possible criminal liability, that´s what.

[@robinnelson3868]

Babies being switched at birth has been going on for years. Look it up. Psychopaths could get a big "control and power" high from disrupting other's lives when no one can trace it back to them. That's how they operate. Yes, I have a degree in Psychology, but it doesn't take a psychologist to see that many healthcare workers could be capable of doing this...as well as actually deliberately taking lives in a hospital setting, as happens quite often. All that is at stake if getting caught is what makes it so exciting to these types of people.

[@franci.f.]

The story of the jewish baby switched to be then abandoned by the wrong mum before 1 yo was a very bitter one. He could have lived a beautiful life with his real family, with his real mum and in a comfortable environment. I told this story to my dad last night at dinner after watching this video and he cried. I m glad Alice was able to reconnect with her grandma.

[@user-ti8bw1ri5h]

His mother did not abandon him, she died. His father couldn't bring him up.

[@angenetchaskia9051]

Iam a darkskin black women.I gave birth to girl her father is Irish...I aready seen her complexion in a dream..When she came out she was red..When they cleaned her off she was pal white...The doctors was stunned..

[@sableindian]

I was thinking the same thing. How can you have DNA for a religion? So weird

[@brileeka]

Jewish you can but not catholic

[@dawnshults7992]

Jiji Solomon Jewish and Irish.

[@Lionforaday]

I'm sure this happened not infrequently in the past. The reason it *doesn't* happen commonly today is because of how very easy it is to have happen. Many newborns look fairly generic and there's a lot of chaos going-on in a Labour & Delivery ward: emergencies, shift changes, general business and, of course, the human carelessness that results in (sometimes fatal) medical errors. I've been at many births, and it's notable for the lengths everyone goes to "confirm" which baby belongs to which mother. There was a proposal, at one point, for DNA testing for all newborns, but this was quickly quashed - likely because of how many babies are born to fathers who are not, in fact, the biological dads (estimates are 4%, or 1-in-25 babies).

[@MsMdip]

Back in medical school, on our genetics clerkship, almost 10% of patients turned out not to be the biological children of their registered fathers. Some of them know, some of them don´t, but if you are getting tested for any reason, proceed with care.

[@Lionforaday]

Agreed. Lots of implications for genetic testing; I now have patients worried after requesting their DNA be "tested" through services like 23andme, only to discover they're at increased risk for this-or-that unsavoury disease! As you say, "proceed with care"!

[@cynthiaj1946]

J Rae zee

[@abby91674]

Most women in the western world give birth in birthing rooms. The babies stay with the mom and so there is no mixing of babies to cause a switch

[@claudineannschultz9726]

Catholic is misused in the term irish catholic, this is not a race.

[@hehe-dw6ky]

Irish protestants tend to not be ethnically Irish, most of them are of a colonial background

[@tchina23]

Not sure what is required now, but 20 years ago, the hospital would put an I.d bracelet on the baby after birth, before taking the baby out of the delivery room. The numbers matching the ones on mom I.d bracelet had to be read back to the nurse to make sure both numbers on each bracelet (mom and baby) matched. Each time the baby was brought to the mom, she had to read the numbers on the bracelets before the baby was handed to her. Not sure if all hospitals policies are the same but I had to do that with each of my children in NYC.

[@mts4428]

We are all one

[@claindastuart6790]

Wow!

[@edithdlp8045]

When my son was born in 2000 they gave him to me as soon as he came out of my womb to avoid this situation. He was always next to me in his crib. So I can 100% be sure he is my son.

[@isabellemyzer1807]

Alice has such an interesting look...I've never seen anyone with such unique physical traits

[@lilyharper6691]

Hmmmm now I’m scared that I was switched at birth 😂 I mean my parents have black curly hair and brown eyes same with my brother but I have strait brown hair freckles and blue eyes so I am worried 😂

[@Tehui1974]

Makes you wonder how often this has happened.

[@donnawoodford8145]

They are talking about their biological fathers. They keep talking about mistake, but maybe the switch was to lead to a deeper understanding of us.

[@EchoBravo370]

what if it happened to you?

[@user-cy4vw1qj9m]

Megan I am Irish and a Catholic but my parents never cooked corn beef or native dish is bacon(ham) and cabbage.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

This happened a lot, watch "Once Upon a Time in America" when the babies get switched.

[@sweetfacebeauty3640]

I'm still confused.

[@Emy53]

So sad that these switches happened. How can these hospitals be so incompetent. I wonder if some of these switches were deliberate. It's difficult to imagine that this level of incompetence happens. What went wrong????

[@maryharvey6909]

My grandfather born in 1913 and raised by his family and well fed, got an orange for Christmas. Just like all the other kids.

[@harrygeorge3220]

Hello Mary How are you doing?

[@nancyhoward7005]

I was raised in an orphanage. Blessings

[@harrygeorge3220]

Hello Nancy How are you doing?

[@bekgeorge9672]

I never let the nurses leave the room with either of my boys, until their hearing test which my husband accompanied them for.

[@jennifursun3303]

where can i find the rest of this program and the one about the lady whoes mom was black but she never knew it till she was older

[@harrygeorge3220]

Hello Jennifer How are you doing today?

[@lindagabaldon950]

A lost identity is a crime and should be a crime. Forgery of women stating the wrong father should be a felony charge. A crime to society and the new life

[@harrygeorge3220]

Hello Linda How are you doing today?

[@Eckertainment]

I've learned from many KZbin vids that if I ever have a baby, I'm demanding to have them dressed in something I brought, toe nail painted, special ankle band, let me draw a star or heart or something on their hospital band, etc. just SOMETHING to make it really hard to take home the wrong child.

[@pottsie_era]

babies getting mixed up is unlikely to happen now due to all the technology and ankle bracelets and other stuff.

[@IDontSuckAtLifeakaJanis3975]

What's weirder yet is that Alice Collins might not be related to those she thought were her first cousins but if the lady beside her on stage's mother was Ashkenazi the 2 of them are likely distant relatives. (Alice's bio dad could have been related to the other lady's mom but very distant-Ashkenazi Jews can trace their ancestors back to 200-300 originating people)

[@bellam31]

In New Zealand your baby does not leave your side after he/she is born (unless its an emergency or something). So I feel like this wouldn’t happen in NZ.

[@timberlygrant5583]

This is true

[@sharonloomis5264]

My grandfather was 5' 4" and my dad was 5' 5'.

[@victoriaarcturus203]

She looks good for an older gal

[@tg7598]

Megyn is so ANNOYING OMG these stories are amazing but shes making me wanna be deaf and blind forever

[@superfluffykittylove7091]

As mother from NYC I am wondering if my children are actually mine because of this episode 🤣

[@gracecharron9281]

I’m a little lost. If they’re switched at birth how did they get in contact? Were they related and switched at birth?

[@douglasvilledarling2935]

Grace Charron when you take a DNA test you see who you are related to and there is a button to email them

[@aliciarobertson4979]

It said that they were born on the same date and in the same hospital.

[@TeriLaFaye]

wow...

[@katherinetutschek4757]

Being raised Irish when you're not, but still feeling the food and traditions are a part of you makes sense, because you were raised in them. Blood is part of who you are, but so is the culture you were raised in.

[@harrygeorge3220]

Hello Katherine How are you doing today?

[@annechildress2721]

Oh wow

[@harrygeorge3220]

Hello Anne How are you doing today?

[@Fabby47]

Oh god I want to be tested too. I know a friend that had a different outcome too. She was supposed to be of German ancestry, it turned out she was of Italian ancestry, lol

[@brileeka]

Could be from migrating, I have heard that their was italians that migrated up into the germany area.

[@DanieVargas]

You know... NYC is NOT known for being conscientious work ethic... I was born in Queens NYC in 1969. And whoever wrote up my birth certificate completely misspelled my first AND middle names... and my mother never caught the typo either!!