Sarah wondered how a mother could fail to recognise her own baby . . .

My mother told me that while she was recovering from my birth, she was handed the wrong baby and the
nurse refused to believe her until she pointed to the ID bracelet. The mother who was holding me was
completely oblivious to the fact that I was not her daughter. How could this have happened? In those
days, labouring women in England were commonly given a mixture of scopolamine and oxygen. They
experienced birth in a drug-induced haze and their babies were whisked away before they had regained
their senses. It would have been relatively easy to have mixed up the babies if two had been born
within minutes of each other. Of course, such things are almost unknown today . . .

Chag sameach, happy holidays, to all.
Norma Ritter, IBCLC, LLLL
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