he was born and immediately when he was
taken out of me he was passed by me and
I gave him a kiss and then they took him
to the nursery he was taken to the
nursery and that was the last time I saw
him so the next morning what happened
the next morning they bring all the
babies back to the moms and their rooms
so at noon I got my baby and when I saw
him the first impression was this is not
the same baby that I saw last night and
I looked at him and I remembered that
the baby that I saw was just like my
husband and this baby did not look like
my husband and I started to tell all the
stuff that was in the hospital and they
all insisted and said no this is your
baby
you were medicated last night after the
c-section we they put like extra
medication on me so I was not they said
you were not aware this is your baby
I asked the doctors they said this is
your baby so I'm like okay this is my
baby but your mother's instinct told you
it was not and yet still you took that
child you brought that child home here
to Texas yes I took the baby on the
fourth day at the hospital I was going
home and I I had visit my friends came
and I told them till that day look do
you think they changed my baby and my
friends would say no no it's the same
baby I asked like at least 2030 I don't
know how many people everybody that came
and they all said no this is your baby
so I went home and then my husband came
from Texas he was he was in Texas and
the baby the day started to go by and
his features his skin everything started
to change and he started to not look
anything like neither one of us so I had
that thought in my heart in my mind
I was nursing the baby I was taking care
of him loving him
like ours and I started to fall in love
with the baby and this feeling was so
difficult because you love this baby
like your baby but then inside I had to
thought what if this is not my baby what
if this is not my child where is my
child where is my baby
and I I tried to put that thought away I
said no I'm this is not real this cannot
happen to me this is Hollywood this is
the movies and that thought came back
and forth every day every week I could
not resist that thought that feeling and
I took the decision to go and make a DNA
test so one week before I never told my
husband anything I never mentioned to
him I would just ask him hey do you
think the baby looks like us and you
know like what was your answer rich I
just accepted it is my child and now I
look back at the pictures right around
the time that we came to Dallas when he
was 3 months old and I'm shocked that I
never suspected because you can see that
it's just obviously not my child if you
look at some of the pictures how I
didn't I don't know how I didn't ask
myself you just you don't think about
these things I think we were in love we
were in love with the baby and even when
I did the DNA test I thought I was
betraying him that was a feeling I had
I'm betraying my son but I cannot live
with this and I said well if he I
thought if this is my son this DNA test
is just going to prove that he's mine
and this thought has to unbranded me
when the DNA test results came back what
did they say
0.0% the mother of the baby it was
impossible that that was your son
impossible zero point zero percent and
how did you feel at that moment
I just felt on the floor it was my body
could even resist the pain the thought
that the baby that I had been nursing
taken care of loving him bathing him
that he was not mine and then I had
another thought which came with it
where's my baby so I had two thoughts
what was going to happen with this baby
and where's my baby so I just fell on
the floor started to cry and cry and cry
and then my husband came and he's like
what happened and I and I'm like how am
I going to tell him what am I going to
tell him and I couldn't even speak for
minutes and minutes and give him the
news that way and rich did you I mean
how did you feel when Mercy told you I
was just overwhelmed and just confused I
didn't even know how to process I
remember the first trauma to me was oh
my goodness I have a child and my child
is somewhere out there in the world
where is he who's taking care of him
what happened to him why did this happen
am I ever going to see him again and I
just felt like a panic that my only
child was lost or stolen I I didn't know
what it was and that was the concern it
was after that that I started to process
we might lose the child that we've been
raising for three months and I remember
that was sort of the second trauma of
the incident is that we might lose one
and I remember in the beginning that was
so difficult to talk about losing Jacob
wasn't it and so we started saying to
each other and hoping that we would be
able
our hope in the beginning was that we
would find our real child but we would
also be able to keep the one that we had
raised for three months and that we
would have two children was our hope but
I remember I was the first one that
started saying it you know like look at
this child has a legitimate family we're
going to have to give him away and I
think I was the one that accepted that
first they did track down your
biological child they did DNA tests on
other babies born at the hospital and
they found your biological child and
then very quickly I think within a
matter of hours you had to hand over the
child you've been caring for I remember
that the judge called me into her room
and she said we found your baby and I I
when she told me that I thought like I
couldn't even her words were like what
you found my baby I couldn't understand
it I couldn't believe it it was it was
something wonderful great relief and
then my lawyer in the car he said we
were celebrating we were can you imagine
after all these weeks looking for him
and we were like crazy and calling
everybody it wasn't a big party and my
lawyer said we have to bring the other
baby and I'm like what he said yeah we
found their family and you have to hand
them in and I couldn't believe it
that's when I realized until he told me
you have to give the other baby I was
like oh my and we got there and we had
to like garage we were rushed in we have
to go quickly just bring the baby and we
barely got time to say goodbye and we
got I got all his clothes
and we took him in the office and we
handed him in and that was the most
difficult part I think of all the
situation and then at the same time it's
so sad we got our baby and that was so
happy another feeling we finally saw him
and when he looked he saw as he was
smiling and he was laughing and it was
so something happen real really
beautiful a he was dressed just like my
husband and Jacob was dressed like his
that too it was we did we didn't know
each other we don't know anything but
the babies when we took them and we
switched they each were dressed like
their father it was really nice and we
celebrated we took Moses home and it was
beautiful it was a a blessing of God I
got to nurse him too without any
problems and he adjusted he never cried
he's he's amazing his adjustment how
peaceful very peaceful and happy and
smiling and very happy very happy and
when we got home we realized that we
didn't have any clothes for him because
we took all the other clothes were the
other baby and we're like oh my what are
we going to do tonight
because we got home very late and then
our friends started to come and bring
gifts and you know but you don't even
think about that you know
your thoughts are like it's it's it's
like an emotional roller coast Germany
contacts with Jacob now the last time we
we we saw was in when we got their
footprints and birth certificate and we
got to spend about two hours with the
other family and yeah I mean a lot of
pictures and videos - do you think you
will continue to have a place in his
life over the years or is that not going
to be possible so we would like that
yeah I really would love to see justice
in this situation Matthew I'd like to
know what happened how did this happen
because I don't want to see it happen to
another person it's done a terrible
financial damage and emotional damage to
us but but we're here we survived and
God has helped us and comforted us
through the process and everything is
turning out okay