BBC News: Couple’s wait over newborn mix-up
A couple were forced to endure a five-week wait for DNA results to find out if a newborn baby was theirs.
A midwife at Furness General Hospital told Sarah Wilson and Martyn Cahill, from Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, their new 6lb 12oz baby was a boy.
The couple named the child Ryan William, but later discovered they had a girl when giving her a bath, and feared they had the wrong baby.
Five bloody weeks. It only takes like an hour in CSI.
I really do hope this is just a mix-up over the gender rather than that they were given the wrong child. It must surely be the bureaucracy and the system rather than the process that takes so long as there will be a queue of DNA tests waiting to be done presumably. But couldn’t this particular test be fast-tracked considering it’s urgency.
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