Wednesday, June 10, 2009

what would you do?



Q: You discover that your wonderful one-year-old child is, because of a mix-up at the hospital, not yours.

Would you want to exchange the child to correct the mistake?


source:
Brain Candy Mind Games.

9 comments:

  1. that's a difficult question, and one that a family had to face here last year. Yes, I think I'd want my own child back... blood is thicker, as they say. But I would hope to keep contact with the other, like an adopted child. But my own child carries MY genes and traits.

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  2. I agree with Dorrie, I wouldn't be able to turn my back on my genes but of course a bond would already have formed with the other child sio would be very hard to let that one go as well. 1 year would be hard but not so bad as the 2 year old Russian boys recently swapped back (see my post of May 27).

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  3. What is wrong with both families, getting together and keeping the bonds going? For me, I would have to seriously think about the blood is thicker than water, but on the other hand, I was never so far away from any of my kids after they were born. Even the youngest one who was in special care for a while.

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  4. not a problem since I'm not going to have kids.

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  5. I don't know what I would do. What a difficult situation. Emotionally devastating in so many ways.

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  6. Have to agree with the previous commenters. I would absolutely want my own child but I would never want to lose touch with that baby I raised for a year.

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  7. No way. I love him too much.

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  8. Does my real baby sleep through the night?
    I'm KIDDING!
    Questions like that make my brain hurt.

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  9. I couldn't imagine having to make a decision like that! But the only mother a baby has ever known...I couldn't be the one to take it away.
    I so feel for the families that have been affected!

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