Shocked women learn they were switched at birth, 60 years later – ‘They kept it a secret’

Two women in Norway were shocked to learn they were switched at birth and found out nearly 60 years later because of what they claim was a government cover-up. The women, who are now both 59, are working with Karen Dokken — one of the mothers who received the wrong infant — to sue the state over the “secret swap,” the Associated Press reported. Dokken had given birth to a baby girl on 14 February 1965 at a private hospital in central Norway, Eggesboenes, where the babies were kept in the same room while the mothers rested in separate rooms. A week later, she returned home with a baby, named Mona by her mother, who she assumed was her offspring. The mother found it odd that her daughter had black curls, but assumed she got them from her husband’s dark-haired mother. Much later she realized that Mona was not hers […]
Source: News Beast

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