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Gotta assume that are some point a nurse handed someone the wrong baby. Although the fact this dude's mom kept the bracelet for almost 40 years and never fucking questioned why it has someone else's name...

Says the bracelet misidentified the baby, so it didn't have "someone else's name," it had the name the parents expected. It was just on the wrong baby.

“Kyle is still my son — that is never going to change,” Evelyn Newton, who raised him as her own, told The Associated Press in a phone interview Friday. “But I feel robbed of the life I should have had with my biological son. You can’t go back and replace 35 years. First steps, driving a car, getting married — how do you make up for that?”

but you had all those experiences. for all you know your life would have been worse with your biological son.

Sounds like a simple swap error to me. Probably the nurse who was affixing the bracelets got distracted and got the two mixed up, so each baby ended up with the other's bracelet. North Dakota and only two babies born that day makes me think it was a small hospital where a lot of things were being done by hand, and not a lot of checks were being made.

I've heard in North America, they basically take the baby from the mother as soon as it's born and put it in a "baby room" with all the other babies. If that's true, no wonder there's so many mix-ups. Where I live, the baby stays with the mum when possible