TIL that up to 3.7% of pregnancies have misattributed paternity where the child (and possibly the mother) thought the father was someone else
TIL that up to 3.7% of pregnancies have misattributed paternity where the child (and possibly the mother) thought the father was someone else
Fatherhood used to be a matter of faith. What changes when science makes it a matter of fact?
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Why is it always the paternity that's questioned? Why does no one ever demand a maternity test to see who the real mother is??
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I mean... The child never saw who gave birth to them, so there's that...
Tbf it's worth asking if you are looking at a baby's phenotype and wondering if your partner was unfaithful. Mix-ups happen sometimes and it's possible that the hospital gave you back the wrong baby
I was a mix-up that was quickly resolved because the baby they gave my mom had the wrong bits. It happened again with my sibling. And my other sibling. For the exact same reasons. We all joke that none of us are really related.
But it really makes you think...
Man that is one distracted nurse.
Tammy’s just playin’.
Hopefully since covid forced a lot of hospitals to shut down their nurseries and switch to what's called "rooming in" where a baby stays with mom pretty much at all times, this happens less than it already did.
Heck, I'm just out in podunk Oklahoma, where we are a bottom 10 state for women, but even here, the hospital we picked to have our kid does all procedures in the room right where you can see after baby is born, and hands them right back to mom. They never leave you (unless you elect for a circumcision for some god awful reason), which is a huge relief for me. I was gonna be ripping out that epidural and catheter so fast to follow my fucking infant if they took him from out of my sight for even a minute.
That's cool and it makes a lot more sense to me. Unless there's some major complications with the birth it seems like you could handle everything in the same room. But I'm not a midwife so what do I know?
When I was young I remember a slew of baby thieves getting arrested. They would steal babies in maternities and sell them, or sometimes a lone mother would steal the banner for herself. The person would grow up without knowing they were not with their biological mother.
A while ago I saw a post on Lemmy about a baby abduction ring in Georgia. Apparently they abducted and sold thousands of babies throughout the years.
They told the actual parents that their baby had just died and had already been incinerated