2 Minnesota women learn they were switched at birth 72 years ago
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- In Boyd Huppert’s latest edition of Land of 10,000 Stories, DNA tests confirm Denice Juneski and Linda Jourdeans were switched at birth in 1945. kare11.tv/2JFKYyf
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What a blessing to still be alive at age 99 to be able to meet her biological mother, and she looks good for her age, even in a wheelchair.
Can I just say how great the mom looks?! She looks more like their sister and not 99 years old. Wow!!
i know right....wow
Makes you wonder how often this actually happens. Sept 73, the nurses brought me a 10lb baby boy to breastfeed. I had delivered a 7 lb girl.
Yikes! I feared something like that when I gave birth to my 1st son. Fortunately he had a deep cleft in his chin, which helped me recognize him. 😊
Happened to me back in 1970. Another woman and I both gave birth to a baby boy. The rest of the babies were girls. The nurse comes in and hands me the other baby boy. When I tried to nurse him is when I noticed it was a different baby. I called the nurse back and told her of the mistake. She told me it wasn’t the first time someone was handed the wrong baby.
@@cherimontana6868 Thankfully they put leg-bands with moms name on babies right after they are born now, also some hospitals put little alarm bands on babies if people try to take them out of the hospital. A woman was caught trying to take a baby with one and arrested.
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Amazing, the one athletic child in a non-athletic family, and her birth family were all very athletic! Genes are intriguing, what they can do.
These women are so graceful in how they have taken this new revelation. They’ve embraced each other and brought the families together which is wonderful.
Amazing history and still more amazing how well both ladies took the situation trying to made the best out of it.
How sad that the one woman never knew her birth mother, but I think these women have great attitudes (probably after some agony and acceptance at first) and have the view that they now have 2 families.
They are lucky to find that each family were good loving people. I;'ve seen other stories of babies switch at brith where there wasn't a happy ending.
I often wonder if the best solution after discovering the truth about being switched is just to consider BOTH families your family. You'd have bonds with the family that raised you, so how do you deal with it? I'd like to see updates a year later after the truth comes out.
like the TV series Switched at Birth
Funny you say that because I just saw I think Good morning America with Diane Sawyer where two fifty six year olds found out they were switched at birth and that’s exactly what they did! The whole blended family was on the show.
the story has so many implications , on so many levels - this should be studied by everyone in science !
I love that they are both so positive about everything and will stay friends. I think that lifelong friendship is what they gained. Only they will ever fully understand exactly how they feel about everything. 🧡
What an amazing story and this almost happened to my daughter with my husband's co workers daughter. Both his wife and I came to the hospital at the same exact time. They had a scheduled c-section , and my baby just decided to come that day...or luckily the next morning.
Both of our family's have the same surname and both girls were born within hours of each other. The thing that saved this mishap from happening was that our daughter was born in the early hours of the day after the other family had their daughter. We didn't know that this nearly happened until we met with the other couple to let the girls meet each other, when they told us how they were almost given our daughter until one nurse yelled...there are two baby girls with that surname. The funny part and almost one of the craziest parts was that the other couple almost named their daughter the same first name as ours!!! Our daughters name is the other family's grandfather's 1st name. So essentially...my daughter's name is exactly the other family's patriarchs full name!!!! We only live within miles of each other too.
I have a picture from when the girls were about 3 yrs old and from the back, you could have never told them apart!
Doreena Dropuljić Tompkins
thank God this is did not happened..it is a real tragedy😭🙏
Are you certain... Like... Even now. I'd want to test just to be sure lol crazy things in this world.
D T Did anyone check both their DNA; to see if these children are perhaps cousins, whose families might have lost contact down through the years?
@@bonitahobbs2097 No, we never did that. However, when my daughter and their daughter was about 5 yrs. old we went to their home to see each other again. When the girls were both standing with their backs to us, they looked the same! Hair length, color, texture...it was crazy. I've lost touch with them. My husband did do his DNA and this man ( though he may have never tested ) has never shown up.
But, you are correct, they may be of some relation. Long story short another crazy story. A woman who I used to talk to before picking our children up from school everyday, come to find out her husband which they lived one street over from us was my husband's third cousin. We never knew. A friend one day, as we say there at the school, said isn't it funny how your daughter and her son have the same last name and it's spelled the same way? ( this surname can be spelled about 7 different ways ) We both looked at each other, the lady and I, and after this we started questioning family members as to maybe if we're related. Luckily my father-in-law who was born in 1915, was still around at that time and there was one relative that they mentioned that sure enough was a relation to my husband's family. So here we were one street over from each other and third cousins. We're still friends and talk today.
It's a small, small world.
wow...that has to be rather bittersweet
The day after my daughter had her son, while I was there, a hospital aid tried to give her the wrong child. We refused to accept the wrong child and the aid said this is your baby. We asked that this aid never touch our baby again.
I think maybe that's what happened to Sonny & Cher.
They are both lovely ladies. God bless.
What a story❤
So very sad ....
This was a GOOD story! Go watch the 60 Minutes Australia “switched at birth”. There is two videos that capture it from 20mths to 20 years old. That story wasn’t as pleasant!
Incredible story
This was my great aunts❤️❤️
Chloe you should consider doing a TH-cam video
Chloe Elise ...both beautiful ladies...God bless them...we are all brothers and sisters in Christ!
Godsgrace speak for yourself.
Kyla SDL I was....that is my belief sister Kyla.
Wow I lost it when they said she lost a mother at 17 and found another. 😭 So glad they shared their story! I’m adopted, so I can relate to not feeling like I fit in with my family but this... wow. ❤️
I hope the both had happy loving childhoods
The two woman do seem to have some similar facial characteristics.
Now, they can expand their families and increase their love for one another. ❤
♥️♥️ What a story. 💙💛
amazing !!
So glad I had mine at home with a midwife!
Did they sue? They looked alike as babies.
OMG: Sue.. why?
I think it's a neat story. They are now friends. Neither of them said they regret growing up in their families they grew up in. To say so would mean that all adoptions aren't right either.
Sorry!
Wow they actually look alike,
Bethesda Hospital says, "Let the story speak for itself." Uh, yeah, you better hope so.
I thought that was an odd comment and wasn't sure what to make of it. I wonder if they could file a lawsuit against the hospital even though they no longer deliver babies. I'm not sure if it's under a different company name now though.
@@isaacmemtorie3347 Well it's been 3 years and I don't even remember the story but yes I think I was implying something about a potential lawsuit.
Wow.
We have one brother in our family that doesn’t look like me and my two other brothers. I wonder if he was switched. He’s 60. I’m 63
I never thought about this. I look just like my sister and we all look a little alike. Except for my youngest sister. She is a natural blond and tans, also athletic, none of the rest of us is anything like this. She doesn't look like any of us. I never thought about her being switched. I knew my mom never had an affair. She was never the type. So I just figured she was a throwback! ... I still think this!
That’s tough
So sad her mum died when she was 17 but really she didn't because she was living elsewhere
Infants look pretty much all the same. Before computer tracking in hospitals this probably happened all the time.
No wonder why so many people are confused about their genetics.
why now why😭😭may be it is better not to know than knowing too late...no time😢😦
I was born in 1982 Owatonna, Minnesota. I think I could have been given to the wrong lady.
Wow
Pretty cool
They had to be doing this on purpose, it has occurred so often
In every workplace there are people that don't care or are incompetent. In a hospital, there may be serious consequences from those employees.
Years ago, newborn babies where put in the nursery together in one room. This would more likely occur in those days. Luckily today, babies stay in the room with the mother.
@@rayma66 More and more hospitals are doing away with the maternity nurseries in favour of the baby staying with the mother, but they still exist.
@@MsGuernseyGirl Okay. They must only do it in certain places. All of my children stayed in the room with me.
WTF? No.
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The shame probably maybe the nurses did it intentional or not that's horrible into the 72 years old living a life and not knowing your real mom or your siblings and the other extended family awful you know I hope both of you had a good lives it's not like you're adopted switched at Birth is a terrible thing hopefully they'll have a few good years getting to know the mother she never knew her real mother and the other one that lost her the mother that raised her at 42 years old. She regained the mother now but it's not the same because she loved the one that raised her she has to get to know the real mother now. Sad just saying LOL
Did it intentionally? Why would they? To what end?
Why did the moms switch babies?
The nurses at the hospital switched the babies.
Interesting story. PTL for the affordable DNA testing available today.
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