Thanks for all of your responses. I appreciate your honesty. This is quite an old story, and I haven't heard anything from it. I doubt it ever saw the courtroom because hospitals and healthcare almost always settle. After this article, the hospital I worked at installed a new system that would play a lullaby each time a mother came close to her baby. If it was the wrong baby, the alarm would go off like a fire alarm. Same if the baby remotely came near an exit, the alarm would ring and a computer system would tell you the location and which baby instantly. (kinda scary, uh?) We also have bands that we check numbers between mom and baby. Even with all of these regulations, we have had babies switched. It happens very easily. Imagine a nursery with 12 babies in it with four of them crying. Four nurses pick up four girls. Then another nurse comes in and wants to put another baby in a corner and rearranges the room. It is very easy to put a baby in the wrong crib. We usually catch it before the crib leaves the nursery, but we got close once by going into the mother's room and then realizing the mistake when the bands were checked. I know this sounds scary. The best way to not have this happen to you is to have your baby with you at all times. (I think that's good advice anyway...) Another part of the article I don't understand is why it took them twenty minutes to find the right baby???? I would think that would be a few minutes, five at most.

Well, anyway, thanks for your input. I think to agree that this is NOT a case of PTSD. I breastfed both my children for combined five years...so I know the bonding that occurs, but I also think that I would be more distraught if my baby was breastfed by someone else, and not vice versa.