A mother has revealed that her twin daughters were swapped at birth when the hospital accidentally gave them the wrong names.
Taking to TikTokSaffron Crisp, from Ipswich, explained that when she was pregnant with non-identical twins, now four months old, hospital staff called them twins A and twins B.
Twin A was the smaller of the two and closest to the cervix, so staff told Saffron she would be the first girl out of the womb. Saffron and her partner had decided to name baby A Delilah and baby B Azayla.
However, when she had to abandon plans for a natural birth and have an emergency caesarean section, the midwife delivered twin B first, leading Saffron to name her Delilah. It wasn’t until much later that the doctor revealed to her that twin B was born first.
Although she was initially taken by surprise by the revelation, the mother of two decided not to change the babies’ names back to how she originally wanted them, and now even views the mistake as a “funny story.”
Saffron Crisp (pictured), from Ipswich, took to TikTok to reveal her twin daughters were swapped at birth.
“I’m glad their names changed, to be honest, it’s a funny story that they were actually each other’s names,” she explained in a clip on TikTok.
Saffron continued: ‘My twins were swapped at birth and this is the story behind that. They are still my children.
‘So when you’re pregnant with twins, your twins are called twin A and twin B, and in my womb (pointing to her sons) this one was twin A and this one was twin B.’
‘Twin A was the youngest, closest to the exit, and we were told that twin A was going to come out first anyway.
‘So when they were in our womb, we decided to name them, so twin A was Delilah and twin B was Azayla.’
Saffron continued: ‘I had a natural birth but it didn’t go as planned so I had to have an emergency caesarean.
“When they brought the babies out, they just gave me a quick glance through the screen and then took Delilah to the NICU.”
‘So, I was given Azayla and throughout the pregnancy Azayla was the biggest baby so I was thinking ‘Oh my god she’s tiny, how tiny is Delilah going to be, Delilah is going to be half the size of her’, I panicked because I thought I was going to be in NICQ for years.’
‘Well, when Delilah came into my room six hours later with her wheelchair, she was huge, and I was like, “Is that my baby? Are you sure that’s my baby?” I was hoping that Delilah would be a tiny baby, because, like I said, in my belly, Delilah was my tiniest baby.
The hospital staff had wrongly informed Saffron that twin A had been born first, but in fact it was twin B.
Pictured: Saffron and Lewey’s non-identical twin daughters, now four months old.
The mother of two took to TikTok to explain the ordeal and explained that she now finds it funny.
Later that day, the consulting doctor, a twin specialist, came in and revealed that “they took out the wrong baby first.”
She said, ‘So, the wrong baby came out first, and because I said the first baby that came out was Delilah and the second baby that came out was Azayla, they just took out the one they wanted and called her Delilah.’
However, Saffron and her partner Lewey decided not to swap them again because baby A is an “Azayla through and through” and twin B “is a Delilah,” she added: “They just look like their name.”
Saffron concluded: “And I think even if they had turned out well, I probably would have changed them.
“I’m glad their names changed, to be honest, it’s a funny story that they were actually each other’s names.”
This comes after a mother was left in shock after realising the baby she was caring for was not her newborn daughter.
Maisie Beth, 22, from Poole, was left stunned when she went to change her daughter’s nappy and discovered the newborn was a boy.
Now, the mother of two laughs about the ordeal and believes she would have changed the names anyway.
Pictured: Saffron and Azayla with their father Lewey in hospital shortly after birth.
The mother of two was told that twin A had come out of the womb first, but it was actually twin B.
The mother stormed into the maternity ward at Poole Hospital demanding to know where her daughter Isabella, nicknamed Belle, had been taken.
She said: “God knows what would have happened, I could have breastfed this baby or the mother could have woken up to an empty cot.”
Maisie gave birth to her daughter in September and because she needed phototherapy (a treatment for jaundice using LED lights) and a tube fitted, Belle had to be monitored every two hours and was placed alone in a nursery.
Maisie explained that one night she went to visit her baby and on her way to her room she found the midwife in the office with Belle.
She was confused why Belle had to stay in her crib because she needed phototherapy, but without argument she simply accepted it and returned to her room with the baby.
Before long, it was time for Maisie to return her newborn baby to the phototherapy crib, and that’s when she made her surprising discovery.
In fact, the midwife was not caring for Belle in the office and had delivered the wrong baby to her.
While undressing Bella for the crib, Maisie changed her diaper and realized that the baby was a boy and that she had someone else’s newborn baby.
In a complete panic, Maisie ran to the office to get her daughter. The midwife explained that Maisie looked very much like the child’s mother and therefore she had delivered the wrong baby.
Saffron (pictured with Azayla) believes the names she gave her daughters suit them better, even if they were originally intended to be the other way around.
Maisie said: ‘I went to the toilet and as I was coming back the midwife came out of the office and told me to come in as they had Isabella in there. I assumed they had taken her out with her phototherapy cot while I was in the toilet.
“They told me that they had kept her there for a while because she had been crying a lot. I thought it was strange because they wouldn’t let her out of her phototherapy cot and I had been holding a baby in the nursery.
Maisie continued: ‘I thought, ‘Oh God, I hope no one noticed I was holding a baby that wasn’t mine.
“The nurses told me that she (the other mother) looked a lot like me. At that time, it was very early and I had given birth two days before, so we didn’t ask any questions and I took the baby to my bed.
‘The mother slept in a completely different room to me and I don’t know if she ever knew that the baby had been transferred to me.
‘My immediate reaction was to think that someone had stolen my baby from me. I was absolutely terrified after four years of infertility. I thought I had lost my baby after giving birth.
Pictured: The mother of two with her daughter Delilah, who was originally going to be named Azayla.
Saffron said that even if her daughters had been born the right way, she would most likely have changed their names.
‘As far as I know, Isabella was still in her phototherapy crib across the hall from me this whole time, but I have no idea what happened while she was in bed with the other baby.
“When I saw her again, the relief I felt was inexplicable. She was still sleeping in her little car and it didn’t seem like anything had happened to her.
“But I immediately felt an overwhelming sense of guilt for the other mother. After the incident, the subject was never discussed again.”
Lorraine Tonge, director of midwifery at University Hospitals Dorset, said: ‘We are investigating an incident at our maternity unit in September 2023 where a baby was handed over to the wrong mother.
We deeply regret any distress this may have caused and have contacted the mother to offer support.
“We urge you to contact us to assist us in our investigation. The safety of our parents and babies is our top priority and we are committed to providing all support to the affected families.”
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