Do you think that the Twiggs would have ever found out that Alena was not their daughter if she had not got sick and had to of had all of those tests done on her? It would not have been fair to Bob Mays if the Twiggs would have got custody of Kimberly. He never got to know his real daughter. The Twiggs waited until Alena died before they decided to find who had their biological daughter. What does everyone else think?
shareI don't think they would have found out unless she had to have a blood test for some reason. It's amazing that they didn't find out sooner considering how sick she always was. As far as Bob Mays goes, it's questionable whether he didn't know about the switch. His baby was born 4 days before the Twigg baby, but he and his wife didn't notice that it was a different baby after the switch?? Pretty hard to believe.
shareI agree. Ecspecially if the babies were born four days apart. Wouldn't Kim (actually Alena) have been out of the hospital and home before Alena (actually Kim) was born? How long is a baby in the hospital for before they are sent home? And if Alena was sick like they said wouldn't she have been in the ICU?
shareThese days, the mother probably would have been sent home already. But that was 1978, and I think for a c-section, the mother stayed in for a week or something. Plus, Barbara Mays's family practically owned the hospital.
shareWhy would somebody switch their baby? That couldn't of been Bob Mays or his wife's fault. They'd have to be cruel to give up their baby for another - for a better one. It's like, if you just had a baby, would you give it up for a baby that was cuter than yours? Heck no, it's YOUR baby. I think it was someone who knew the Mays, maybe a nurse or working in that unit, who switched them. Pretty cruel... But not the Mays' fault.
shareWhy would someone switch their own child, their own flesh and blood? That's ridiculous. And babies are babies; newborns all look alike, especially to new parents so why should the Mays have noticed? If anything, surely the seven-time over parents, the Twiggs, should have realised something wasn't right. But, to be honest, I don't think the switch was deliberate or either family's fault. It was probably an accident caused perhaps when feeding time was busy and the ward was short-staffed. It's just a lesson in why babies should remained at their mother's bedsides instead of in nurseries or away from their cots.
shareIf I remember correctly the Tiggs already had another daughter that had died of a heart defect of some sort, so it would not have crossed their minds that this sick girl was not biologically theres
shareI won't deliver a child at a hospital that keeps the baby in a nursery. My mom refused it as well with my three siblings. I am just three years younger than Kimberly and Arlena, and it was some sort of standard (I think) to keep the babies in nurseries.
Yes, Kimberly (the biological Arlena) had an older deceased sister named Vivia who died as an infant.
I agree with everyone else probably not at least until there was a reason to check blood type. I’m a Lifetime movie addict (late 90s and before) and saw one movie where a woman found out she was adopted when she got I think cancer. She then learned her parents and I think a brother couldn’t donate to help her because she was adopted. Of course she was ticked off to learn that way. But anyway most of us never really get our blood type checked until there is a need.
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