Word: birthed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says the note. Roseanne has called. So has Barbara Walters. So far, Johnson has said no to TV people: "I don't want to get on the circuit." It will just lead to more sleepless nights groggily flipping through channels that are all the same: SWITCHED AT BIRTH, the graphics screech. Her picture is everywhere...
...Rogerses say they remember Whitney's baby got an ID bracelet just moments after her birth. They say they even have a videotape showing the baby's banding. Someone could have swapped the bands later, but right now no one is sure how the switch occurred. And according to at least one source, the university and the state police have few leads so far. "I don't see any particular heat behind the investigation right now," said a law-enforcement source whom the investigators consulted for advice last week. Among the mysteries those investigators should try to puzzle...
...Johnson says that when she was discharged from the hospital, the baby she took home was weighed at 7 lbs., 12 oz. But just after birth her child had weighed 9 lbs., 6 oz. Babies often shed a few ounces in the hours after birth, but not 17% of their body weight. Hospital chief of staff Dr. Thomas Massaro admits the hospital can't explain why the large discrepancy went unnoticed. "We don't understand that," he says, though he is virtually positive there was no accidental switch in this case. "We have very good documentation that the band...
Parents of the '90s tend to read this 1940 story searching for dark lessons about birth parents, surrogacy and who knows what else. But small children still love it. That's because the Mayzie vs. Horton dustup affirms what they already know: real parents are people who are dedicated and unshakably there for you, day in and day out. Period. In their limited world view, the parent-child connection is not spun from DNA. Rather, it's woven with the mundane strands of everyday life, the countless gestures, large and small, that repeatedly reaffirm: I see you, I love...
...nanosecond before the sides square off in these divide-the-baby cases, yanking our sympathies one way or another, even we know who the parents are. Instinctively, we know that no child truly benefits from a shattering of his universe. (Remember Kimberly Mays? Her five-year switched-at-birth nightmare left her, for a time, despising both sets of parents.) We want to believe, as King Solomon did, that real parents won't split their child...