Doctor stole twin, raised as his own

[Amraann]

I believe the doctors, this young mum to be had a cesarian to deliver twins, i wonder if there were nurses present at the surgery and if so how did the doctor hide this baby from the them?

Plenty of women have twins naturally.
Actually if she had the cesarian wouldn't they have put up a curtain to block the view of the surgery?

 

[Elizabethsmum]

Absolutely woman give birth to twins naturally all the time but maybe thats why she was having a cesarian because she was having twins. And most deffinately the surgery would be blocked from the mothers view but what about nurses, theatre staff? What did they see?

Kelly

 

[Mr. E]

It makes sense. It's easy to see the other side of the fence though - we're basically saying it's okay to kidnap a child from someone if you're good to the kid. I am always glad it is not me who has to make the decisions in difficult issues like these!

Definitely I don't think it's okay to kidnap a kid. I'm just saying that we don't have all the facts to know exactly what happened, so why yank the kid from her home? It kind of reminds me of the book The Face on the Milk Carton. In it, a girl recognizes herself as a little girl in a picture on the side of a milk carton, a little girl who has been missing for many years. Turns out her "parents" had a grown daughter who had abducted the little girl, then the daughter died/disappeared (I can't remember). Anyway, the missing girl, now a teenager, has to reconnect with the family that has been searching for her for many years, while at the same time she loves her "new" parents and feels loyalty toward them.

It's a good book. How strange to see it in real life! Caroline B. Cooney is the author of the book.

 

[pedinurse]

Plenty of women have twins naturally.
Actually if she had the cesarian wouldn't they have put up a curtain to block the view of the surgery?

if it was an emergency, maybe they had to separate her from the father and put her to sleep - making both of them unaware she was having twins. then only the staff would have known she was having the twins. if she was having prenatal care, he could have just told the delivery room people "she said she didn't want both" and took the pick... you know what i mean? maybe all the staff just trusted him, and only took her the baby he didn't designate as their own. we don't know if it was a big or small hospital, or what the doctors influence was... i mean, that might make a big influence down there. you know?

 

[pedinurse]

I believe the doctors, this young mum to be had a cesarian to deliver twins, i wonder if there were nurses present at the surgery and if so how did the doctor hide this baby from the them?

well, lets say it was an emergency and he told her post op "you had two girls" she could have started crying and said "no!" while coming out from under anesthesia. instead of bringing it up again at all, they could have just wisked the baby away and he took it. i really wonder what the healthcare system is like down there. i remember reading about a mother who had twins by c-section, and they told her that she had conjoined twins... somehow, she had poor prenatal care and it wasn't seen before or something, but anyway... they told her when she was under anesthesia. she thought she'd had cats (siamese twins). so i wouldn't be surprised if this woman didn't even remember if they told her, depending on what they'd given her and when they told her. that could be a likely senario. they need to bring another witness forward to find out what really happened.

 

[arielilane]

"Andrea and Marielisa shared the same dark eyes, the same hair, the same ... everything.
Marielisa was accompanied by Roberto Romo and Isabel Garcia, the doctor couple who had delivered the twin babies — and then raised one."

Above quote from story link MagicRose provided: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19749574/

Sounds like the doctor couple that delivered the twins also kidnapped one of them.
Am glad the twins' parents have filed suit. Not only for robbing them of a daughter, but robbing their other daughter of having a sister to grow up with. These doctors were idiots to think they can just take a baby. I doubt the child was turned over to them as they have stated; they would have made sure legal documentation would have been done to prevent something like this from happening and taking a chance of losing their license.

 

[txsvicki]

If the doctor did this, then I'd like to know who made him God to decide the future of all concerned. If the mother's life was so horrible then why did he leave her one baby and take one. If true, there was a child abduction crime committed. The doctor/doctors shouldn't get away with it whether the girl is happy with them or not. The birth mother may have been young and poor but the doctor would have been even worse being a criminal, corrupt, immoral, liar, and unethical. I'd much rather grow up with a poor sister and mother than a lying richer professional . There's no telling what else he's done and other babies may have been abducted or mom's lives snuffed out in order to take babies among other crimes.

 

[Elizabethsmum]

It just seems a little far fetched, this lady had no idea she was carrying twins? Did she go to term as twins often dont, she must have had poor or no prenatal and postnatal care. i dont know much about their country of birth but i am presuming there are hospitals with medical procedures and hospital records or is it more basic than that? So basic that these doctors wouldnt have any paperwork for the adoption?

I am looking at it logically, if they have proper adoption procedures where these doctors would need to have paper work then surely the hospitals would have paperwork for the births.

Kelly

 

[missacorah]

So how will the doctor be dealt with now?

 

[lynie]

It's Ecuador, for crying out loud! I can practically guarantee that 15 years ago the hospitals there barely had ultrasound machines etc to routinely check during prenatal care. Heck, I live in an American city and when I was pregnant 17 years ago, I never got an ultrasound! My Dr felt that if things weren't progressing normally he would do it, otherwise it was unneeded.

Prenatal care in Ecuador isn't what it is in more developed countries either....I am with the mom on this one and feel the Drs had the chance and the means to payoff others that may have been at the delivery. :liar:

But I also think that it would be best to leave her with the Dr.s as it would be so cruel to remove her now....

Lynie

 

[Zanko]

It should be left to a court of law to determine if there was a crime committed and what crime that was, now or in a few years when the twins are adults. I don't know about the laws in Ecuador, but I would imagine in the U.S. that there would be at least prosecution for an illegal adoption. Even if the birth mother said, "Yes, I told him to take her" couldn't she could be prosecuted for being party to this illegal adoption? If that is the case, it would be in her best interest to deny knowledge, but it doesn't make a lot of sense that she would relinquish the child without any formal process and never look back. But then again, I don't claim to understand the culture in Ecuador. Would giving a child up for adoption have been a taboo? Especially splitting up twins. Anyone from Ecuador know if adoption is viewed as a taboo?

 

[txsvicki]

I wish there was more information, such as why the twins' biological father wasn't consulted about the adoption. The article didn't mention him even knowing about the adoption and it sounded as if the mother was even aware that she was carrying twins but was told after the birth. I don't see how the mother would want one baby but not the other or why she wouldn't have support and help from other female relatives and her husband. But, I also wonder if other women who'd had babies noticed how big she was, if she couldn't feel both babies moving, or if anyone ever suspected or felt something or someone was missing all these years.

 

[Amraann]

It just seems a little far fetched, this lady had no idea she was carrying twins? Did she go to term as twins often dont, she must have had poor or no prenatal and postnatal care. i dont know much about their country of birth but i am presuming there are hospitals with medical procedures and hospital records or is it more basic than that? So basic that these doctors wouldnt have any paperwork for the adoption?

I am looking at it logically, if they have proper adoption procedures where these doctors would need to have paper work then surely the hospitals would have paperwork for the births.

Kelly

How would a first time pregnant women know the difference between being pregnant with 1 or 2?

 

[Yakwoman]

Wow, that reminds me of the book The Memory Keeper's Daughter.

Oh, that was a terrific book! I just finished it a couple of weeks ago.