A hospital worker has been sacked in Massachusetts for giving a newborn baby to the wrong mother for breast-feeding.
Officials at Winchester Hospital, near Boston, said the mistake was ''terrible" and ''unacceptable", reports the Boston Globe.
The sister-in-law of the woman said the child she was given nursed with far greater vigour and appeared to have longer hair than her son.
The woman alerted a hospital nurse, the sister-in-law said.
''The nurse took the baby from her arms, looked at the tags and said: "Oops, this isn't the right baby", " she added.
Hospital spokesman Mark Whitney said doctors did not anticipate any health problems for either the baby or the woman.
''It's a terrible thing for both of the families involved," Whitney said. ''I don't think we can apologise enough to the families involved.
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Officials at Winchester Hospital, near Boston, said the mistake was ''terrible" and ''unacceptable", reports the Boston Globe.
The sister-in-law of the woman said the child she was given nursed with far greater vigour and appeared to have longer hair than her son.
The woman alerted a hospital nurse, the sister-in-law said.
''The nurse took the baby from her arms, looked at the tags and said: "Oops, this isn't the right baby", " she added.
Hospital spokesman Mark Whitney said doctors did not anticipate any health problems for either the baby or the woman.
''It's a terrible thing for both of the families involved," Whitney said. ''I don't think we can apologise enough to the families involved.
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