I think I would stick with the hospital since that's the only thing I know. Yeah, I've heard of giving birth at home. Even giving birth in water, but I still feel safer in a hospital. And I'm not really worried about having my baby mixed with another. I'll just look for a distinguishing mark like my mom did for me. I have a what looks like to be a small hole on my left ear. Doctors say it's just a large pour.

And if it turned out that my baby real did get switched, I don't know if I'd be able to return the one I've been taking care of. Sure, the baby may not be mine by blood, but I raised and loved it for 2 years as if it were my own. What? Am I suddenly suppose to drop all emotional attachment I had for this baby? And would I really want to return the child to a family who could? I wouldn't feel right doing so.

I doubt I'll ever have a kid, but I'd like to be in the hospital if I did. I've been scared too much, I guess. My mom had a horrible time having me, which was made worse because the doctors and nurses weren't the best, but if she wasn't in the hospital, both of us would have died. We almost did even with the doctors around. Not to mention that, from what I've heard, giving birth is horrible. You go through hours of pain, even with medications. If I ever was to have a child, I definitely want something to help ease the pain.

As for the baby...I don't know, that would be hard. After two years, I probably love the baby that isn't really mine with all my heart. But then again, that baby's parents obviously really want it because they had to track me down. I'd feel like an ass stealing their baby from them, you know? And then I'd feel like I was abandoning my own baby if I left it with other parents. However, I would also probably feel like I was abandoning the baby that wasn't mine if I just gave if away after those years of caring for it.

To be honest, I don't have a clue what I'd do in that situation.

Most definitely. I would want to be in the hospital. Never once would I doubt that my baby was switched unless it don't look a thing like my future husband, the man who helped me create it, or even like myself; possibly even my family members. If that was the case, I would be a bit worried, but it's a small chance that it'd be switched in a hospital. I had always thought that I was switched, but now I know that I am exactly like my father and got similarities of my mother. :)

It really depends on how long I'd be taking care of it. If the doctors came in, gave it to me, and told me that the baby was mine then a couple years down the road told me that they have made a mistake with the babies and that baby wasn't really mine but this other one was...I'm not sure if I would give that baby up despite if he/she wasn't mine or not. :/

Would you give birth in a hospital?
Would you give back a baby that you took care of to its real parents for your real baby?

- yes i will...i certainly can't imagine if i give birth else where without the help of the nurse... >.<;
- heck no...i mean, i would've already loved that baby like a real parents..

While I really, really hate hospitals I think I would give birth in a hospital. Unless I found a very competent midwife whom I could trust, I would rather be somewhere where they can do something if a problem arises. Honestly, I've never even considered not giving birth in a hospital. It just kinda... seemed the way to do it to me, I guess.

That being said, I don't have any intention of ever having children. So it really doesn't matter, I guess :)

If I did have a baby and it was switched I'd like to think I would give up that baby and take my own back. However, how can you really know how you would act until the time comes?

Subject of birthing at a hospital; Very iffy subject for me. On one hand, I have no problems with hospitals and medicine and what not. As long as they know what they are doing. {Which in some cases, they don't.}Usually I can tell if a doctor is going to be helpful in the matter or just make the case worse. Luckily I've only encountered one such doctor where she was incredibly stupid and made me get even sicker, in the end I had to stay in the hospital another week. My mum almost died when she had me, because the doctors drugged her THAT much. Seriously, it was a WHOLE lot. She didn't wake up for hours and they honestly didn't think she would. When she did {Thank the lord} she was VERY 'out of it' per say. Her head,she says, felt like it had been hit by a train. After they stapled her up {UGH} she was even worse because they stapled part of it wrongly. So after that whole incident she was pretty bad. After like a month there her and I were released. (:
I had some problems breathing at first, but I made it through thanks to the doctors. 'Thanks to the doctors'.
Although I don't trust everything about those places, I would rather be there if something were to go wrong.
It would just make me more comfortable and at ease. Though I don't know how much ease I have whilst a tiny life form is popping out of me. But at least some.

On the matter of switching at birth; I definitely think I'd switch back, even though I'd have probably grown attached to the other baby. I'd want my child, that I gave birth to and that I helped bring into this world. Though, I'd still want to see the other baby since I helped raise it.

BTW; I R A GIRL ;P

Um wow. Tough question, the last one.

Yes, I want to have my baby in a hospital, if something would go wrong I'd be in the right place.

As to your second and last question if I'd give the baby back. Well, I don't know. It would be right to give back a baby that wasn't yours but you've named it, fed it, loved it, cared for it, etc. It would break my heart but I guess I would.

I'd like to have a home birth, because I heard it's better and such, but I don't suppose I'll have much of a choice. My mom wuold rather me to give birth in a hospital.

If my baby was switched with someone else, I wouldn't want to trade the baby for my real one. I mean...after so many months of love and care, I really don't want to give it up.
And the poor little kid would be confused, and I dunno.
I just wouldn't want to swtich. .___.;

Ha, well I don't even want to have children. If I was the guy then heck yeah but like I would ever want to be pregnant. I will probably adopt of something. I fear childbirth so much. How can people say they want to have chrildren at home with no meds. That's crazy! Do you know how painful that is? OMG.

Ooh, I'm jealous of how some people were born.. I was born in an ugly hospital, I'm sure ><

I had a dream I gave birth to a baby in a life raft in a Florida lagoon/swamp. xD

That would be an awesome way to give a baby life :3


I don't want to give birth to ANYTHING in a hospital. I'd rather my dad's backseat!
Really!
All for natural baby-birthing, I am. xD

I'd rather have my baby in a hospital just because I want drugs. Lots and lots of drugs. Heh.
My sister was born at home... I dun see what's so great about it.

Its a nice thought to want to have a child outside of the hospital, water birthed or just at home. However if there were complications, or even for my first child I'd be so paranoid of something going wrong that I would probably have it at a hospital. I live in a very small town and the chances of having the baby switched are very few and far between. It also helps that most of the nurses are friends of my family or parents to my friends.

If there were no complications though and the baby was going to be birthed without any problems, then I would probably go with what my significant other wants. If they wanted an at home birth I would be ok with it if that's what they wanted and as long as the baby would be ok.

That is a pretty scary thought... to have your babies switched!
It must be an overwhelming feeling to one day find out it isn't really your kid.
Or what if you came across the truth on accident?
Like the kid got sick or something, needed blood, or something like that, and the parent gave it to them, and the DNA didn't match up and i'd be like "did you adopt?"
D:

Anyways...
If I ever do have kids, I think I would actually want to have it at home, as long as I had a real doctor, all the proper equipment and drugs especially xD
Home birth would be awfully expensive, wouldn't it?

Good question. Maybe

I am definitely going to give birth at home. I am so afraid of hospitals and needles and everything that I think that it would just make me be in a bad state of mind. My aunt catches babies for a living, so she would probably help me have my baby at home.

o.o
I thought you had to give birth in a hospital...
I didn't know you could have it at home...but wouldn't that hurt a hell of a lot more?

Switching babies isn't that common so I wouldn't worry about it, but if it does happen to me, I'd want my real child back since it has my blood

If I were ever going to be a mother, I would probably do artificial insemination or something similar. You know, test tube baby and all. I does not want pregnancy thank you. Besides, I'm going to be a rocket scientist anyway, plus, I bet I can come up with a much nicer incubator than the uterus.
So, uh... I don't think a hospital would have much to do with it.
And I don't like hospitals either. I really don't like the fact that when I go to a hospital is pretty likely the time I have the least choice or control about what happens, and it's one of the most important times for me to have some say. I guess childbirth in a hospital is better than like... home birthing. *shudder* Honestly? One reason I'm just avoiding that whole experience.

As for the mix-up-this-is-your-baby-2-years-later-let's-switch-back thing, I say blood counts for about as much as dirt on my shoe until you need a transfusion. So I would value the time I spent with the child far more than the fact that I'm genetically related to it. I care more about who the child will be, and that's very much yet-to-be-determined.