Moms Discover Their Babies Were Switched at Birth, Make Stunning Decision Together

Family isn’t always about blood, but it is about loving the people in your life. And sometimes, even when people make major big mistakes, love prevails.

Marinella Alagna and Gisella Fodera from Mazara del Vallo in Siciliy both gave birth to 👶Baby girls shortly before midnight on Dec. 31, 1998.

Their babies were born only 15 minutes apart. Somehow in the shuffle, the nurses got the babies switched around and gave the wrong child to the wrong mother.

According to Good News Network, though the mothers noticed the babies they’d been handed weren’t wearing the outfits they’d brought, the nurses said it was fine.

And for three years, it seemed to be. Until Marinella spotted a 3-year-old girl named Caterina at her youngest daughter’s school that bore a striking resemblance to her other two biological daughters.

“I recognized Caterina’s mother, Gisella Fodera, from the maternity ward and got suspicious — 15 days later we did DNA tests and my mind went blank. It was too surreal, too impossible,” Marinella told the Times UK, according to Today UK News.

Around two weeks later, DNA testing proved Alagna’s hunch, and the two families were left in a quandry. They had the “wrong” daughters, but they’d loved and raised the babies as their own.