A mother has revealed that her twin daughters were swapped at birth, when the hospital accidentally gave them the wrong names.
Taking to TikTok, Saffron Crisp from Ipswich explained that when was pregnant with non-identical twins, who are now four-months-old, hospital staff named them twin A and twin B.
Twin A was the smaller of the two and closest to the cervix, which meant staff told Saffron she would be the first child out of the womb. Saffron and her partner had settled on calling baby A Delilah and baby B Azayla.
However, when she had to abandon plans of a natural birth and have an emergency C-section, the midwife pulled twin B out first, leading Saffron to call her Delilah. It wasn't until later that the consultant revealed twin B was born first.
Despite being blindsided by the revelation at first, the mother-of-two decided not to switch the babies' names back to how she had originally wanted them - and now even sees the blunder as a 'funny story'.
Saffron Crisp (pictured) from Ipswich took to TikTok to reveal that her twin daughters were switched at birth
'I'm happy that their names switched to be honest, it's a funny story that they were actually each other's names', she explained in a clip on TikTok.
Saffron continued: 'My twins got switched at birth and this is the story time behind it. They are still my children.
'So, when you're pregnant with twins, they name your twins twin A and twin B, and in my belly [pointing to her children] this was twin A and this was twin B.'
'Twin A was the smaller twin, she was closest to the exit, and we were told twin A was going to be coming out first regardless.
'So, when they were in our belly, we decided to name them, so twin A was Delilah and twin B was Azayla.'
Saffron continued: 'I went for a natural birth but it didn't go to plan, so I had to have an emergency C-section.
'When they pulled the babies out, they just flashed me a quick little look at them over the screen, and then Delilah was swept off to NICU [neonatal intensive care unit].'
'So, I was given Azayla and through the whole pregnancy Azayla was the biggest baby, so I thought "oh my god, she's tiny, how small is Delilah going to be, Delilah's going to be half the size of her", I was panicking because I thought she was going to be in NICU for ages.'
'Well, when they wheeled Delilah in my room six hours later, she was humongous, I was like, "is that my baby? Are you sure that's my baby?" I was expecting Delilah to be a dinky little baby, because like I said, in my belly, Delilah was my smaller baby.'
Hospital staff had wrongly informed Saffron that twin A had been born first, but it was actually twin B
Pictured: Saffron and Lewey's non-identical twin daughters, who are now four-months-old
The mother-of-two took to TikTok to explain the ordeal, explaining that she now finds it funny
Later on in the day, the consultant, a twin specialist, came in and revealed 'they pulled out the wrong baby first'.
She said: 'So the wrong baby came out first, and because I just said the first baby out is Delilah and the second baby out is Azayla, they just pulled whichever one they wanted out and called her Delilah.'
However, Saffron and her partner Lewey decided not to swap them back because baby A is an 'Azayla through and through' and Twin B 'is a Delilah', she added: 'they just look like their name.'
Saffron concluded: 'And I think even if they had come out the right way round, I probably would have switched them.
'I'm happy that their names switched to be honest, it's a funny story that they were actually each other’s names'.
It comes after amother was left in a state of shock after realising that the baby she was caring for was not her newborn daughter.
Maisie Beth, 22, from Poole, was left stunned when she went to change her daughter's nappy only to find that the newborn was a boy.
Now, the mother-of-two laughs about the ordeal and believes she would have swapped the names around anyway
Pictured: Saffron and Azayla with their father Lewey in the hospital shortly after being born
The mother-of-two was told that twin A had come out of the womb first, but it was actually twin B
The mother stormed into the maternity office at Poole Hospital demanding to know where her child, Isabella, nicknamed Belle, had been taken.
She said: 'God knows what would've happened, I could've breastfed this baby or the mother could've woken up to an empty crib.'
Maisie gave birth to her daughter in September, and due to needing phototherapy - a treatment for jaundice using LED lights - and having a tube fitted, Belle had to be monitored every two hours and was placed in a nursery on her own.
Maisie explained that one evening she went to visit her baby and, on her way, back to her room, she found the midwife in the office with Belle.
She was confused because Belle was meant to be kept in her crib due to needing phototherapy but without argument she just accepted it and made her way back to her room with the child.
Before long, it was time for Maisie to return her newborn to the phototherapy crib, which is when she made her shocking discovery.
The midwife was in fact not looking after Belle in the office and had handed her the wrong baby.
While getting Belle undressed for the crib, Maisie changed her nappy and realised the baby was a boy, and she had someone else's newborn boy.
In a complete panic, Maisie ran to the office to find her daughter. The midwife explained that Maisie looked identical to the little boy's mother, and therefore, she had handed over the wrong baby.
Saffron (pictured with Azayla) believes the names given to her daughters suit them better, even if they were originally meant to be the other way round
Maisie said: 'I went to the toilet [and] on my way back the midwife came out of the office and told me to come in because they had Isabella in there. I just assumed they had taken her out with her phototherapy crib while I was in the toilet.
'They told me they had her there for a while because shed been crying a lot. I did think this was strange because she wasn't allowed out of her phototherapy crib, and I'd also just been cuddling a baby in the nursery.
Maisie continued: 'I thought: 'Oh gosh, I hope nobody noticed that I was cuddling a baby that wasn't mine.
'Nurses then told me that she [the other mother] looked exactly like me. At this point, it was so early and I was two days postpartum, so we just didn't question anything and I took the baby back to my bed.
'The mother was asleep on a completely different ward from me and I don't know if she ever knew that the baby was passed to me.
'My instant reaction was that somebody had stolen my baby. I was absolutely terrified after four years of infertility. I thought I'd lost my baby after giving birth to her.
Pictured: The mother-of-two with her daughter Delilah, who was originally meant to be called Azayla
Saffron said that even if her daughters had come out the right way round, she most likely would have still switched their names
'As far as I'm aware, Isabella was still in her phototherapy crib this whole time across the hall from me, but I have no idea what went on while I was in bed with the other baby.
'When I saw her again, the relief I felt is unexplainable. She was still asleep in her little car and it didn't seem like anything had happened to her.
'But I instantly felt an overwhelming feeling of guilt for the other mother. After the incident it was never really spoken about again.'
Lorraine Tonge, director of midwifery at University Hospitals Dorset, said: 'We are investigating an incident in our maternity unit in September 2023 in which a baby was handed to the wrong mother.
'We deeply regret any distress that was caused and have reached out to the mother to offer her support.
'We would urge her to get back in touch with us to assist us in our investigation. The safety of our parents and babies is the highest priority and we are committed to providing full support to the affected families.'
