The women who had their newborn babies accidentally switched by a hospital have decided to sue, a lawyer said.
On March 28, Mary Jo Bathon was released from Heartland Regional Medical Center after she was given Kassie Hopkins’ baby. Despite her weird feeling that something was wrong, she left home after being assured by the medical workers that she had the right baby. In fact, she had Hopkins’ baby.

“Kassie, she's having trouble communicating how she feels. All she can do pretty much is cry. She's now paranoid. She's very concerned about something happening to her baby,” Attorney John Womick said Friday, as quoted by the Associated Press.

Bathon was called the same day and asked to return to the hospital to retrieve her real son.
The lawsuits, naming Heartland Regional Medical Center and its parent company, Community Health Systems Inc., of Franklin, Tenn. as defendants, seek monetary damages of more than $50,000 for each woman and a jury trial, Womick said. They also want policies changed to prevent this from happening to anyone else.

The switch seems to have happened while the two babies were taken to be circumcised. Both wore bracelets for identification, but “apparently both came off and they put the wrong ones back on,” Womick said. 

Staci Bynum, the hospital’s representative, apologized Friday for the switching, saying: “We genuinely regret the circumstances surrounding the discharge of these infants. Fortunately, the situation was quickly identified and corrected within hours, with both healthy babies being joined with their families.”
A DNA test has proved the babies were given to the wrong parents, Bynum further said.