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From K. H. O. U. T. V. Houston. In the spirit of texas. This is 11 news at five. The birth of a baby. The joy of life. Then a mix up at your bundle of joy goes home with the wrong family area hospitals. Now taking extraordinary

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precautions to prevent newborns from being switched at birth. Good evening everybody. I'm Marlene McClinton and I'm Sylvan Rodriguez and for steve smith. Thank you for joining us. Imagine discovering the baby you took home from the hospital is not yours. It's called baby switching. And though it

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is rare it can be heartbreaking for all parties involved. 11 news reporter Sandra jin tells us how the government is now trying to protect families from this heartache. The problem of baby switching has never surfaced at Houston's LBJ hospital. And a bill by congresswoman Sheila Jackson.

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Lee would ensure it stays that way with 6000 births a year, LBJ has one of the most secure nurseries in town. First time Mom Elvira Soriano had a C. Section and didn't see her son at birth so much pain. But I told him, you know, as

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soon as I get him out, you follow him. When a baby is born here, footprints are taken and identification bracelets are placed on the wrists, mothers get one to the director of the birth center says baby switching is a natural concern among new parents. We have

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locks on the doors entering into that nursery area. The mother does identify for us who she wants what male figure to see her baby. The man in charge of security says surveillance cameras and other measures are used in the nursery. In fact, it was this surveillance

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video that helped identify a mother who abandoned her baby at the hospital last summer. They tell the mothers not to give the baby to strangers, that they have to have the identification back on and that they should develop relationships. Friendships, talk to the nurse who is

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assisting that patient and having that baby LBJ administrators cannot divulge all their security measures but saying no system is foolproof. The only way to ensure the right baby goes home with the right set of parents is to keep an eye on both at all times Sandra

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and by the way, a new state law requires hospitals in texas to have security measures to prevent infant patient abductions. Now that bill in Congress came too late for Paula johnson. Her case captured national attention, johnson has been raising Callie for three years now. Callie and

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another child Rebecca were switched at birth three years ago, officials discovered the mix up this summer and I denied it all the way up until the blood typing came back. That Callie had a different a different type of blood. Then it it's reality started to set

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in. You know that somebody obviously had to switch these kids and you know, I wanted to know why and how and who the bill now in the U. S. House requires hospitals to have uniform security plans to prevent baby switching or kidnappings. as Sandra said, violators

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could lose their Medicare funding, but the law will not be retroactive now. That means it will not help mothers like Paula johnson take action or live with her real daughter but will help mothers in the future. And texas is one of three states that already has

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laws regarding baby switching.