The traumatised mother lost the child she raised as her own when DNA proved the girl is not hers, and still hasn’t found her blood daughter.
She lost her first daughter because nurses at a government hospital mixed up babies just after they were born.
She didn’t know it at the time and raised the baby she was given as her own.
She lost that daughter two years ago when DNA tests proved the teenager was someone else’s child.
The traumatised mother is still looking for her daughters … her blood child, and the one she raised as hers.
She waits regularly under a tree for a car to take her to government-provided counselling.
She said she saw a red flag in the beginning after giving birth at the Tambo Memorial Hospital on the East Rand. The nurse gave her a baby girl with two name tags, two different surnames. She reported her confusion to the nurse who conducted her own
