A distraught mum has been left in a state of permanent confusion after hospital staff mixed up her twins, leaving her unsure which baby is which.
Saffron Crisp had carefully chosen the names of her twin girls well before they were born but her best laid plans were turned upside down when the midwives pulled out the “wrong” baby first.
It left her unsure which baby was which.
“My consultant came in, he said they pulled the wrong baby out first,” the 24-year-old said.
“So the wrong baby came out first and because the first baby out is Delilah, the second baby out is Azayla.”
The English woman told how she named her twins while they were still in the womb.
Labelled baby A and baby B, she called A Delilah and B Azayla presuming they would be born in that order.
The confusion started when Saffron, who had been planning for a natural birth, was rushed in for an emergency C-section. She was told that Baby A would be born first, but that wasn’t what happened.
After the birth, Saffron found herself in a mind-boggling situation when she noticed something wasn’t right. Azayla, who had been the larger twin throughout her pregnancy, was suddenly the smaller of the two – and she was being told this was Delilah.
She said: “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.
“When they pulled the babies out they just flashed me a quick little look at them over the over the screen and then Delilah was swept off to NICU.
“Through the whole pregnancy Azayla was my bigger baby so I was given her and I thought ‘oh my god she’s tiny like how small is Delilah gonna be?’”
Saffron began panicking as Delilah was supposed to be half the size of Azayla and she assumed the little girl would be in the NICU for a long time.
“But when they wheeled Delilah in my room six hours later she was humungous,” she said.
“They just pulled whatever one they wanted out and called her Delilah but me and my partner looked at them and we said we’re not going to swap them back because she is an Azayla through and through and she is a Delilah.
Despite the mix-up, Saffron and her partner decided not to switch the names back, even though they couldn’t be sure which twin was which anymore.
“You look at them and they just look like their names and I think even if they come out the right way around I probably would have switched them.”
