{"id":3696,"date":"2026-07-18T20:39:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3696"},"modified":"2026-07-18T20:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:39:31","slug":"my-mind-was-just-completely-blown-2-families-sue-hospital-after-dna-proves-their-kids-were-switched-at-birth-38-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=3696","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My mind was just completely blown\u2019: 2 families sue hospital after DNA proves their kids were switched at birth 38 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kyle Bylin discovered his birth family after taking an at-home test he chose randomly during a Christmas gift-exchange. That led to his biological aunt on a genealogy platform. Her nephew, Jeremy Morrison, then had his DNA tested. The results were irrefutable.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s when my mind was just completely blown,\u201d Bylin said. \u201cWe could have never imagined that it was an actual birth switch that occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Morrison said he was convinced as soon as he saw a photo of Bylin\u2019s brother and realized they looked very much alike.<\/p>\n

Bylin and Morrison were the only babies born on Jan. 26, 1988, at Unity Medical Center in Grafton, North Dakota, according to their lawsuit filed in state court last week. Somehow, they went home with the wrong parents.<\/p>\n

A hospital statement says there\u2019s no evidence staff was responsible for the switch.<\/p>\n

But Bylin, born Jeremy Morrison, says he still has the hospital bracelet that misidentified him as Kyle Bylin.<\/p>\n

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The hospital records no longer exist<\/h4>\n

Two years have passed since the DNA tests shattered what they thought they knew about their families \u2014 including disorienting moments, emotional family meetings and thoughts about the what-ifs.<\/p>\n

\u201cKyle is still my son \u2014 that is never going to change,\u201d Evelyn Newton, who raised him as her own, told The Associated Press in a phone interview Friday. \u201cBut I feel robbed of the life I should have had with my biological son. You can\u2019t go back and replace 35 years. First steps, driving a car, getting married \u2014 how do you make up for that?\u201d<\/p>\n

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The hospital doesn\u2019t dispute that the babies were switched at some point. It says it\u2019s working to better understand what happened, but has uncovered no evidence that its administration or staff were responsible for the lives-altering error.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe recognize the profound impact this discovery has had on them and their families,\u201d Unity Medical\u2019s statement says. \u201cUnfortunately, because of the passage of nearly four decades, the medical and staffing records that might have provided additional clarity no longer exist, and no members of the delivery team from that time are still employed by the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The knowledge hasn\u2019t changed the way Morrison feels about the family he\u2019s always known. He still thinks of the parents he grew up with \u2014 Elizabeth O\u2019Toole and Terry Morrison \u2014 as his parents. And aside from some challenging times \u2014 like wishing he had a sibling to lean on when he was 7 and they divorced \u2014 he says his childhood was fine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was loved. I played sports. I did well in school,\u201d Morrison said. \u201cA DNA test is not going to take away 38 years of memories.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Morrison now lives in Colorado City, Colorado, and works as a welding inspector for a wind energy company. Had he not been switched at birth, he figures he\u2019d still be with his biological brother and father, working on the North Dakota grain farm where Bylin grew up.<\/p>\n

Newton said she never had any thought that Kyle might not be their biological son as she and her then-husband, Keith Bylin, were raising him. True, the immediate family had light hair and Kyle\u2019s was dark. But her husband had relatives with dark hair, and Newton herself was adopted, so she didn\u2019t know what her own blood relatives looked like.<\/p>\n

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For Bylin, questions about nature versus nurture have become more personal. As he pursued an academic career far from North Dakota, he figured the political debates over Thanksgiving dinner were just a staple of American family life.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re just kind of shaking your fist, like, how can this be my family? How am I so different from them?\u201d Bylin said. \u201cIt turns out that we\u2019re just totally different people, period.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bylin and Morrison have now met their biological parents \u2014 the encounters were welcoming but awkward, they said. They have yet to meet each other, but have spoken on the phone.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve tried to unite as a group and just recognize that no matter what, there\u2019s different ways that this can be socially messy,\u201d Bylin said. \u201cEveryone\u2019s getting to know people that they didn\u2019t know before.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Others have discovered they were switched at birth<\/h4>\n

Such cases are rare, but at-home DNA tests are making them easier to uncover:<\/p>\n