The Baby They Swapped

The day I was discharged from the hospital after giving birth, my mother-in-law, Patricia Whitmore, kept pointing at the baby in my arms and humiliating me the whole way home.

"Genevieve, just look at that pathetic thing in your arms. I doubt he'll live very long."

I shot back angrily, "Patricia, how could you say that? The doctor said the baby is perfectly healthy!"

Patricia curled her lip into a sneer. "You're so ignorant. Here you are, yelling at me when I'm only telling you the truth out of the kindness of my heart."