Baby 81

Have you heard about Baby 81? He was the 81st patient received at a hospital after the Tsunami hit back in December. Apparently, nine women have said this boy is their baby.

It’s actually a gut-wrenching story.

I don’t believe all of these women are maliciously lying — perhaps some but not all. If each women is truly a mother who has lost a child in this incredible disaster, the trauma and the pain may very well lead them to truly believe in the delusion that this is there child, when it fact it isn’t. It has to be a coping mechanism. Who could fault them?

Apparently, a court has ordered that anyone claiming to be the boy’s mother must now submit to a DNA test. I don’t think there is any other solution, sadly. How painful for the real birth mother who knows in her heart this is her son.