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* On ''[[Road to Avonlea]]'' (broadcast in the U.S. as simply "Avonlea"), Felicity and her friend Sally were born on the same day with the same flighty doctor present. When they harass her about not having a mother, Sarah forges a letter from the doctor confessing to switching the babies by accident. Aunt Hetty catches on, but first suggests that they switch the girls back, since the mothers had earlier made a big point of her not being able to understand motherhood, having never given birth.
* ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' contains a rare modern example of this trope played straight. {{spoiler|Veronica discovers that her friend Mac was switched at birth with Madison Sinclair.}}
* ''[[One Life to Live]]'' is the baby switch headquarters of American soaps. In the early 80s, Karen Wolek switched her sister's dead baby for a living one, a switch that went on for ''years''. Later, Gabrielle switched Alicia's dead baby with Brenda's living son. In 2004, a major [[Crossover]] with ''[[All My Children]]'' saw Kelly from ''OLTL'' raising the child of Babe from ''AMC'', who in turn had best friend Bianca's baby. The most recent{{when}} involves Bess, an alternate personality of Jessica, who switched Jessica's dead baby for Starr's.
* Happened in an episode of ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'', where the ghost of the week discovers she'd been switched at birth shortly after her death, and plans to tell the girl she was switched with, despite both their parents not wanting her to know.
* This trope is what [[Not Blood Siblings|prevents]] straight [[Brother-Sister Incest]] in the Korean drama ''[[Autumn In My Heart]]'': the main couple were raised as biological siblings, and in their teenage years, when their feelings become muddy, it's revealed that she was inadvertently exchanged with another baby girl because her older brother, a toddler back then, entered in the nursery and exchanged the name tags.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Modern, western hospitals go through ''extraordinary'' measures to prevent this from happening, after some well-publicized (and very expensive) cases that came to light with the advent of DNA testing.
** In Russia, it recently{{when}} happened to two infants girls. The families still see each others frequently, and the girls still say "Mama"! when they see the other's family mother. Who miss them actually.
** In ''[[Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction?]]'', this story was introduce as true: A woman discovered thanks to her premarital exam that her blood group wasn't like her parents's. She came to the hospital with her fiancé who was born the same day and at the same place in a confusing night (a new's year eve, during a tempest). The mess led the nurses to write the wrong sex on minute books. So she was switched at birth [[It's a Small World After All|with her own future husband, no less.]]
*** Believable if you consider the fact that people tend to marry those who remind them of their parents, and who better to remind you of Daddy than his own son, and of Mommy than her own daughter?
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