Doctors and Nurses Share Their 'You are NOT The Father' Moments

Dive into the world of our heroes: the doctors! Doctors and nurses are spilling the beans on unexpected moments in their careers, some as surprising as the famous 'You Are NOT The Father' reveals. 

From unexpected test results to out-of-control reactions, get ready for a rollercoaster of emotions: laughter, tears, and unexpected twists of fate.

1. A Whole Emotional Rollercoaster

I worked in labor and delivery. I had a very young mother come in, accompanied by her parents. She was just 12-13 and her parents looked stuffy and kept telling her that she should've had an abortion, she was too young, etc. 

Her mother was silent the whole time but leaked tears for her constantly. While she labored, I received a call from a very young boy who said he was her boyfriend. His trembling voice explained that her father wouldn't come to the hospital. 

I explained that I couldn't give out information but he could talk to her afterwards. I went in, told her he had called and she showed me a picture of him. He was white, straight red hair, pimply and tiny--the runt of the litter. 

About an hour later, her phys ed teacher stopped by to check on her, which I thought was odd. 

We didn't get many teachers checking on students. 

He was as opposite of the boyfriend as he could get: tall, very muscular, beautiful smile, and rich, chocolate brown skin. The girl's father accompanied her to the delivery room. 

Odd, but ok. The more she pushed, the louder she cried. In between, she kept saying "Sorry Daddy". Finally, out slid a very beautiful, chocolate-brown baby boy. 

I thought her father was going to pass the hell out on my delivery room floor. I did my usual "It's a boy!" And said nothing else. I handed him off to a nursery nurse and got Dad a chair. 

The new mom said "I'm sorry Daddy," over and over again. Her mom, now frowned, came to see the baby, took one look, started asking God for forgiveness, and left. 

I sent her dad home a short bit later, admonishing him to react at home, not here. I set up a time for our counselor to meet with him before I left. After talking to the new mom, she admitted her gym teacher had been giving her "special treatment". 

I explained intercourse to her and she said she'd only kissed the bff, but had stayed after school to be with her gym teacher. I'm state-mandated to report what happened, so I did. 

Two weeks later, with her world shattered, her baby was given up for adoption. I wish her the best. Of note, this was 1989.

BitchyPuddin

My husband and I were visiting our friends who’d just had a baby (we are the godparents) and we were standing in the hallway talking to both sets of grandparents. 

Well, apparently the hospital has a rule that only 5 visitors may be present in the hallway, but the security guard had let all 6 of us in for some reason and we didn’t realize it. 

This nasty nurse comes up to us, notes that there are six of us, tells us someone will have to leave immediately, and then turns to my husband and says, “Oh, are you the daddy?” 

Without missing a beat, he says, “That’s what we’re all trying to figure out here.” She gets a look of horror on her face and backs away.

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I worked in the army hospital at Ft Lewis. A woman came in for belly pain and we found out and told her she was 10 weeks pregnant. The husband at the bedside started laughing, grabbed his coat, and left the room.

He explained to us that he had been in Afghanistan until 3 weeks ago. He looked back and her and just said “Well, that’s that Brittany.” I always liked how classily he left her while she just silently stared off into space.

Mjrfrankburns

I had a vasectomy. While chatting with the doctor, he told me about another patient. This guy had three kids and came in for the snip-snip because he and his wife decided they were done having children.

The doctor opened up his sack and found nothing to snip. This guy was born without the ability to have any children. The poor doctor had to explain to him what happened. Imagine finding that out that way.

timmg

Similar, but I don't know where else to put it because it just makes me laugh. My aunt is a nurse in the maternity ward. She had a couple come in and they were both very black. Lady has the baby and it is white AF. Like, totally pale, no trace of any pigment. 

They put the baby on her mom and the mom starts yelling about how this isn't her baby and they stole her baby (in all fairness, you can be very confused during/after delivery, it wasn't stupidity), just sobbing and freaking out and the father is just sitting there and looks very confused. 

Because even he's realizing that even if she did cheat, there is no way the baby would be THAT white. The doctor and nurses are trying to assure her that this is her baby and that the skin usually darkens later.

Come to find out, when he called his mom, she pointed out that they have a second cousin who is albino, and maybe the baby got that gene. Turns out that's what happened- the baby was albino.

Beachy5313

My fiance's father is almost certainly not his biological dad. His mom was just a genuinely terrible human being who didn't even try to hide the fact that she was cheating. 

But his dad loved him from the second he was born and when the mom decided 4 years later she just didn't want the kid anymore she just gave him to his "dad" and rode off. 

J's dad ended up getting married and they tried for kids before finding out he could not have children (they ended up adopting many years later). 

He sat my fiance down when my fiance was 13 and told him the truth and that if J wanted to test they would but it was up to him. J cried and told him he just wanted him to be his dad and that was the end of that. 

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Not a doctor/nurse, but my (ex)girlfriend delivered a baby while I was in the delivery room, and turns out it wasn't mine. She was 16, I was 15. All along I was under the impression that this kid was mine, and time to be an adult. 

Took all the classes, read the books, and worked every night/weekend to save whatever money I could as a 15-year-old. I finally get the call she is in labor, so I have somebody rush me to the ER. 

Luckily for her, it wasn't a long labor, only about 6 hours, but there was a complication. The baby came out with the umbilical cord wrapped around its neck. The doctor assured us it was going to be OK, but the nurses were prepping for things to go south.

Baby comes out, it's a light shade of purple, and the nurses immediately take the baby and put on the smallest mask you have ever seen, to help it get oxygen I guess. 

I was too panicked to ask a lot of questions. They state they need to keep the baby on watch overnight, so I stay in the room with the ex.

The next evening, the baby is back in the room with us, and all seems well. The Ex is asleep, and the same nurse from the night before comes into the room, and beckons me out. 

She states that at risk of losing her job, she has to break some harsh news to me, that kid is not mine. 

She stated that while at this stage it wasn't obvious, over the next few weeks it would become clear this kid was mixed, and since both of us were white, it was a high probability that it wasn't mine.

Queued a mixed bag of emotions, and I promptly woke the ex to get a little clarification. Come to find out, she knew the chances and was just hoping it was mine because it worked better for her. 

Apparently, her father was an old-school racist and she didn't want to have to deal with that. I left the hospital to collect my thoughts, and a few weeks later was served with child support papers. One DNA test and about 6 weeks later, I am 0.0% that kid's father.

Wherever that nurse is now, I hope your life is amazing. I understand that you were not supposed to get involved in the personal side of things, and keep it professional, but you saved me a lot of additional headaches.

Nope_Thats_Not_Me

I know a girl who was pregnant with her boyfriend's best friend's baby. He found out there was a possibility about a week before she gave birth. 

I went up to see her once he was born and he looked just like the friend, there was no question. I broke the news to her boyfriend and he was absolutely devastated.

His parents were heartbroken and super pissed. They had bought the girl everything she needed, including a $500 car seat/stroller set. She refused to give anything back. 

She started up a relationship with the friend immediately after having their child, and they're still together a decade later. But the kicker for me has always been that the boyfriend and best friend were next-door neighbors.

She moved into his house after coming home from the hospital. So her ex-boyfriend and his family had to see them basically every day raising this child that they had believed to be his for the entire pregnancy. I can't even imagine. And yes, they did a DNA test right after he was born. 

maybebatshit

I worked as a lab tech before I became a nurse. We had a set of twins in the NICU that was super early and the mom was still in the OR getting sewed up from the cesarean. 

I was drawing Baby B’s blood when mom was wheeled over to Baby A’s isolette. She was crying and said, “Oh thank God you’re not black! I have been so worried the last 7 months.”

So newborn babies, especially when they’re born early, are very pink, almost red. So even if a baby was part-black, their skin isn’t necessarily dark yet. 

But looking at these babies, it was obvious they were going to be black. The shape of the face, the texture of the hair, and Baby B that I was working on had an intense Mongolian spot.

A few weeks later, my NICU nurse friend told me that the babies were now on a “no-info status” meaning security alert, can’t give anyone information about them, can’t refer to them by name, etc. 

She said there was a huge fight because the mom’s husband (white guy) obviously noticed that the babies were half black and that mom had cheated on him and got pregnant. The real dad (black guy) came in and didn’t realize the mom was even married.

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My wife and I are both brown-skinned dark-haired half-Mexicans and our moms are both 100% white blondes with blue and green eyes. So we sort of knew it was a crap shoot with our baby, but the nurse who was assisting with delivery had no idea. 

At one point she gets sort of nervous and calls for help and another I guess more senior nurse came in and nodded and came over to talk to me.

I thought there was something wrong with the baby as she came over and stumbled through some questions; so I was the father and no one else was coming, etc. Then finally she awkwardly asks if either of us happened to be blonde growing up.

I said yeah I was and both the baby's grandparents are blonde as they come and this wave of relief went over her and she brought me over to see this blonde as hell crowning baby head.

It's funny because he looks just like me if you applied a gringo Instagram filter. We often get awkward questions about his heritage and my wife always hits them with "Yeah we're not sure if he's mine." It's always funny to see people nod for a moment and then go "Wait what?"

PM__YOUR__GOOD_NEWS

I had a college buddy whose fiancée was pregnant. They were the "perfect couple," both had just over a year with great careers starting out, everything was butterflies and rainbows. 

Fast forward to the delivery room, they're in there, and out comes a very black baby. He's quite the pale redhead, and she's a blonde/blue-eyed Texas girl. He made sure everyone was okay, waited for her parents to arrive, and left without saying a word. 

He moved all his stuff out of the house while she was in the hospital, and cut off all communications with her, just walked out of their lives in the most stone-cold act I'd ever seen. They were together for nine years, and he just left cold turkey. 

She tried to contact him at his job a few times, but he quickly moved up the ladder and eventually got a job in another city. He told me once that he took solace in the fact that her family had already dropped about $10k in a wedding that never happened.

tacoscholar

I used to work with a guy whose wife was pregnant. Near the time for delivery, everyone at our place of business had a big party with gifts, money, etc. So the big day comes, the water breaks, and they get in the car to go to the hospital. 

She breaks the news on the way there that it’s not his, the kid is another race, and if he could just drop her off at the hospital and then leave, that would be great.

He took a few days off work, found a new apartment, moved out, filed for divorce, etc. He called in to work and told someone what happened, news spread pretty fast. All congratulations cards, etc were cleaned up and thrown away. Everyone was very sensitive to his pain.

Except, somehow, I don’t know how I did not get the news. So on his first day back, I walked into the office he shared with 6-7 other guys and said “Hey hey, Daddio, how’s fatherhood so far? Getting any sleep? Got some pictures? Let’s see the little tike!”

He slowly lifted his head to look at me with a painful look. The room was dead silent. One of his workmates stood up, grabbed my arm, and walked me out of the room, shushing me. 

“What happened?“ I asked, “Did it die? What’s the problem?” When he told me I was about to die myself. I still feel bad for the dude and it’s been 30 years.

BlueGillMan

I had a lesbian couple come in.

One of them was pregnant, and neither knew. Judging from all the screaming, this information was poorly received.

PrimateOnAPlanet

I used to work in the newborn nursery at a hospital. We got the babies right from delivery, cleaned them up, footprinted them, checked vitals, etc. Dads usually came in with the newborns. 

This dad comes in with this baby. Dad is white,  mom is white, and baby is very obviously not white. 

The dad was very quiet standing next to the baby, watching us clean it up. 

He says quietly, "I don't think this is my baby." You could tell he was absolutely devastated. We advised him not to sign the birth certificate until he was sure. Not sure what happened after we sent the baby back out to Mom, but I felt awful for the guy.

rootberryfloat

I’m a nurse but this didn’t happen to me. A friend of mine got pregnant in high school. She claimed it was our local doctor’s son’s kid so he agreed to deliver his grandchild for free. 

The child delivered and it was obviously half African American. The doctor’s son and girl were both white. I think he still delivered it for free as he was relieved his 14-year-old son wasn’t a dad.

Dramaqueen_069

Labor and delivery nurse here. Black babies are usually a lot lighter at birth. 

Not everyone is aware of this, so I’ve had a few dramatic deliveries where the father looks at the baby and accuses the mom of cheating because the baby isn’t as dark. Lots of drama happens on L&D.

tina_bean02

I work in anesthesia. One of my colleagues had someone naturally deliver a baby with "Steve's Lunchbox" tattooed above the "birth canal." 

The OB/GYN said to the father after the delivery, "Congratulations Steve." The guy replied that his name was indeed not Steve. Don't know if that counts.

passing_gas

My son came out and looked really tan, my ex-girlfriend and I are pretty white. I thought for a second she cheated on me.   

We are now separated for different reasons unrelated to our child. And he is pasty white as hell. Got one heck of a suntan in the uterus though.

SwampRaider

When I was born, the Indian doctor told my very very white parents, "Ooh, she looks like an ethnic baby!" It's a funny story years later, but I imagine that it wasn't so funny. 

My brunette mother had to explain to my blonde dad that yes, this baby with a full head of long, jet-black hair was actually his child. I always wondered if my dad had some doubts about me the first few months of my life, before my hair turned blonde.

PretentiousPiehole

Not quite what you’re asking but in the same vein. I’m a nurse in a level 4 neonatal ICU. We service the sickest of the sick from our state and the surrounding states, so we see it all.

We had a baby that was sick as snot. Lo and behold we discovered it’s blood/spinal fluid, etc was septic with herpes. In most babies, we avoid this by treating the herpes while the Mom is pregnant.

In this case, the mom didn’t even know she was a carrier. So where did it come from? This was the awkward and sickening moment when everyone in the room realized where the herpes came from. Turns out, the father had an affair and contracted the virus from his lover.

So yeah, while this woman’s baby is on the verge of death, she finds out her husband has been cheating on her and he is the reason their baby is sick.

ravenousbutterfly

My best friend was dating a girl and knocked her up. They got engaged and planned to get married right after the baby was born. There were about 10 of us in the waiting room waiting for her to crank out the baby. 

It was essentially her parents (his were in another state), some of her friends, and some of ours. After sitting there for about 2 hours, he walked out with a smirk on his face and said "Let's go", we all thought something horrible had happened. 

Her friends ask how the baby is, and he says "Fine, but black". He motioned for us to go, so we followed him. In the parking garage, he tells us to follow him to his apartment, then sends me a text asking if I could put him up for a while. 

We literally moved him out of his apartment and into my spare bedroom in like an hour tops. Her parents didn't know who to be mad at. The confusion on their faces when he told them the baby was black was priceless.

Goyteamsix

I am a nurse working in labor and delivery. Most of the time, if the mom thinks the baby may not be her boyfriend’s/husband’s, they will just have their friend/sister/mom with them there for the delivery and have the dad come to the hospital/room after seeing the baby. 

No guarantees because babies can change a lot over a couple of weeks. Many African American babies have very light skin when they are born and it gets darker.

I have had a Pt's husband get upset about the baby being too light (they were both black) until his mom smacked him and told him that's what he looked like when he was born.

Recently I had something I thought was interesting happen. A girl comes into labor with her boyfriend, sister, and a friend. Boyfriend doesn't seem too engaged during the process but that's not uncommon. Baby is born and is fine, sister sends dad to get some stuff. 

Note here all people involved are Hispanic and only speak Spanish. My specific medical Spanish is pretty decent and I can get you through an epidural or delivery, most things come up pretty well but I am not fluent.

So as soon as the dad leaves the sister is like I have a question for you and then proceeds to say something I can't understand at all, I try to clarify but I'm just not getting it, I offer to go get the translator. She's like no I don't want it to be official. 

She whips out her phone and through translation asks "How can we get a paternity test in the hospital?" I then have to explain that we really don't do that but you can get one at CVS. 

They tell me that the baby doesn't look like the other child of this mom and this guy and that it might be someone else's but they wanna check before telling him. 

So I just apologize and tell them how they can get a DNA test at CVS and they are like $50. This isn't the first time I've been asked about paternity testing, just had no idea how you say it in Spanish.

companionquandary

I’m not a nurse, my professor was an L&D nurse and she once saw a man running between two delivery rooms. Both women he had impregnated went into labor and gave birth the same day. 

Supposedly the one he was married to was angry because the woman he cheated with was impregnated after the wife but had her kid ten minutes before the wife.

L&D is apparently the most drama-filled section of hospitals. My SO is planning to be a nurse and he’s going to work in L&D/neonatal this year and I’m excited to hear any dramatic stories.

ThrowDiscoAway

My grandmother was a nurse. Once she was assisting with delivering a baby and the ostensible father commented that the child looked good for a premature baby. 

Without thinking, my grandmother said the truth. "That baby is not premature.” So I guess I know where I get my social obliviousness from.

tornado28

My wife is an RN/Hospital Supervisor. Code Yellow is the code over the intercom for security/large male nurses needed. 

It rarely ever happens but every now and then over the speakers you hear a “Code Yellow, Labor and Delivery.” You know the reason.

TheLegend5

I gotta give my friend credit for doing something I don't think I could ever do. Found out that after being married and having a 3 and 1-year-old, his wife had been cheating on him. Multiple times, with multiple men. (Everyone is white though so no obvious signs).

Anyway, when he finds that there is a chance neither of the kids is his, he buys two paternity tests. 

He brought them home, but then the horrible conclusion hit him.

He was prepared if they were his. He was prepared if they weren't. He had NO idea what he would do if one was and one wasn't. So he threw tests away. They divorced, she kept seeing people for a short time and he is now remarried to a fantastic person.

KMApok

I had a test done on my son when he was about 7 months old. Baby momma constantly told me he wasn't mine, but then came after me for child support. 

Got the test done, and he was mine. So I hired a lawyer, and we sat and chilled. 4 months later she's arrested on charges of distribution of substances (where my son lived) and he's been with me for the last 8 years. Now she pays me child support. 

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I am not a doctor, but a distant cousin of mine definitely has children that don’t belong to the father… My cousin was adopted as an infant and was essentially a “crack baby.” 

She struggled with some developmental issues and has a low IQ compared to most, but can still live on her own with little to no issues. She (a white woman) married a Latino guy (really dark brown skin) several years ago and they had a son together who has dark hair, dark skin, and dark eyes. 

He is easily identified as their son. The real trouble happens years later...Her husband, who we’ll call Javier, has some IQ issues of his own. Just a little slow when it comes to tasks and reasoning.

Anyway, Javier is in the military and gets deployed internationally for about 6 months. When he comes home, his wife is 4 months pregnant...you do the math. 

He still believes the baby is his own, even after it’s born with pale skin and blonde hair & blue eyes. If that wasn’t bad enough, it happened AGAIN two years later with another baby. 

Same blonde hair and blue eyes. Everyone knows she slept with a different man (it was actually her high school boyfriend), but Javier still thinks the children are his. It’s kind of sad, but at this point, there’s not much you can do. He has raised the kids as his own.

brickwallwaterfall

I was watching a paternity show. My favorite case was one where the female spent almost the entire 25 minutes going over all this "proof" that the kid was his. 

Using facial similarities, swearing up and down, and even bringing in witnesses attest that she was of good character and wouldn't cheat, even straight insulting the guy saying how shitty it is he denies his child and won't grow up, etc. 

Through all of this, the guy just stood there quietly not saying a word, not defending himself, nothing. 

Finally, the judge asks if he has anything to say or would like to plead his case. 

He motions to the only thing on the desk a manilla folder. The plaintiff takes it to the judge she opens it reads it for a minute then dismisses the case in favor of the guy. 

Turns out he had been deployed overseas in Afghanistan during the year before and during the entire pregnancy and birth. He came home after 4 years and was introduced to "his" 2-year-old child.

unlimitednerd

I am neither a Dr nor a Nurse, but a good friend of mine was out of the country on an emergency with his work and I ended up bringing his wife to the ER.

My friend and I are (even still) best friends and all of us went to high school together I had no idea his wife was unfaithful however, I was in the delivery room as she didn't want to be w/o anyone there.

Baby came out.....straight up Asian. I knew....the OB knew. I just walked out of the room then. All I could hear was her wailing saying her marriage was over and the nurses quickly picked up on why she was crying.

I called him and told him the news, he explained to his work that a true emergency was at home so they chartered him a flight home (Saudi Aramco high class action) and he filed for divorce right then and there.

During the divorce, out of their 3 kids, 0 were my friend’s. It didn't just mess my friend up, it messed the kids up as well because they knew him as "daddy".

The Court tried to make my friend pay support for those kids who weren't his because "they became accustomed" to it and the dad's abandonment was borderline criminal. He had 0 biological attachment.

Family courts are so biased against men. My friend spent a fortune fighting it out of principle and eventually won. It emotionally ruined him and now he doesn't trust women. He won't go on dates or anything because of it. I can't say I blame him but that is beyond messed up.

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My brother's friend was in the army and had a shotgun wedding with a woman he had been dating for a few months, she's white American and he's white Hispanic, the baby came out black. 

Until the results came in, she was adamant that the baby was his, she even went to the extent of claiming he was a bad father because he wouldn't claim "his" child. 

The results came back and she said the baby was his and the paternity test revealed that was a lie. Pretty much, she thought she was going to stay with him for that army money.

lolalaughed

A coworker’s aunt just found out her dad wasn’t actually her dad. So she was really big into genealogy and had mapped out her family tree as far as she could go. 

She took one of those Ancestry DNA tests about two months ago, and her father’s side didn’t line up with what she was expecting. In fact, she didn’t recognize a single name that she was matched with paternally. 

She casually asked her dad if he knew any of the names, and he recognized the surname of the maintenance man at the apartment complex where he and his wife (aunt’s mom) lived shortly after they had gotten married. 

Claimed he was a lousy repairman who always flirted with his wife, etc. Aunt’s mom had passed away a few years ago, so she decided to not tell her dad the news.

Kjwells94

I was blood-typing a newborn once. Mom was an O+, baby was AB+... Which is more or less not possible. I immediately panicked, because Jesus God they mixed up the babies. Someone has the wrong baby. 

We're gonna get sued, they're gonna have to genetic test the entire nursery, what if they subpoena me for being the idiot who discovered the problem? I don't have insurance, what if they sue me?!

After repeating the test three times I called the floor and told them that they'd either drawn the wrong baby's blood, or they'd switched babies because Mom couldn't be the baby's mother. Lol no, it was a donor egg. The redraw matched fine, everyone was where they were supposed to be. Oh god my heart, though!

WishIWereHere

Happened to a dude I knew. He got his girlfriend pregnant just as he was about to break up with her. She was trashy and he came from a rich family. But she was pregnant so he did the right thing.

Turns out that the kid wasn’t his so he kicked them both out. Apparently, the father of the baby was some poor deadbeat.

Sweetdish

My dad was accused of being the father to a child that wasn't his by a woman he slept with (my dad wasn't exactly the most faithful man), and the child was his, even though the child was mixed. The woman was white, and so is my dad.

The case actually went to a TV show. The test results came out, and shockingly enough, he wasn't the father. One moment from the show, Trisha asked my dad "Do you have any other kids?" and he just smirked. 

We never really found out how many women he got pregnant in that time, and it's likely I went to school with my brothers and sisters but neither of us knew we had the same dad. 

I never really found out what happened to the woman or to the baby either, but I truly do hope that the baby grew up healthy and happy, and I hope the mother found peace with herself.

egliseerosee

I was not in the hospital, but a friend and his GF were on again/off again and she got pregnant. She swears it’s his, he wants a paternity test. He moves in with her and her Mom, she has the baby and takes the test. 

The test is taking a while to come back, him and his family are over the moon with the baby, kinda forgot about it. 

Mentions it to GF's Mom one day and she says “Oh yeah, she didn’t tell you? 

Came back awhile ago, totally your baby!” Awesome, all is well! A few months later they’re moving out and he finds the test in a box, not his baby.

LeafsChick

My niece, Caucasian, Eastern and Western European and her husband, Dutch and Jamaican have two kids. One daughter with skin like Halle Berry and a son who is as Ginger and pale as they come. 

Biological siblings with lots of differences. So I never assume anything.

richardec

I'm not a medical professional, but I know of a related court case that made it to the state's highest court: A black guy and a white woman are married. 

She is a former streetwalker and at some point they separate, he moves out of state, she moves out of state, and she goes back to streetwalking. The guy gets a phone call around 9 months later from a friend/relative of his ex saying that his ex is pregnant and ready to give birth any day now.

The guy drives across the country so he could be there for the delivery. Baby comes out and is white, has blue eyes, and red hair.

Mom says it "must be a trick baby." Seeing as the guy is black, he understandably peaces out.

Later on, the mom's parental rights were terminated (as you can imagine from the streetwalking she was not a fit mother) and the state went about trying to find the dad to be notified/before the kid could be adopted. 

Since the dude was still her husband at the time the child was born, legally he was the presumptive father. The state does genetic testing and twist turns out HE IS THE FATHER. For an extra kick in the pants, the state ends up terminating his parental rights for abandonment. Not a happy ending.

tardersauced

My brother was doing his ob-gyn rotation. His story is that in the first birth he assisted, the woman had her husband leave the room. Seems odd these days but he had the husband step out for the comfort of the patient. 

The baby was delivered and the color was not even close. Very white parents and a very black baby. She wants him to stay to talk to her husband who is about to come back and he bails on the whole situation. She was playing the odds all the way to the end.

inkseep1

My mother used to work in a medical lab many decades ago. One day, another woman who worked in the building was visiting the lab, and during the conversation, mentioned that she was blood type X, her husband was type Y, and their child was type Z (I don’t remember the specific types).

One of the younger lab techs blurted out “That’s impossible,” and the doctor in the lab just stared daggers at him. 

Luckily, the visitor either didn’t notice or didn’t care, and moved along shortly after. My mom still remembers it as one of the most awkward moments she’d ever been privy to.

fuzzus628

One of my favorite cousins just did a DNA test with her dad, and discovered that they were not biologically related at all. This is especially horrible because my aunt (her mother) is one of the most ridiculously zealous and judgmental people I have ever met. 

She screams at the baby cousins when they don't behave perfectly, she literally threw a pocket bible at a woman in a grocery store after the woman was on the phone and said "crap" or something, and she likes to send me unsolicited long letters about "God's plan" for my life. 

Surprisingly, her husband is the most fun and laid-back person I've ever met. He did not deserve this, or her.

toss_my_potatoes

My great-granny grew up and lived in a very bad/poor area of a city near a military base around WW1 AND WW2. In order to make ends meet, she became a streetwalker. 

Our understanding is that she was very good at her job and therefore very popular with all the military men around. She did not care what you looked like or your skin color as long as you paid. 

Her first husband finally figured out that she was the infamous town lady of the night when her first kid came out very obviously mixed.

They got divorced and she found a second husband that didn't mind it at first. 1 white child and 2 mixed babies later, they divorced.

Repeat with 2 out of 11 known living kids being 100% white and a total of 5 husbands as well as several boyfriends and fiances walking out on her. 

Stories are that the hospital staff used to make bets on how soon she'd be back and what mix (Black, Native American, Asian, Hispanic, etc) the kid would be at that time.

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  Not a nurse or a doctor, but I was the son. Black dad, white mom -- I came out fully white. Dad bailed.   

Turns out after paternity testing, I AM his. I'm just super white, still am this day. I could pass as Italian or Latino, but I definitely don't look half-black.

PNDMike

Here's a completely weird and random pregnancy thing. Sometimes when I'm pregnant (I'm on baby #3 now) I worry that the baby will come out mixed, even though I have literally never had an affair in my life. 

I have this incredibly weird fear that I've been taken advantage of and didn't know it and when the baby comes out it will be obvious that my husband is not the father, and I will have 0 way of being able to explain why the baby is not his. 

Weird huh!??! Oh pregnancy, you make people think totally weird things sometimes.

stylophonics

This happened to me when my stepdad and I were at the cancer ward. We were waiting for a nerve block procedure when the doctor came in and said something along the lines of “It’s amazing how similar your son looks to you.” 

My stepdad just went along with it. The doctor left and my stepdad and I just busted out laughing.

TwoStrokeMcGee