When Saffron Crisp was pregnant with her twin daughters, Delilah and Azayla, she knew exactly which was which. During her pregnancy, her medical team referred to the girls as many providers would during the birth of multiples, as "Baby A" and "Baby B." Delilah, or Baby A, was smaller than Azayla, Baby B, and that's what Crisp expected when they were born. But when the hospital handed her Azayla, something wasn't quite right.
Although she tried to give birth vaginally, she ended up having an emergency C-section. Afterward, the medical team briefly showed her the babies before whisking Delilah off to neonatal intensive care. But it wasn't Delilah at all; it was actually Azayla. She took to her TikTok, @thewardtwins24, to explain the crazy story and how the girls were switched at birth.
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It seems the medical staff mixed things up.
Had she given birth vaginally, Baby A would have been born first, but that's not what happened. Baby B came first instead, but the mom didn't' realize that. She was calling Baby A Delilah, but she was actually Azayla, and vice versa.
"Twin A was the smaller twin, she was closest to the exit and we were told twin A was going to be coming out first regardless," she explained. "When they pulled the babies out they just flashed me a quick little look at them over the over the screen and then Delilah was swept off to NICU."
The mom knew her babies.
Crisp knew who was who because of their size, so when she saw Azayla, she got worried.
"Through the whole pregnancy Azayla was my bigger baby so I was given her and I thought 'Oh my god she's tiny. Like how small is Delilah gonna be?'" she shared.
When she saw the girls together several hours later, however, she knew what had happened. "But when they wheeled Delilah in my room six hours later she was humungous," she said.
"They just pulled whatever one they wanted out and called her Delilah but me and my partner looked at them and we said we're not going to swap them back because she is an Azayla through and through and she is a Delilah."
The girls' names seem to suit them.
Crisp said that after meeting her girls, the names they thought they'd give them didn't quite work. She's glad the mix-up occurred.
"You look at them and they just look like their names and I think even if they come out the right way around I probably would have switched them," she explained.
Apparently this happens a lot. A TikToker commented, "My nieces were switched at birth. It happens more than you think lol."
It happened to this mom, too, who wrote, "I have triplets 2 identical 1 not we named them by position in my belly we are adamant they got the identicals mixed up."
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Crisp thought the whole thing was pretty funny.
After sharing her story, it seems some people took it the wrong way. In a follow-up video, she said she wasn't upset with medical staff, and her daughters were never in harm's way. It was just a silly little mix-up in the hospital, and everyone was perfectly happy and healthy.
She called it a "harmless" story and said people need to leave her alone. Crisp said she was never upset, adding, "I'm grateful for my daughters."
