Mum cannot inform her new child twins aside after ‘distressing’ hospital mix-up

A mum has been left distressed after a hospital blunder led to her mixing up her twins, and she’s been calling them by the wrong names ever since.

Saffron Crisp revealed how the birth of her daughters turned her plans upside down. She’d picked out the perfect names for her twin girls well before their arrival, but when the midwives fetched the “wrong” tot first, it sent her plans into a spin.

The Ipswich mum, aged 24, had already decided on names for her babies pre-birth, but post-delivery, she recounted: “My consultant came in, he said they pulled the wrong baby out first! So the wrong baby came out first and because the first baby out is Delilah, the second baby out is Azayla.”

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With Baby A dubbed Delilah and Baby B named Azayla, she figured they’d pop out in that pecking order. But when Saffron, geared up for a natural delivery, had to go for an emergency C-section, the plot thickened.

She’d been clued in that Baby A would make an entrance first, but the script flipped. Post-birth, the 24-year-old realised a size swap – Azayla, previously the bigger bubba, was now the littler one, and everyone was calling her Delilah.

In the end Saffron and her other half chose to stick with the names given to their twins even after realising they might have mixed them up. She confessed: “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.

“When they pulled the babies out they just flashed me a quick little look at them over the over screen and then Delilah was swept off to NICU. Throughout 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?’

“Delilah is going to be half the size of her and I was panicking because I thought she was going to be in the NICU for ages. But when they wheeled Delilah in my room six hours later she was humongous.

“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. 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.”

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