A British woman who gave birth in Spain was kept apart from her newborn for 22 days after authorities insisted the baby wasn’t hers.
Stacie Thompson, 27 told of her ordeal to Good Morning Britain after having to undergo DNA tests to prove she was the mother of her daughter, Anzelika.
The dental nurse was in Costa del Sol on Spain’s south coast when she went into labour at 36 weeks and delivered in her mother’s home there.
When Thompson presented to hospital the next day she says staff were immediately sceptical about the child being hers because she had given birth at home.
Speaking from Malaga, Spain Ms Thompson said: “I had given birth to my daughter and the following day we went to the hospital when we arrived there it was obvious that the staff were sort of very mistrusting and immediately they said that me and Anzelika would be separated and at that point we left the hospital then the police were called and we were brought back to the hospital.”
Stacie Thompson.
Eventually she was asked to submit DNA to convince medical authorities.
“When they asked me for a DNA test it wasn’t alarming because indeed she is mine so the problem was the amount of time the DNA test took,” said Thompson.
“Every day was really hard, I didn’t sleep very well during the time at the hospital because I just wanted to be with her, it was absolutely heartbreaking.”
Ms Thompson conceded that the language barrier was to blame for any confusion that occurred with her initial conversations with staff calling it “a breakdown in communication”.
Now reunited with her baby the new mum is keen to bring her daughter back to her home in Stratford, East London once all the relevant paperwork has been filed.
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