Men Uncover 38-Year-Old Baby Swap After DNA Test and Take Legal Action

TWO men who found out they were swapped at birth have accused the hospital they were born in of robbing them of their real lives.

Kyle Bylin and Jeremy Morrison, both 38, discovered they had mistakenly been taken by each other’s families hours apart on January 26, 1988.

Kyle Bylin with his biological mother, Liz O’Toole Credit: AP Kyle Bylin’s family in Adams, in the 1990s (L-R) Bud, Darren, Kyle, and Keith Bylin Credit: AP

In a shocking twist of fate, Kyle discovered who his real family were after randomly taking a DNA test he received for Christmas.

The at-home exam revealed that he was actually related to Jeremy’s “family”.

Kyle said: “That’s when my mind was just completely blown.

“We could have never imagined that it was an actual birth switch that occurred.”

Kyle Bylin as a baby Jeremy Morrison as a baby

Jeremy said he was convinced of the exam results after seeing a picture of Kyle’s brother and realising they looked very alike.

Jeremy and Kyle were the only two babies born on January 26, 1988 at Unity Medical Center in Grafton, North Dakota, according to court documents.

But on that fateful day, their parents each took home the wrong child.

The hospital has claimed that there is no evidence staff were behind the switch.

Jeremy Morrison pictured in 2026 Credit: AP Kyle Bylin with a computer in Adams, North Dakota, in the 1990s Credit: AP

But Kyle, whose name has been Jeremy Morrison for the last 38 years, said he still has the hospital bracelet misidentifying him as Kyle Bylin.

Two years have passed since the DNA tests shattered what they thought they knew about their families including disorienting moments, emotional family meetings and thoughts about the what-ifs.

Evelyn Newton, who raised Kyle as her own, said he was “still my son and that is never going to change”.

She said: “But I feel robbed of the life I should have had with my biological son.

“You can’t go back and replace 35 years. First steps, driving a car, getting married how do you make up for that?”

The hospital does not dispute that the swap took place.

But it says there is no evidence to suggest staff were responsible for the error.

Unity Medical said: “We recognize the profound impact this discovery has had on them and their families.

“Unfortunately, because of the passage of nearly four decades, the medical and staffing records that might have provided additional clarity no longer exist, and no members of the delivery team from that time are still employed by the hospital.

Jeremy still feels the parents he grew up with, Elizabeth O’Toole and Terry Morrison, are his mum and dad.

But he thinks his childhood has been good in general.

“I was loved. I played sports. I did well in school,” he said.

“A DNA test is not going to take away 38 years of memories.”

Jeremy now lives in Colorado City, Colorado, and works as a welding inspector for a wind energy company.

If he had not been switched at birth, Jeremy figures he would still be with his biological brother and father on their North Dakota grain farm where Kyle grew up.

Evelyn said she never had any thought that Kyle might not be their biological son as she and her then-husband, Keith Bylin, were raising him.

His immediate family had light hair and Kyle’s was dark – but her husband had relatives with dark hair, and Newton herself was adopted, so she didn’t know what her own blood relatives looked like.

Kyle and Jeremy have now met their biological parents.

The encounters were welcoming but awkward, they said.

The two swapped men have not yet met each other, but have spoken on the phone.