The Baby Swap is a completely made-up process set in a dystopian setting. Anything mentioned in this book about the Baby Swap is fiction, including the pancakes. I'm sorry to say that all this time, the pancakes you thought you have been eating are, in fact, fake! My condolences.
How the Baby Swap works:
Every year, on April 33, all the pregnant mothers go to a hospital to have their baby. At 3:33, all the babies are born. But before the mother has a chance to see their babies, they are taken away by the doctors to a room that is set up like a nursery. All the babies are put in separate cribs, waiting for their new mothers to come and choose them. When the mothers come in, they must choose a baby. Some of them are lucky enough to choose the baby they just gave birth to by looking at the babies' traits, while others choose somebody else's babies to bring home as their own. If a mother gave birth to a baby but already has a child at home, they are not allowed to choose another baby. That usually leaves open slots for women who didn't just give birth, to come in to choose a baby. That is only if they don't already have a baby at home. This is the Baby Swap.
April 33, 3:33pm. That is the day that all the babies are born. That is the day that I was born. I was part of the Baby Swap. I am Rosie.
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The Baby Swap
Short StoryWhen Rosie turns 14, she sets off to find her real birth mother, but she meets someone along the way who is more important than she ever imagined.
