A Colorado man just found out he was switched at birth 38 years ago and now he’s suing the hospital
Aug 18, 2026, 8:33 AM
Jeremy Morrison grew up loved. He played sports, did well in school, and built a good life. He’s now a welding inspector for a wind energy company living in Colorado City, Colorado. And two years ago, a DNA test told him that none of it happened with the family he was supposed to have.
Morrison and another man named Kyle Bylin are suing Unity Medical Center in Grafton, North Dakota, after at-home DNA tests revealed they were switched at birth on Jan. 26, 1988, the only two babies born at the hospital that day. The discovery started with a Christmas gift: Bylin randomly received a DNA testing kit, took it, and was matched with a biological aunt on a genealogy website. That aunt’s nephew? Jeremy Morrison. When Morrison took his own test, the results were undeniable.
“That’s when my mind was just completely blown,” Bylin told reporters. “We could have never imagined that it was an actual birth switch that occurred.” For Morrison, the truth hit home the moment he saw a photograph of Bylin’s brother, the family resemblance was unmistakable.
According to the lawsuit, filed in North Dakota state court last week, each baby was sent home with the wrong family. Bylin, who was biologically born Jeremy Morrison, says he still has the hospital bracelet that incorrectly identified him. Unity Medical Center released a statement saying there is no evidence hospital staff caused the switch. The families disagree.
Morrison, now 38 and living in southern Colorado, believes that had the switch never happened, he would have grown up alongside his biological brother and father on the North Dakota grain farm where Bylin was raised. Instead, he grew up as an only child in a different family, through a divorce at age 7, through wishing he had a sibling, through building an entire identity that, it turns out, started with someone else’s hospital bracelet.
But Morrison isn’t letting the revelation erase what he had. “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.”
