The DNA test that showed two women had been swapped at birth

Two families in the West Midlands are waiting for compensation in the first documented case of babies being switched at birth in NHS history.

Cases where babies have been accidentally swapped on maternity wards are practically unheard of in the UK .

In the first series of The Gift , Jenny Kleeman looked at the extraordinary truths that can unravel when people take at-home DNA tests.

Joan was handed Jessica instead of her biological daughter, Claire , in 1967 .

Joan was desperate to know what kind of life Claire had had.

She and Tony had to break the news to Jessica , who had lived her entire life believing Joan was her mother, and Tony was her brother.

Claire and Joan have been discovering how much they have in common, such as their tastes in food and clothes.

“We’re very close,” Claire says of her newly discovered family. “I'd like to spend as much time as I can with them, of course, but that time is gone. It was taken away.” While Claire now calls her “ Mum ”, Joan tells me that Jessica no longer does. But Joan feels only that she has gained a daughter. “It doesn't make any difference to me that Jessica isn't my biological daughter,” she says. “She's still my daughter and she always will be.”.