Based on JP Delaney's bestselling book, 'The Swap' delves into the devastating consequences of a hospital baby switch. Two couples, Maddie and Pete, and Lucy and Miles, discover their premature babies were accidentally swapped. The story explores the emotional turmoil of raising another's child and the ethical complexities surrounding Maddie's postnatal depression, which is tragically weaponized against her. Writer Grace Ofori-Attah, a former NHS doctor and psychiatry consultant, sheds light on the realities of women's mental health after childbirth.
Based on the bestselling book by JP Delaney, it centres around two couples, Maddie and Pete and Lucy and Miles , who had premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit at the same time – only to later discover the babies were accidentally swapped, and they went home with the wrong children.
Through a series of vivid flashbacks, we see Maddie’s mental health decline after ‘son’ Theo’s traumatic premature birth. She is immediately separated from him and misses the early bonding rituals of holding and breastfeeding him as he spends weeks in an incubator in the NICU.
She says it's important to depict 'real, relatable characters who have experienced mental health problems, and also show realistic, varied reactions to it'.Maddie is concerned with the way agencies like the courts will use her past psychiatric history to paint her as a bad mother, potentially dangerous to her own child. But there’s also a resurgence of her own historic fear of not being able to bond with Theo because of her illness.
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