We always joked dad looked nothing like his parents - then we found out why17 hours ago Share Save Jim Reed • @jim_reed Health reporter Share SaveFamily photo Matthew's father, pictured as a baby in the late 1940sMatthew's dad had brown eyes and black hair. There was a running joke in his family that "dad looked nothing like his parents", the teacher from southern England says. Matthew's father had been swapped at birth in hospital nearly 80 years ago. BBC News is now aware of five cases of babies swapped by mistake in maternity wards from the late 1940s to the 1960s. Working together, they eventually tracked down birth records from 1946, months after the end of World War Two.