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The mothers at the centre of an astonishing baby mixup last night refused to swop back their daughters.
The two women, who have cared for the girls for ten months, said they could not go through with the exchange agreed earlier this week.
Jaroslava Trojanova and Jaroslava Cermakova, both 25, gave birth in the southern Czech town of Trebic last December.
But it was only last month that the suspicions of one of the fathers led to the revelation that their children had been accidentally exchanged in hospital.
Jaroslava Cermakova and her husband Jan have been living with Veronika, although their real daughter is Nikola.
Jaroslava Trojanova and her partner, Libor Broza, took home Nikola, although Veronika is really their child.
The families struggled to cope with their extraordinary predicament before deciding on a pre-Christmas swap.
But yesterday Miss Trojanova was adamant she could not give up her non-biological baby.
"I cannot even begin to imagine a life without Nikola," said the factory worker.
"How can I now see her as someone else's child and not my own?"
Mrs Cermakova, who is pregnant again, also insisted she would not hand over the girl she was given.
"I have loved my daughter for almost a year now," she said.
"This time cannot be erased from my heart. But I will learn to love my other, biological daughter too."
The couples have moved into a retreat and have discussed raising their children as 'one big family'.
Disagreeing with his partner, Mr Broza, 29, insisted he wanted to take home his real daughter Veronika.
"We are facing a horrible dilemma and the mothers are suffering the most," he said.
"But we will eventually need to swop our babies back.
"I would like to have my own daughter, although my love for Nikola will never diminish."
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