High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Switched at Birth is an American television drama series the centers around two girls – Bay Kennish and Daphne Vasquez – who learn that they were switched at birth. The Kennish family must struggle with the fact that their biological daughter is deaf from having meningitis as a child and must accept the character of Regina Vasquez, Daphne`s "mother." Bay Kennish attempts to find out how her life would have been if she hadn`t been switched at birth. The one-hour long series premiered on June 6, 2011.