A French court has granted compensation of €400,000 to two women who were accidentally switched at birth.

Additional compensation has been granted to both families - €300,000 to each of the three parents and €60,000 to each of three siblings - with the total reaching €1.88m.

The BBC reports the mistake was made in a private clinic in Cannes, when two children who were placed next to each other in incubators were given to the wrong parents.

Though the mistake was discovered ten years ago, there was never any suggestion that the families would switch back.

Initially, both mothers had concerns as they left the clinic, with the skin tones and hair lengths being slightly different, but were assured by staff that nothing was wrong.

Ten years later, one of the mothers, Sophie Serrano, decided to check for sure. A DNA test revealed that neither she nor her husband were their daughter's biological parents.

An investigation helped them find the other family, and both decided to pursue the matter in court.

Manon Serrano, one of the children, found meeting her biological family "disturbing."

"You find yourself in front of a woman who is biologically your mother but who is a stranger."