Netflix documentary A Child of My Own tells the stranger-than-fiction story of a hospital worker who went to extreme lengths in her efforts to become a mother. Its director recounts their meetings in a Mexican prison<\/p>\n
The CCTV footage of the hospital corridor is grainy but you can make out a young woman carrying an oversized gift bag. Nothing unusual there. Except that inside the bag is a newborn baby girl, just hours old. And the woman carrying the bag, walking out of the hospital\u2019s main entrance, past two security guards who are idly chatting, is not the baby\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n
Her name is Eleonor Alejandra Mar\u00edn Mendoza, known to everyone as Alejandra. When film-maker Maite Alberdi<\/a> met her in a low-security Mexican prison, Alejandra was in the final year of a 13-year jail sentence for snatching the baby. Alberdi listened rapt as Alejandra told her story: \u201cEverything she was telling me was extraordinary, stranger than fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n
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