Related for Kiddushin 146:8
אמר רב חסדא שלשה נאמנים לאלתר אלו הן אסופי חיה ופוטרת חברותיה
R'Hisda said: Three are believed there and then,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When the doubt first arises, but not afterwards.');"><sup>11</sup></span> and these are they: a foundling, a midwife, and she who frees her companions [from the suspicion of uncleanness]. A foundling, as stated.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The parents' claim is admitted only while he is in the street, but not after.');"><sup>12</sup></span>
Tosefta Kiddushin
A man who went with his wife to the land beyond the sea, and he, his wife and his children came back, and he said: "The wife that went with me to the land beyond the sea—this is her and these are her children"—he needs to bring evidence neither about her nor about the children [to prove that they are his and hers]. "[The wife that went with me...] died, but here are her children"—he needs to bring evidence about the children but doesn't need to bring evidence about the wife. A woman/wife is believed when she says, "These are my children". (The following translated from the Ehrfurt manuscript:) A man is believed when he says: "The wife that I married in the land beyond the sea—this is her and these are her children"—he needs to bring evidence neither about the wife, nor about the children. "[I married a wife there but] she died, and these are her children"—he needs to bring evidence on both the wife and the children. A woman is believed when he says "These are my children."
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