Replaced contacts on my iphone by mistake. Can I recover my old list?

Hi all! Last night I bought a new iphone 5 and gave my old iphone 4 to my husband. At the store they transferred my contacts to the new phone and his contacts to his iphone 4. At home I realized I hadn't done a full backup of my old phone but wasn't worried beacuse I has been synching frequently. I thought I had unchecked the contacts from the itunes back up and went ahead and did a back up of the old phone so I could get back the txt messages and everything else except the contacts since my husband's were now in that old phone...I only wanted the rest of the data that was still there. Since I had my contacts in my new phone I thought I was fine. Ejected the old phone and plug the new and restored from back up. All data I wanted was on my new phone but my husband's contacts too. My contacts gone! Is there anyway I can get those contacts back??? Help!

There is no option to include or not include contacts with the iPhone's backup. There is an option to include or not include syncing contacts with a supported address book app on your computer, which is separate from the iPhone's backup.
When you updated the backup for the old iPhone, this included his contacts. You transferred the backup for the old iPhone to your new iPhone and contacts are included with the backup with no way to exclude contacts.
Your contacts should be available in the Address Book app on your Mac. You can replace the contacts on your iPhone with your contacts available in the Address Book on your Mac. Under the Info tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes, there is an option to replace data on the iPhone with Contacts, Calendar events, etc. Select Contacts followed by a sync. This will replace all contacts on your iPhone with all contacts in the Address Book app on your Mac.

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