Mother asks police to help identify her twins
Desperate times call for desperate measures...
There's no doubt: kids can be a handful.
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Now imagine having two little ones, who are the same age, and you have double the trouble.
One issue that many new identical twin moms and dads have revealed is that they can sometimes struggle to identify their babies.
Most babies look pretty alike for a while, but for twin parents, this might be an issue for quite some time.
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One mom, Sofia Rodriguez from Córdoba, Argentina, recently found herself in a bit of a bind when she couldn't identify her twins and decided she had to do something drastic.
So she considered enlisting her local law enforcement's help.
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In a tweet, which has been translated from Spanish to English, the mom of twins Valentin and Lorenzo said:
Tomorrow I have to go to the police to have my twins fingerprinted so they can tell me which one is which. I won the 'Mother of the Year' award.
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She even explained that her two-month-old twins do look different in photos but in person, they look exactly the same.
Previously, she had used blue ribbon to identify Valentin, but had decided to cut it off as he was growing and now she has this new dilemma on her hands.
Mañana tengo que ir a la policía para que le tomen la huella digital a mis gemelos y me digan cuál es cuál🤦🏽♀️, el premio a la madre del año me gane.
— Sofi Rodriguez (@sofiar388) March 2, 2023
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In the end, she took the babies to the police and managed to get the babies' fingerprints done, although it doesn't seem to have helped the situation a lot.
In a follow-up tweet, Rodriguez showed a picture of the print with the caption: "We took his prints but they don't appear in the system. We still don't know who is who."
Le sacamos las huellas pero no figuran en el sistema. Seguimos sin saber quién es quien. pic.twitter.com/HbrNf2Eg1t
— Sofi Rodriguez (@sofiar388) March 2, 2023
A few other twin parents decided to help her out by giving her some advice, while also letting her know that it's not the end of the world if she gets confused sometimes:
Today they are 17 years old... But when they were just born, they put a purple bracelet and earrings on Cata and a pink bracelet and earrings on Valen... With references and everything, I bathed the same one 2 times and medicated the same one 2 times ... But they survived the chaos.
Rename it and start from scratch.
Luckily, her two kids won't remember a thing and hopefully she'll get a hang of things soon enough.
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