‘I won mother of the year’: Mum of identical twins reveals she was forced to take them to police to get a FINGERPRINT after struggling to tell them apart
- Sofi Rodriguez revealed that she struggled to tell her identical twins apart
- The mother, who lives in Argentina, said she had to take the children to the police
- Police officers collected their fingerprints to identify the two
A mother of identical twins has revealed that she had to take her babies to a police station to be fingerprinted because she couldn’t tell them apart.
Sophia Rodriguez took to Twitter to joke about winning the “mother of the year” award after being forced to ask police for help identifying her children.
The Argentina-based mom’s confession garnered a lot of backlash, with other twins and parents flooding the comments section with similar stories about how they singled out their kids.
Caption of the viral tweet, which garnered over 15.2 million views, “Tomorrow I have to go to the police to have my twins fingerprinted and told which is which, I won the mother of the year award” , Sofi explained how she struggled to keep her kids apart last week.
Sofi Rodriguez, a mother of identical twins, has revealed she had to take her babies to a police station to be fingerprinted because she couldn’t tell them apart
In another tweet, Sofi wrote: “They look different in the pictures, but that’s because they’re from different angles or the light… sets them apart, in real life they’re the same.”
Sofi revealed that the police officers were unable to identify the babies, so they thought they could use the vaccinations to determine which baby was which.
But doctors seemed to have made a mistake and vaccinated one of the babies twice.
In a later update to the saga, Sofi finally revealed that the National Person’s Registry called her and they were now able to differentiate between the pair.
Another twin on Twitter was quick to share one of their own stories, revealing that he’s not entirely sure if his mom switched him and his brother.
He explained that as children they wore bracelets that identified them.
One baby wore the jewelry on his right hand and the other child on his left.
However, when the bracelets fell off one day, the parents were stunned.
They put the bracelets back on without knowing exactly who was who.
“We’re almost 30 years old and maybe I’m him and he’s me,” the Twitter user said in the tweet.
Another mother told Conz Preti Insider that she too was a parent of identical twins and was “terrified” of confusing them.
She explained that initially she had wanted to have her children’s ears pierced and have them wear earrings in different colors – which is a tradition in Argentina – but since her babies were born in New York, the nurses couldn’t pierce the ears make newborns.
The mother, who lives in Argentina, explained how she struggled to identify her twins and had to ask police officers for help. Pictured when they were 45 days old
Sofi took to Twitter to joke about winning the ‘mother of the year’ award, sparking other stories of twins and parents of twins
She then chose to keep the “Baby A” and “Baby B” bracelet labels the hospital had given them.
But when the babies grew faster than expected, she had to cut them off.
Then she started using child-resistant nail polish and painted “one of the twins’ toenails blue and the other pink.”
And while the nail polish helped, Conz also gave Sofi messages of support, assuring her it would get easier.
After spending time with her kids and as they got older, she started noticing little things that made them look different, like their hairlines and their ears.
Allison LaCross, a midwife who has attended more than 1,000 deliveries, advised parents to be aware of the spaces babies spend time in,” she told Insider.
She suggested always putting one baby on the left side of the crib and the other on the right. Allison also said who should choose specific sides for their strollers.
“As they grow and you get to know your kids better, there will be subtle mannerisms, physical traits or personality differences that will help you tell one from the other,” she said.