Ensuring twins don't get mixed up? How?

I am a mom of two sets of identical twins.
We bought two very different colors of nail polish, and our girls got their
fingernails painted, one girl had red or pink, the other had blue or purple.
We did the same for our boys, except we painted only their big toe nails, one
had green, the other had blue.
We only needed to do this for a few weeks, until we really got to know our
babies. It also made a huge difference for the staff at the hospital too!

"Gretchen" wrote in
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Hi, congratulations on your new daughters, and what wonderful weights!
Good job, mama! My twins are b/g, so telling them apart wasn't an
issue, but I think some parents here put different colored nail polish
on each baby's big toe...
Good luck, feel well.
Gretchen ~ mama to Emily and Edan (March1, 1999) and Matan (June 13,
2002)



Thank heaven for BG twins! ;-)

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I'm Jonathan Wolgamuth and I approved this message.

"Gretchen" wrote in
:

Hi, congratulations on your new daughters, and what wonderful weights!
Good job, mama! My twins are b/g, so telling them apart wasn't an
issue, but I think some parents here put different colored nail polish
on each baby's big toe...
Good luck, feel well.
Gretchen ~ mama to Emily and Edan (March1, 1999) and Matan (June 13,
2002)



Thank heaven for BG twins! ;-)

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I'm Jonathan Wolgamuth and I approved this message.

Hi
I am the mother of 2 sets of identicals- we got a permanet marker
(black) and just wrote there intials of the bottom of their feet ,
because the middle intials are all differant even though there first are
the same for the boys and also the girls, at bath time then just checked
it to make sure it was still clear- as they got older we just learned
differant expressions -etc. Good luck to your family-cyndi
Mother of joshua&jacob 4/26/1997
&Samantha&savannah3/30/2000

Hi
I am the mother of 2 sets of identicals- we got a permanet marker
(black) and just wrote there intials of the bottom of their feet ,
because the middle intials are all differant even though there first are
the same for the boys and also the girls, at bath time then just checked
it to make sure it was still clear- as they got older we just learned
differant expressions -etc. Good luck to your family-cyndi
Mother of joshua&jacob 4/26/1997
&Samantha&savannah3/30/2000

Ok, I'm goign to say something shocking here, but please know ahead of time
I'm not trying to be funny, insensitive, hurtful, or dumb. I'm serious. My
question is, as a father who never had this problem (I have b/g twinkies),
why does it matter to the parents of newborn ID twins if you get them mixed
up? I mean, at some point, you'll be able to tell them apart, and at that
point, if you refer to Baby A as Joe and Baby B as Bob, those names will
stick with the same kid from then on.

Please don't flame me; I'm asking an honest question about why it even
matters.

Also, please don't give examples of if one kids has a health issue the
doctors want to track, etc. My question is assuming healthy kids, and none
of those kinds of parameters were present in the original post anyway.


"Rob & Terri Lenihan" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I'm new to the newsgroup, as my wife and I just had a set of twins on
Dec 22nd, both girls, Aimee Nicole (6 lb, 11 oz), and Kylie Melissa (6
lb 15 oz). We also have a 3 year old son, Colton Joseph (he was born 9
lb 13 oz)
Anyways, we noticed that we need to take the bracelets off soon, and we
are worried that we will mix the children up. They are not officially
identical, as we haven't received the results of the the DNA test , but
we can't tell them apart. Has anyone else had this problem, and if so,
what did you do to ensure there were no mixups?

Rob Lenihan

Ok, I'm goign to say something shocking here, but please know ahead of time
I'm not trying to be funny, insensitive, hurtful, or dumb. I'm serious. My
question is, as a father who never had this problem (I have b/g twinkies),
why does it matter to the parents of newborn ID twins if you get them mixed
up? I mean, at some point, you'll be able to tell them apart, and at that
point, if you refer to Baby A as Joe and Baby B as Bob, those names will
stick with the same kid from then on.

Please don't flame me; I'm asking an honest question about why it even
matters.

Also, please don't give examples of if one kids has a health issue the
doctors want to track, etc. My question is assuming healthy kids, and none
of those kinds of parameters were present in the original post anyway.


"Rob & Terri Lenihan" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I'm new to the newsgroup, as my wife and I just had a set of twins on
Dec 22nd, both girls, Aimee Nicole (6 lb, 11 oz), and Kylie Melissa (6
lb 15 oz). We also have a 3 year old son, Colton Joseph (he was born 9
lb 13 oz)
Anyways, we noticed that we need to take the bracelets off soon, and we
are worried that we will mix the children up. They are not officially
identical, as we haven't received the results of the the DNA test , but
we can't tell them apart. Has anyone else had this problem, and if so,
what did you do to ensure there were no mixups?

Rob Lenihan

"middletree" wrote in message
...
Ok, I'm goign to say something shocking here, but please know ahead of
time
I'm not trying to be funny, insensitive, hurtful, or dumb. I'm serious.
My
question is, as a father who never had this problem (I have b/g twinkies),
why does it matter to the parents of newborn ID twins if you get them
mixed
up? I mean, at some point, you'll be able to tell them apart, and at that
point, if you refer to Baby A as Joe and Baby B as Bob, those names will
stick with the same kid from then on.

Please don't flame me; I'm asking an honest question about why it even
matters.

Also, please don't give examples of if one kids has a health issue the
doctors want to track, etc. My question is assuming healthy kids, and none
of those kinds of parameters were present in the original post anyway.


hmmm....what about who is oldest? That matters to some folk. Also, in
matters like vaccinations, if eg. one had a vaccination and the other had a
cold and had to get it a couple of weeks later, how would you tell which one
had it already? Even things like weight and growth charts (which don't
matter so much if they are both healthy and obviously thriving)
Personally, I treated our children as individuals from the moment they were
born. This is how I like to be treated myself...as a person in my own
right, not as one of a group in which I could be interchanged with the other
group members with no one realising that I had different feelings and needs.

Alison
Wife of James
Mother of Kirsty (17) John (15) Brodie (7) Heather (7) ID girls

"middletree" wrote in message
...
Ok, I'm goign to say something shocking here, but please know ahead of
time
I'm not trying to be funny, insensitive, hurtful, or dumb. I'm serious.
My
question is, as a father who never had this problem (I have b/g twinkies),
why does it matter to the parents of newborn ID twins if you get them
mixed
up? I mean, at some point, you'll be able to tell them apart, and at that
point, if you refer to Baby A as Joe and Baby B as Bob, those names will
stick with the same kid from then on.

Please don't flame me; I'm asking an honest question about why it even
matters.

Also, please don't give examples of if one kids has a health issue the
doctors want to track, etc. My question is assuming healthy kids, and none
of those kinds of parameters were present in the original post anyway.


hmmm....what about who is oldest? That matters to some folk. Also, in
matters like vaccinations, if eg. one had a vaccination and the other had a
cold and had to get it a couple of weeks later, how would you tell which one
had it already? Even things like weight and growth charts (which don't
matter so much if they are both healthy and obviously thriving)
Personally, I treated our children as individuals from the moment they were
born. This is how I like to be treated myself...as a person in my own
right, not as one of a group in which I could be interchanged with the other
group members with no one realising that I had different feelings and needs.

Alison
Wife of James
Mother of Kirsty (17) John (15) Brodie (7) Heather (7) ID girls

middletree wrote:

Ok, I'm goign to say something shocking here, but please know ahead of time
I'm not trying to be funny, insensitive, hurtful, or dumb. I'm serious. My
question is, as a father who never had this problem (I have b/g twinkies),
why does it matter to the parents of newborn ID twins if you get them mixed
up? I mean, at some point, you'll be able to tell them apart, and at that
point, if you refer to Baby A as Joe and Baby B as Bob, those names will
stick with the same kid from then on.

Please don't flame me; I'm asking an honest question about why it even
matters.

Also, please don't give examples of if one kids has a health issue the
doctors want to track, etc. My question is assuming healthy kids, and none
of those kinds of parameters were present in the original post anyway.


Its the not knowing which is which that would bug me. For example,
someone comes over to visit, they ask which child is which, and you can'
t answer that.. it would be a little frustrating and embarrassing.
Also, Thanks for all the advise from everyone, we decided to paint the
big toenail, that seems the easiest.

Rob Lenihan