Concerned Mother Reaches Out to Police Due to Identical Twins' Indistinguishability
They say a mother can always tell her children apart, but this is not the case for Sofi Rodriguez. The mother admitted that she had to go to the police to tell the difference between her twins, who were born 45 days ago.
“I have to go get their fingerprints and tell them which one is which,” she tweeted. “I won the mother of the year award,” added the 24-year-old mother.
Sofi has tweeted several photos of the little ones and says they look different in the pictures “because they come from a different angle or get different light,” but insists they are “the same in real life,” and she needs to record it “to keep track so we can follow their medical background.”
The confusion began when one of the babies no longer had an ID band. The mother said that one night she noticed that the strap was squeezing one of the twins’ legs, so she decided to take it off.
“One night, about 10 days ago, we realized the strap was too small for him, it was squeezing his leg, so we cut it off. I took it off, thinking that the next day I would know which was which, but no,” said the mother of Valentin and Lorenzo.
The mother asked the police for help and fingerprinted the little ones, but since they were not in the system, this also failed. “We have taken their fingerprints, but they are not in the system. We still don’t know who is who,” said the young woman.
For now, parents cannot tell their children apart because they went to vaccinate them, and it appears that they “administered the vaccine twice to the same child.”
“They do all the tests, but they don’t give him a name because we don’t know which is which,” she said.
The woman’s Twitter post caused a huge response, garnering tens of thousands of tweets and thousands of comments. Some responded with a lot of humor, suggesting that because they were so small, the woman should rename them again, “as if to reset them.”
Sofi also received advice from other parents of twins to prevent the same thing from happening in the future. “I painted one of his toenails so you can tell them apart,” suggested one mom.
“From the moment they were born, I named them according to their weight and left them with their identification bracelets from the clinic until I replaced them with silver ones engraved with their names. It worked perfectly for me,” said another.
