To think I'm not being U to paint baby's toenail?

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Yes, toenail! I have twin identical DDs. I am struggling. It's okay if they're dressed, as I do different colours, but when they are in just a nappy, etc. It's too hard! It isn't so bad, is it?

Those Ickle feet!! So cute X
I'm broody looking at them!

You can't paint toenails OP, the little toes are the best bits of babies! Just permanent marker a big 1 and 2 on their backs ( NOT the bellies, 2nd best bits) and go over it every now and again when it fades.

As a maternity nurse I've looked after many twins but only one set of identical and I had serious trouble telling them apart

Even dad got it wrong a few times 😱 Which made me feel better

I rem saying to mum how do you know who is who and she said she just knew 😂

We Did dress them differently but I would also study them intensely and try to guess who was who

Nail polish is the way to go and I would do whole foot incase wore away

Some parents have brackets like christening ones with their names on them

Agree a tattoo Obv small and hidden would be easier

Please stop posting those adorable feet my ovaries are doing somersaults!

Quick! Paint the little toe nail!

My DTs are 12 and I still get them mixed up if I don't look closely.

Mind you, they answer to each other's names now and once one actually called himself by his brothers name - he doesn't even know who he is!

I just call them "you boy, whoever you are" or tell them I'm right if they say I'm wrong, because I'm their mother and they are who I say they are!

Or I tell them they have to swap and give the other a chance to be them.

Do it!! I have non identical twins who are 5 months and soooooo similar!!! The first couple of weeks with the nightfeedings were the worst I had no idea who I was feeding

I completely understand doing this, not permanent and no harm.

I read online that in some countries the parents tattoo a freckle onto the toe of their first born twin to be able to identify them also if one twin is very poorly and needs life saving medication to make sure they don't give it to the wrong twin incase it has a bad effect to the other twin or incase missing a dose could be fatal for the poorly baby, which is more understandable!

Blimey, I'd never thought about any of this before this thread. It's been a real eye opener

It makes perfect sense to use the nail varnish.

I'd also never considered how many twins must've started life with their other twin's name and maybe gone back and forth.

I suppose medically, that could be a real issue

But what's the point if nail varnish works just as well?

What proportion of identical twins (or even non-identical if same sex, because babies look pretty similar) do you think are THE WRONG ONE?

They think they are the elder, but the parents got them mixed up in the first few weeks and they are actually the younger.

Do they weigh the same? That might be a way of telling them apart for the purpose of choosing which one to put the nail varnish on!

Or, just always put one on the left and the other on the right, like ant and dec.

Hang on, to the poster seriously suggesting a tattoo - who would do it?

You can't exactly just take your baby down to the local tattoo shop. And most people don't have a spare tattoo gun lying around at home. DIY with a kitchen knife seems inadvisable.

Heat up a kids stamp and just brand one of them

Good luck OP.

Twins in DS's class (now yr8) used to be identified in pre-school years as one used to wear a bracelet on her left wrist. The other did not. It worked very well for several years.

Could you do something similar?

Yep we did this

OMG - my DP is an identical twin! Perhaps I've been living with her DSis all these years!

You could always draw glasses/moustache on one of them with a Sharpie?
I like the personalised plain tiny bangle idea too. But not quite as much as the glasses.
What amazing feet your darling DDs have btw.

My girls weren't identical and I still did the nail polish. Also a stack of bibs with names embroidered and nappies written on with sharpie. I read a book about swapped twins and was a tad paranoid

Wow, how awkward.

Especially with that pesky 'oh mothers just know' meme to make people more guilty!

FEETSES!! Want to touch them & nibble them!
The nail varnish might wear off, but it's unlikely it would completely wear off both of them at the same time.
I've seen identical twin babies with different earrings. That made sense, too.
Fake tan on one twin's bum? But then you might confuse her with Donald Trump. Though, of course, what comes out of his mouth is way more noxious than what comes out of a baby's bum.

I disagree with anyone saying babies bellies are second best to feet, I can't be the only one that thinks their bums are? Or it might just be my sons bum and I'm weird but it's adorable

Please do something to tell them apart. I had absolutely identical twin girls in my class about five years ago (parents refused to have them split in to separate classes), and mum would do their hair the same every day, always the same uniform, same earrings, same shoes, same everything. I begged her (as did the teacher the year before me, and the year before that) to put them in different earrings or something, but she refused, then got angry at us when we couldn't tell the difference between them. Even the girls themselves would get frustrated at it, and in the end they started changing their hair every morning so one had a piggytail and the other had a plait, but they had to change it back before the end of day bell as their mother would yell if their hair was changed and they didn't look identical. She even got angry at them if one took their jumper off and the other didn't. They'd be teens now, and I hope they've told their mother to pull her head in and stop treating them as clones.