If you have identicals, curious

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Just wondered if you did anything to tell them a part when babies? I knew someone who dressed one twin all the time in blue/green/pink and the other in yellow/red/white etc. So set colours etc. Makes looking back at their childhood really easy to spot which one is which. I also wanted to know how long it took you to tell them apart? And also, if you ever worried that at some point you got confused and have been accidentally raising elizabeth as Isabella and Isabella as Elizabeth lol. I dont have multiples. Just something i was curious over so thought i would ask.

I painted one nail on one of my girls but within days we were confident in telling them apart regardless. One twin does have a birthmark on their torso though so I could always take their tops off if I got stuck!

This is one thing I'm paranoid about I said to my partner I'll be the worst twin mum (I already have a son and he's doing really well so I know I'm not a bad mum lol) cause I'll not be able to tell them apart! (Mine are MCDA) although only 13 weeks at the moment!

I’m hoping I’ll remember who is wearing what..... (expecting identical twin boys later this year). Initially they are likely to be slightly different sizes, so I’m hoping that makes it obvious to start with....

I worried so much about this whilst I was pregnant but I have never had an issue with telling them apart.
When they were born there was nearly 1lb difference between them so easy to tell who was who and by the time my twin 1 caught up in weight we just knew their features and also personalities.
Family and friends struggle to tell the difference, but I question as to whether they are actually identical (they are lol) as to me they are different.
We don't tend to dress them in the same outfits either so at least friends and family can just remember what they are wearing as to who is who.

We could tell them apart from birth (one was 4.5lb and the other 6lb, so quite a difference). We did the nail polish on the toenail thing for a little while to make sure we wouldn't get them mixed up, but never needed to rely on it, so we stopped. It's sometimes harder to tell them apart in photos, but I don't like the idea of only dressing them in one colour or always putting the same one on the left. We store all our photos in an online album and we add comments to record which way round they were

Never found it hard at the time as they look so different (to me and DH anyway!) but sometimes in older pics I have to look closely to tell who is who.

Have you considered DNA testing to find out, @JackSpud? We did it when our DCDA twins were a similar age - just a cheek swab that we sent off in the post.

Size difference when they were born made it obvious. Also really I think as mum you just know every tiny line on their face, little differences in the shapes of their eyes, hairline, all that stuff. ID twins are never truly like clones, they are always different in small ways.
However it is difficult from a distance so we rarely dress them identically, i don't get why people do if I'm honest and in old pictures I have to look really closely and sometimes I'm not confident at all lol! Dont know how that's going to go down when they're older but i'll have to just guess confidently and never show uncertainty

We do dress ours in set colours for nursery to make it easier for the nursery staff! Will be using set colour hair accessories when they go to school for the teachers, although they're going into separate classes.

We had to give one medication so painted his toe nail blue so it was easy to tell. When I look back on photos it is often hard to tell which is which unless I remember one having or wearing something in particular.

To begin with, the older one has a small birthmark on his hip which made it impossible to really mix them up, and as they grow it becomes impossible to mix them up. You start to notice the tiny physical differences, the individual mannerisms. They do have 'colours' though: Dts1 gets blue, while Dts2 gets green. But that's the same for my other kids as well. We all have colours.

I have identical twin boys now two years old they were very difficult to tell apart when younger with only slight differences but definitely gets easier as they get older and develop personalities