The hunch that Sofía Rodríguez (25) and Leonardo Costa had about the identities of their monochorionic twins, Lorenzo and Valentín -who were born in Mendoza and turned 2 months old on March 6- did not
fail
.
The confirmation came through an audio: "Light blue shirt, Lorenzo, gray shirt, Valentino."
Renaper's fingerprinting process was the key to
officially identify
the babies, after they took their fingerprints again to check the match with the previous record.
Without further confusion, they celebrate that they will now be able to enter the clinical histories and keep an individual control, such as the evolution of the weight and the vaccination record, of each baby.
How are they going to avoid mixing them again?
Sofía is exhausted and collapsed, but she takes five minutes and answers the call from
Clarín
.
In the background, she can hear the sweet babbling of babies.
“At the moment they are quite the same, but now we can differentiate the little ones because Lorenzo has the
scars from the two vaccines
he received.
On the other hand, Valentin has none.
In addition, we always dress them in a different color.
Surely we will not confuse them again ”, he replies on WhatsApp.
Even, to avoid further confusion, they also applied the
bracelet system
.
Valentín wears a blue one and Lorenzo a light blue one.
“Tomorrow they are going to vaccinate both of them.
It seems that the first dose that Valentín is missing is no longer necessary, they recommended that we continue with the next vaccine to continue with the routine of the calendar, ”says Sofía.
First-time parents, the couple lives in San Francisco, province of Córdoba.
Both bloodlines
have a twin background
: she from her grandmother's side and he from her grandfather's side.
Sofía is a physical education teacher and Leonardo is dedicated to making claims reports for insurance companies.
"When I got pregnant we were living in Spain, but I preferred to return to Argentina to be close to my family," he confesses.
The scars from the two vaccinations that Lorenzo received are distinguishing marks for the parents of the twins.
In the face of uncertainty, she always maintained a positive attitude and was confident that she would soon receive an answer about the identities of Tino and Lolo, the nicknames of her children.
“We call one of them Beto, because 'you know, go,' and the other Nino has no name.
If not, left and right”, they joked in the interviews they gave to different newscasts.
As for advice to follow, they assure that they received thousands from Twitter Internet users who responded to their posts.
“Between theory and practice there is a big difference.
So we prefer to see what we can and it comes out.
At the moment, we are doing quite well, better than we thought.
I thought I was going to need a babysitter, but so far we're figuring it out together.
We are very companions ”, reflects Sofía, in dialogue with
Clarín
.
Valentín wears a blue one and Lorenzo a light blue one.
viral story
The story of the twins Lorenzo and Valentín went viral on social networks after Sofía told the anecdotal situation.
"Tomorrow I have to go to the police so they can take my twins' fingerprints and tell me
which one is which
, I won the mother of the year award."
The tweet generated more than
seven million interactions
and opened an extensive thread that brought to center stage the complications that parents face in order to distinguish their identical children.
They also recognized that there were many stories after the viralization of the tweet.
"There are 30-year-old people who continue to have doubts, we still have 29 years to clear up and we hope it will be resolved as soon as possible," they had fun.
How did the exposure you achieved through a tweet hit you?
“We enjoyed it a lot and we laughed at all the notes.
Only now we're a bit frazzled and tired with the twins and work.
That's why we don't go out anymore.
We had a lot of fun and the solutions they wanted to give us or the similar stories that other parents of twins told us on Twitter made us laugh,” Sofía replies to Clarín's
question
.
The identity dilemma
The uncertainty of this story began one night in early March.
“We realized that the bracelet that Valentín was wearing was already too small for him, it was squeezing his foot, so
we cut it off
.
I took it off thinking that the next day I was going to find out which was which, but we got up all morning to feed them and change them, we took off their clothes because they vomited, and the next day they were both in leather and we no longer knew which one it was. which one”, revealed Sofía about the beginning of what became a memorable anecdote.
Playing the classic “who's who” board game in which a player has to guess which character is hidden from questions about physical traits that he asks his opponent would not have been a good option either.
"In person they are the same", he had clarified days ago about the incredible physical resemblance of his children.
The twins were formally identified after the Renaper analysis.
"I found the message of the day that I cut the ribbon and I told my boyfriend (father of the twins) what color each one's bodysuit was. But that night they vomited and both ended up in leather," Sofia posted on the 4th of March.
Days later, he conveyed his dilemma in another tweet.
"The weight and measurements were what confused us the most. Lorenzo weighed 200 grams more than Valentín. Now, the one we thought was Valentín weighs 200 grams more. We don't know if Valentín gained 400 grams more than Lorenzo or if Lorenzo is Valentín" .
“It seems that
the same vaccinated was given twice
.
And they are doing all the studies and they don't name it because we don't know what it is," the mother of the twins continued.
And she also posted: “We took their fingerprints, but they are not in the system.
We still don't know who is who."
When transcending the particular case and the request for help from the parents, the Minister of the Interior, Wado de Pedro, entrusted the Renaper authorities (which is in charge of identifying and documenting all the inhabitants of Argentina) to put provision of technical resources to resolve the family dilemma, which was finally resolved by a team from the agency dependent on the Interior.
“To solve the dilemma, a specialized team from Renaper went to the family's house in San Francisco, Córdoba, where they took their biometric data, which was sent online to the Renaper Identification area.
Using dactyloscopic techniques and with the support of the necessary technology, they contrasted the images of the fingerprints with those in the Renaper database.
Also, the family was given a data certificate for each baby,"
Santiago Rodríguez, head of the Renaper, explained to
Clarín :
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