May 21, 2010 Identical Twins?
A&J March 2010
We’ve been getting a TON of comments lately that the girls are looking more and more alike. I’m likely to agree, but also quick to point out that they are not identical twins! Or at least that is what the doctors told us during my pregnancy. There were two separate uterine sacs and two umbilical cords. They each had their own setup. Identical twins usually share one sac, one umbilical cord. It is not within the realm of impossibility for identicals to separate like this in the womb, it is just far less likely. I guess we could have testing done to determine whether they are identical or fraternal, but really, who cares? Spend any amount of time with the girls and you will quickly be able to tell them apart. If you can’t then you are just not paying attention. Sure, there are times when I have to take a second glance and make sure I know who is who. This happens mostly during bath time or more now in the summer since they run around in only a diaper sometimes.
Anyhoo. The reason people had an easy time telling them apart for the first year or so was due to the fact that Jilly had to take some medication that made her puff up. Exhibit A:
A&J six months
OMG. HOW CUTE IS THIS PHOTO. You can see Jillian on the right with the mega CHEEKS. That you just want to SQUEEZE!!! Those cheeks are due, in part, to a medicine that helped reduce a birthmark on her nose that had the potential to screw up her nose growth which would only be repairable in the future with plastic surgery. It was a hard decision to put her on that medicine for 8 months, but here we are a year later and you can barely tell she ever had that birthmark and the medicine did it’s job to keep her nose adorable and perfect. It also helped everyone tell them apart quite easily, until recently. Ever since she went off the meds last August she’s been slowly shrinking down in size. Then the girls became mobile in December and by now the chub has completely melted away from both (*sniff*).
So I’m excited to see where this goes. How will they grow in similar or different ways? Will they continue to look the same or will they develop some more unique appearance traits? For now, they have the same color hair at a similar length, as well as same height and weight. Amanda has hazel eyes and Jilly’s are brown. They have different speaking voices, but at times when they squeal at each other it is in the same pitch and volume. They have different cries, but I am probably the only one who really notices the difference there. Their little laughs are quite similar and very contagious.
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