my ID twins look different

mars724

so after delivering my doctor sent out the placenta for a DNA test of some sort and they called yesterday to tell my my girls are identical. There was one placenta, but the doc said it maybe looked like it had been two at one time that were fused together, but then the test came back that they're ID.

So, could they be wrong? lol. or can they actually look different, like one has a fuller face than the other, even though their weights were exactly the same at their last check up?

anyone else have this happen? 

Darcie Elicia

Everyone with ID twins think they look different.    I'm sure they are correct.  Di/di twins have a 1 in 9 chance of being ID.

GeauxTigers82

Well, I think the real question is does anyone else think they look different? I don't think my girls look remotely the same (similar, but not enough to confuse them), however, no one else can tell them apart (aside from DH and my mom and dad). My 4 1/2 year old DD can't even tell them apart.

For the first 5-6 months, they looked really different. One had longer hair in the front and that was enough to make them look different. Everyone said they looked the same with a hat or headband though. When I look back at pictures from those days, I still think they look totally different. We thought they were fraternal, until we did the test at 12 months. The only reason we did is because they started looking more and more alike the older they got. Plus, as I said, apparently, no one could tell the apart.

I bet they will start to look more alike when their hair grows in, etc. That's what happened with mine. They started getting the same hair color, etc.

Mine are di/di.

festivus

mars724:

So, could they be wrong? lol. or can they actually look different, like one has a fuller face than the other, even though their weights were exactly the same at their last check up?

anyone else have this happen? 

This is totally my boys. G was head down forever, so I think maybe it compacted things a little, as his face is MUCH wider. Honestly, I was the only one who really thought they might be ID. My sisters felt very strongly that one looked like DH and one looked like me, and the rest of the family was also in the frat camp.

mapjet

Mine look completely different to me, I don't see how people think they look the same and I secretly get annoyed sometimes because my family can't tell them apart. But everyone but me thinks they look the same, so I guess it really just is that us moms see them for their own self and not a mirror image of their twin. 

 

GeauxTigers82

mapjet:

Mine look completely different to me, I don't see how people think they look the same and I secretly get annoyed sometimes because my family can't tell them apart. But everyone but me thinks they look the same, so I guess it really just is that us moms see them for their own self and not a mirror image of their twin. 

 

I totally get annoyed because family members that I think should be able to tell them apart, can't. I feel like I have the most unidentical, identical twins ever. I look at other ID's and think, wow, they look so much more alike than mine do!

There is a lady at DD1's swimming lessons that has ID girls 2 months younger than my girls. They look so much alike and I find myself wanting to ask her how she tells them apart! Of course, I know better because the answer will probably be similar to mine, which is..."IDK, I just don't think they look alike!"

MuseumMaven

Yup - mine don't look the same at all to me.  One has always been a bit lighter, and their heads are shaped differently due to how they were positioned in me.  Other people say they look exactly the same, but I can tell them apart.

I did mix them up once.  I blame sleep deprivation.

royalcrown1

I was shocked to find out how many differences there can be between ID twins.  Mine are ID (we know because they had TTTS) and one has a longer face, one has curlier hair, one is allergic to a medicine that they other one is not, and one has a heart defect that the other does not.  So at this point, I am just waiting for more differences to come along.  I do have to say that as they get older, they are actually starting to look more alike - I would have thought they would start looking more different.

erinruns

My girls are identical and look totally different.  Everyone can tell they're identical, but no one has ever mixed them up.

sarahvarno

I have identical boys and they look nothing alike. The doctor told me this could happen that identical only meant how they are formed and their DNA they could look different. When i went back for my 6 week check up I even asked the doctor who insisted I only had 1 placenta and the DNA test says they are identical. I have one that has a long face and one that has a rounder face.

TeacherTiff

Mine looked totally different until about a month ago. Now the older they get the more alike they look. Sometimes even I have to look for a birthmark! 

ninjabridemom

I can tell them apart.  But they looked different at discharge and until Gabe started gaining more weight.  Now they look more alike at almost 9lbs each.

Jen0204

festivus:

mars724:

So, could they be wrong? lol. or can they actually look different, like one has a fuller face than the other, even though their weights were exactly the same at their last check up?

anyone else have this happen? 

This is totally my boys. G was head down forever, so I think maybe it compacted things a little, as his face is MUCH wider. Honestly, I was the only one who really thought they might be ID. My sisters felt very strongly that one looked like DH and one looked like me, and the rest of the family was also in the frat camp.

See, now I think the width of their faces looks really similar.  They look a tiny bit different to me, but not much at all.  On the other hand, I think DD1 has a much wider face then DD2, and most people disagree with me   When mine are side by side I think they look completely different, yet when H put them in the car the other day and I looked in the rear view mirror I guessed wrong when he asked who was behind me. 

cleeksock

I hope you see this...my OB called a few days after I delivered and said the lab called and that my twins were monochorionic, so "definitely identical".  I thought that was impossible because, since I was Rh-, I knew their blood types, and they were different.  My OB was confused and said she would look into it.

She called me a week later and said that the lab person had made a mistake and was "so embarassed".  My placentas had fused, but my boys are obviously not identical since they have different blood types.