A mother of twin girls has candidly admitted that she may have confused her identical daughters at the hospital shortly after their birth.
Nicole Giamundo, who welcomed her twin daughters Adalynn and Nora, now 10, in 2014, opened up about her lingering doubts about the young girls’ true identity in a now-viral TikTok video, confessing that neither she nor her husband to know if girls really should have the names they currently have.
“So, at the hospital they give you two bassinets. They have names,” she said in the clip.
‘You take one of one, you put it in that one; you pick one up again and put it back,’ she explained, before revealing that there came a point where she and her husband, in their sleep-deprived states, lost track of which baby was in which bassinet.
Nicole Giamundo admitted that her 10-year-old twins, Adalynn and Nora, could have been switched at birth
She went on to explain that she and her husband had been picking them up and putting them back in their respective labeled bassinets, when they suddenly lost track of who was who.
‘At one point, I had one, my husband had one. And we looked at each other and said, “Who do you have?”‘ he recalled.
‘Because at that time we were sleep deprived. It was a lot having two babies. That’s why we’re not entirely sure we haven’t mixed them up.
‘We will never know! They are identical! Oops!’ she concluded with a shrug.
In a later video, Nicole captured one of her daughters confronting her because she had eavesdropped on her mother and told her that she and her sister had been switched at birth.
Nicole admitted to her daughter that “we were tired, we picked up kids and we didn’t remember which bassinet we got you out of.”
—So it is very possible that at some point you were Adalynn and now you are Nora.
Nora took the news in stride, expressing relief that her name was not ‘Addy’ and emphasizing that she liked her own name.
Speaking of the moment of confusion PeopleNicole recalled, “We couldn’t remember which bassinet we got them from, and that was our way of keeping track of them.”
As she further described to the magazine: “I immediately panicked when I realized how unprepared we were to have twins.”
Many slid into the comments to assure Nicole that the confusion didn’t really matter in the grand scheme of the twins’ lives.
While the girls had hospital bracelets, the bracelets did not specify their names.
While both of her daughters are now aware that they were potentially switched right after birth, Nicole expressed her gratitude to People: “They were both glad they weren’t each other, which warmed my heart because that means they love who they are, and that that’s all”. the most important thing for me as a mother.
She added of her daughters’ identities to the magazine: “I want them to love who they are, I want them to not wish they were someone else.”
“So when I recorded those videos and their reactions were, while funny, they gave me some reassurance that they are who they were meant to be and that they love who they are, mixed or not.”
Thousands of people responded to the comments, with many putting the situation into perspective in the grand scheme of the twins’ lives.
“And the funny thing is, it doesn’t really even matter,” one noted.
‘I mean, does it technically matter?’ she repeated a second.
“They are who they are supposed to be,” a third chimed in, to which Nicole responded: “Yes they are!!!”
“At that point, not mixing them is *Reassigning*,” said a fourth.