These Identical Triplets Are Hard To Tell Apart, So Their Mom Started Color Coding Them With Nail Polish
Imagine having twins, triplets, quadruplets, or — dear lord — quintuplets, and having to tell them apart. In the early days, before noticeable differences in personality traits emerge and nights are filled with 3 a.m. bottles and foggy brains, it can be hard for parents to tell their sets apart. To this day, some parents even wonder if they previously mixed their twins up.
So, when mom Crystal Hasselquist gave birth to her identical triplets James, Henrik, and Thomas, she asked their NICU nurse for suggestions for how to tell them apart. "It really started off with me being completely afraid of mixing them up and having to live with that the rest of my life — not knowing who was who. I mean, yikes, who wants that on their conscience?" Crystal told BuzzFeed. "One of the first suggestions was having them wear a bracelet. That idea for me wasn’t ideal because bracelets can be easily removed. So we kept searching for something to calm my fears."
Then, Crystal ran across a genius idea in a mommy group on Facebook: painting each child's big toe a different color. Recently, the triplets' aunt, AmyJo Hasselquist, shared a clip of the cute toe hack, and the video has amassed over 16.3 million views.
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