Sofía Rodríguez and Leonardo Costa pose with their children Lorenzo and Valentín and with staff from the National Registry of People.RENAPER
After days of doubting, Sofía Rodríguez downloaded on Twitter: “Tomorrow I have to go to the police so they can fingerprint my twins and tell me which is which,” she wrote on March 2. “I won the Mother of the Year award.” Almost two weeks earlier, on February 16, she had left the hospital with her twins, Lorenzo and Valentín, who were celebrating their arrival at their new home with nocturnal vomiting. Chaos gained new parents. Without the identification bands, which were removed from them when they left the hospital naked after a bath, it was impossible to recognize their babies.
The story of this family from Córdoba, central Argentina, has been followed by thousands of people in recent weeks. This Wednesday, the Minister of the Interior brought the good news. The National Register of Persons (Renaper) managed to differentiate them, preventing parents from following the almost unanimous advice of social networks: “When they’re so small, can’t they rename them and…reset them?”
The twins Lorenzo and Valentin Costa.RENAPER
“Everyone has their birth certificate, their national ID, their medical history … basically their identity,” Rodríguez responded to that possibility, but the conspiracy became complicated when the police consultation couldn’t distinguish them from their fingerprints because they were still who they were not in the system. Lorenzo and Valentin’s meal times, the brands of their vaccines and the fluctuations in the weight of both were the topic of conversation on Twitter for the past two weeks, until the National Register of Persons visited their parents this Wednesday and managed to distinguish them using their biometric data. registered on the day of his birth, January 6th.
In a video released by Sofía Rodríguez this Wednesday, Renaper authorities confirmed the babies’ identities, while she and partner Leonardo Costa placed a bet on which was which. His intuition was correct and after a month in the unknown, Lorenzo and Valentin were identified. “We’re not such bad parents after all!” Rodríguez wrote, leaving Twitter to rest.
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