'We looked at each other and realised we didn't know which twin we were holding'

"Regardless of what potentially could have happened, they are happy with who they are now.”

For any parent who is lucky enough to have identical twins, you can almost guarantee they’ve heard the same question: ‘How can you tell them apart?’.

For one family, that question might be relevant.

American mum Nicole Giamundo revealed on TikTok that she and her husband weren’t sure which of their twin daughters they’d grabbed from the hospital when they were born 10 years ago.

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It means they may have accidentally switched their twins in 2014.

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Nora and Adalynn were born via emergency C-section. Picture: Today

Parents "couldn't remember" which bassinet they'd picked each baby up from

Today reports Nicole, from Colorado, gave birth to Adalynn and Nora via emergency C-section, who were then placed in separate bassinets.

Whenever her or her partner Jordon picked one of the girls up, they’d make sure to put them back in the same bassinet.

However, at one stage both parents were holding one of the girls and couldn’t remember which bassinet they’d picked them up from.

The situation was complicated by the fact Nicole and Jordon had only recently started dating when they became pregnant, and were in a long-distance relationship.

Today reports when the couple found out they were having twins, they were living on opposite sides of America.

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Nicole and Jordon are still not 100 per cent sure if their twin girls were mixed up at the hospital. Picture: Today

"Thank God. I didn't want to be named Addie"

They’d moved in together by the time Nicole gave birth, but they were still left holding their twin girls wondering if they’d potentially switched their identities for the rest of their lives.

The couple unswaddled the girls and checked their hospital bracelets before putting them in their respective bassinets, but the seed of doubt has stayed with them for the past decade.

That tale threatened to become awkward for Nicole when one of her daughters overheard her recording the now-viral TikTok.

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“We’d never really said anything about mixing them up or anything like that to them,” Nicole told Today.

When Nicole was confronted by Nora, she switched her camera back on to capture the conversations.

“We were tired and picked you guys up and didn’t remember which bassinet we got you out of,” Nicole told her daughter.

“So you may very well have been Adalynn at one point and now you’re Nora.”

“Thank God,” Nora responded. “I didn’t want to be named Addie.”

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The girls certainly still look alike, but their interests and talents are completely different. Picture: Today

"They love who they are"

Nicole also recorded the moment she told her other daughter about the potential mix-up, who had a very similar reaction.

“I don’t like that, I don’t want my name to be Nora,” she said.

Today reports the girls are still very hard to tell apart, but their interests couldn’t be further apart.

Adalynn is an “adventurous and creative artist”, while Nora drives a Bandolero race car for the family’s racing team.

They also gravitate towards the colours their parents dressed them in as babies to tell them apart: Adalynn likes purple, and Nora likes pink.

Nicole told Today she was “touched” by her girls’ response to the potential mix-up.

“They love who they are and they don’t wish to be anybody else,” she said.

“It made me feel really good that regardless of what potentially could have happened, they are happy with who they are now.”

Originally published as 'We looked at each other and realised we didn't know which twin we were holding'