I don’t have any advice, but congratulations! 
Sautee one in butter and serve with hollandaise and steamed asparagus. The other one, poach in strawberry compote and serve with a crepe and powdered sugar. Shiraz with the entree and moscato with dessert.
Babies put their feet in their mouths a lot, I don’t think that nail polish is a good thing for a baby to eat. An Identifying mark would be good, but something like a certified nontoxic marker dot would be better than nail polish or, heaven forbid, a tattoo. I don’t really think ear-piercing babies is ethical, but you could go that route if you’re worried about the toxicity of body dots. At some point they’ll both be naked together (during bathtime and such) and color-coding clothing isn’t an effective strategy for that.
This assumes they’re identical, of course!
And congratulationsx2
I used to be married to an identical twin, you’ll be able to tell them apart.
My mother had 13 kids (which means I have 12 siblings) including 3 sets of twins.
I am a twin, have a set of twin brothers, and a set of twin sisters.
My mothers last 2 births-----less then 2 years apart------were back-to-back twins.
That means she had 9 children under the age of 8, and still 4 more older than that.
Put another way, she had 4 kids in diapers (pre-Pampers, cotton diapers) and still 9 older than that.
Same mother and father.
ETA
I’ve known many pairs of identical twins in my life and the only people who couldn’t tell them apart were people who had very occasional or incidental contact.
Anyone who has regular contact with the twins will instantly be able to tell them apart. Even minor personality differences, body language and even minor physical differences will be plainly evident to someone who is in regular contact with them.
For the parents it will be easy.
Yow. Dinner time must have been fun.
Wow. But, presumably, the older kids were able to be helpful? I hope.
I love asparagus, but we won’t be in asparagus season yet. Shiraz sounds good.
I like the clothing idea. We’re fairly likely to manage that.
My older kids are currently on top of the table. I think someone should do something about that. Definitely.
Every big family I’ve seen presses the oldest kids into babysitting/ cat herding/ enforcer roles.
Mine was no different. Is it fair? Probably not. But it’s the only way to make it work.
Strangely enough, while I am a twin, neither me or my siblings had any twins. So as far as advice? I got nuthin’.
Hmm…my mother had identical twin brothers. Mother had two sets of twins. My sister who is a twin married a twin, and she had a set of twins.
StG
There are no other sets of twins anywhere in the family. We checked.
I don’t think that kids having to work to contribute to the family is a bad thing. I’m looking forward to mine being old enough to do useful chores.
Identical twins are, AFAIK, a random event. It’s fraternal twins that can run in families, because that’s really the tendency to ovulate more than on egg at a time.
Friends of mine who have infant twins swear by their pair of Itzbeens, which let you know how long it’s been since you last fed/changed/oneotherthing each kid.
I only had the one, but I swore by my Itzbeen. We got it when my son was like 2 weeks old, and my brain was so tired that I couldn’t make sense of the sticky notes I was using to try to keep track of when he ate. (I wasn’t, at that point, trying to track when he ate, just figure out the most likely reason for the crying - oh, it’s been 3 hours since he ate? Well, that’s probably it, then.) The Itzbeen was a lifesaver for us. It’s also handy for handing off baby from one caregiver to another - it goes with the baby, and the new caregiver can see that the baby ate about an hour ago, was changed 45 minutes ago, and has been awake for 2 hours. SO useful!
And then, when we outgrew the need for it, it was a great toy. Buttons! Lights! Whee!
Looking into it. Someone else recommended complicated baby-controlled mobiles of some kind, which sound good.
Urgh, I wish I didn’t both sick and hypoglycemic at the same time. Babies! We need to eat!
I have identical twin nieces, and the personality differences come through clearly in pictures too - people specifically say that one of them looks very much like me, and the other one doesn’t as much. I see them maybe once a year and can tell them apart.
As for advice, my brother only said “twins are hell. They’re great! but they’re hell”. I’ve got nothing else, but congrats!
I was just going to come in and say you should give them both the exact same name - and insist to everyone that you only have one child. Think of the fun you would have!
My brother has twins. Apparently some stores give discounts when buying for twins. Babies R Us, etc. Ask! You need twice as much stuff, get all the breaks you can.
Twins really resemble each other the most between the newborn to six-month-old phase. All babies kind of look the same during that period, but twins can be tricky. Even for parents.
We have some baby pictures where I can’t differentiate which one is me. There’s a picture of my sister and me from back in the day–a close-up that shows our faces very well. We’re probably three-going-on-four years old. My sister and I STILL argue about who’s who. And we are fraternal twins! So if you can remember, whenever you take pics, try to identify who’s who and mark it on the picture (on the back is how my parents did it, but that was before digital cameras of course). That way there won’t be future arguments over who gets to be the cuter baby in the picture
Differences in height and weight will help with identification. Birthmarks will also come in handy and will probably eliminate the need to do the whole non-toxic marker thing. You’ll just have to remember which kid has the mole in the middle of his forehead.
Get as many volunteers as you can according to the neighbor who had twins a few years ago. She had a rotating list that included her mom, her sister and a local grandmother who just liked to cuddle babies a few times a week.
Congratulations!
Now I don’t mean to rain on your parade and I don;t know your age, but twins are a high risk pregnancy. Over 35 is high risk. Having twins over 35 is high risk. Get a good doctor to explain it to you. Plan on extended leave from work - none of this I worked over tme then went to hosiptial and finished up emails between the births bs.
Be really clear on what is considered safe times and danger signals in terms of baby stress. plan ahead that you probably want a c-section when this sequence of event happen. All it took was about 20 minutes outside the 30 minute safegy window for twin B to be born after twin A. Hypoxic damage at birth, in our case leading to an eventual dianosis of autism, is not something you want.
When those doctors start saying high risk and minimimizing risk, even if it means staying in the hospital for a month. I would listen to those voices and do what they say. IANAD, but I do have a twin that had a rough birth and is on the spectrum.
What else? Get everything ready far in advnace. Line up friends and family that will come over and take shifts for both the bambinas as well as the older ones. Have sleep overs for the older ones. Definately prep the bigger ones and be emphathatic when they get jealous.
one big trick I learned is to the let the older siblings introduce the twins, whiich one is older, which one is cranky, which one peed on Mom, etc. Let the older sibs take bragging rights. Everyone wants to hold the babies and it’s a way to deflect the jealousy,
anyhoo, best of luck. Multiples websites or work alias’ are great.