When I decided to start writing about twins I thought I would be interested in discussing current parenting issues like making friends or learning to read. But no, I want to talk about breastfeeding and labor and diapers and staying home for 18 months. So I guess you can expect a slight regression for the first little bit of this series.

Today I want to talk about names. I recently discovered NYC Taught Me written by another mother of twins, Sharon (her blog isn't about twins either, it's about New York City - in case the name didn't give it away). She has identical twins and came up with a clever way for to people to tell them apart.

We don't have that problem. Most often I don't think Henry and Wyatt even look like siblings. But, her post did remind me of a conversation I had in October with a father of twins I met at pumpkin carving party. We were swapping labor and delivery stories and he told me that there was some confusion about which baby was which after his wife's delivery.

You see, twins are labeled as Baby A and Baby B in the womb ‘cause I guess doctors need a way to keep track of each baby. Well, in this instance, the doctor and nurses thought Baby B may have been born first rather than Baby A. In the father’s opinion, the hospital staff was overly concerned about the switch up. What did it matter as long as each baby was healthy? It’s not like he and his wife cared which baby was given which name!

What! They didn't care?! This shocked me (although I played it cool). I knew which of my babies was which the day we found out they were both boys. Henry was Baby A and Wyatt was Baby B. Always. And although I continued to refer to them as Baby A and Baby B when talking about them, I sometimes called them by name when talking to them. I would have been hella pissed off if the doctor had been even the slightest bit unsure about the order of their arrival.

Do other parents of twins assign names in the womb? Or do they wait to decide until the actual delivery? Of course, I prefer my approach but I realize that many parents of singletons wait until the baby is born to decide among a variety of names. What was your approach to naming your babies (or baby)?