The two fathers of the twins that the young woman gave birth to! The incident happened in Brazil

• Last Updated : Sep 08, 2022, 6:11 PM IST

The birth of a 19-year-old woman from Brazil has stunned the medical profession. The feature is that the twins born by the woman have two fathers. Although this is rare and quite rare, the doctor who treated the young woman says it is not impossible. The woman gave birth to twins, but the DNA test revealed that the fathers of the two children were two men. But at first the young woman was not ready to give a definite answer in this regard. She said she never thought anything like this would be possible. Doctors describe this occurrence as one in a million.

The woman is a native of Brazil. Such an incident occurred because she had sex with two men on the same day. Nine months later, she gave birth to twins. When the twins started growing up, the young woman became suspicious regarding their paternity. She then decided to have the children’s DNA tested. The DNA of the man believed to be the child’s father was collected. But only one child’s DNA matched the sample. “I was told that I had sex with another man and he was also summoned for DNA test. It was positive. I was amazed at the results. I had no idea this would happen, kids are so similar. She said in a conversation with a local media that she was not suspicious at first.

Although this phenomenon is rare, it is not unheard of. It occurs when a second egg is released during the menstrual cycle and the egg is fertilized with another person’s sperm during different sexual intercourse. The scientific term for this is heteroparental superfecundation.

“This can happen when two eggs from the same mother are fertilized by different men. The babies share the mother’s genetic material, but they grow in different placentas”- doctor Tulio Jorge Franco, who treated the young woman, told the local news media, the doctor also mentioned the extreme rarity of the case. He said that there are only 20 cases of heteroparental superfecundation in the world.

Published by:Anuraj GR

First published:Sep 08, 2022, 6:11 PM IST

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