A 19-year-old teenager from Brazil has claimed that she has given birth to twins with different fathers after having sex with two men on the same day.
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Teenager gives birth to twins with different fathers after having sex with two men on the same day
The new mom from Minerios in Goias, Brazil, mentioned that she took a paternity test because she wanted to confirm who the father was. When she found out her babies were from two different men, she said, “I didn’t know this could happen.”
The doctor who is taking care of her named Tulio Jorge Franco, said that her case is extremely rare and described it as a “one in a million” situation. The woman who wants to remain anonymous told local media she had sex with two different men on the same day and became pregnant from both.
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She reportedly said: “I remembered that I had had sex with another man and called him to take the test, which was positive. I was surprised by the results. I didn’t know this could happen and the babies are very similar.” she told local media.
Even though this is extremely rare, it isn’t impossible. This phenomenun is called heteroparental superfecundation.
“It is possible to 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,” Dr Tulio Jorge Franco, the woman’s physician, told local news outlet Globo.
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According to the doctor, there are only 20 such cases in the world like this. The National Library of Medicine explains that this case occurs when a second ova released during the same menstrual cycle is additionally fertilised by the sperm cells of a different man in separate sexual intercourse.
One of the fathers is taking care of the twins
The babies are now 16 months old and the young mum said one of the fathers is taking care of them.
“He takes care of both of them, helps me a lot, and gives them all the necessary support that they need,” said the mother.
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The mother said that one of the two men is officially registering at the registry office and taking care of both children.
Some cases are impossible to think of.
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