A 19-year-old woman, in an unusual case, gave birth to twins belonging to the men she slept with same day.
Gatekeepers News reports that the twins tested positive to different bio-dads in a DNA test, according to local news outlet GloboNews.
The Brazilian woman said she gave birth to the twins nine months after sleeping with two men on the same day. She conducted the tests to ascertain the father of the kids but was surprised with the test results.
“I remembered that I had had s*x with another man and called him to take the test, which was positive,” the woman said requesting her identity to be concealed.
“I was surprised by the results. I didn’t know this could happen. They are very identical,” she added.
The unusual case is referred to as heteropaternal superfecundation. It occurs when a second ova discharged during the same menstrual cycle is additionally fertilized by the sperm cells of a different man in a separate s*xual encounter.
Medical practitioner Tulio Franco confirmed the possibility of the case but admitted its rareness.
“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,” Mr Franco said.
