IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Rare events keep happening around the globe. But this time, an incident has taken place in Brazil that will leave you speechless.
A 19-year-old woman claimed to have given birth to twins from two different fathers after having sex with both men on the same day.
Nine months after engaging in sexual activity with two men on the same day, the woman gave birth to twins.
She decided to take a paternity test to validate her suspicions as their first birthday approached.
The young mother took a paternity test to confirm who the father of her babies was and she was astonished when she discovered her babies were from two different men.
“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 said in an interview with local media.
Dr Tulio Jorge Franco, the woman’s physician, told the local news media, “It is possible to happen when two eggs from the same mother are fertilised by different men. The babies share the mother’s genetic material, but they grow in different placentas.”
According to Dr Franco, only 20 of such cases have happened in the world so far.
This phenomenon is termed as ‘Heteropaternal superfecundation’.
This occurs mostly in animals like cows, cats, and dogs.
It is a tactic used by females deliberately to increase their chances of producing multiple offspring. But this is not required in humans, so this process doesn’t occur.
This rare phenomenon can take place if the sperm survives in the female tract for a few days or two eggs are produced by a woman at once.
Local media reported that the children are now 16 months old but Dr Franco only spoke about the case this week.
And now, one of the fathers looks after both children, giving their mother support.