Newborn Twins Have Different Fathers

A woman has given birth to twins with two different dads.

18:09 11 May 2015

The incredible case was revealed after the woman, identified only as T.M., named her current boyfriend as the father of her twins. However, she admitted that she slept with another man a week after she believed she conceived with her boyfriend. 

 

The paternity test confirmed that the two men had each fathered one of the twins. 

 

The woman’s former boyfriend said that he was almost certainly the father of one of the twin but wasn’t the father of the other and he was right. Now, he only has to pay $28 per week for his daughter. 

 

Medically, the process is known as heteropaternal superfecundation, a rare incident that takes place when a woman releases two eggs during her menstrual cycle and different men fertilise one egg each. 

 

The same thing happened to Todd and Julia Grovenburg of Fort Smith, Arkansas in 2009. They conceived an additional child while already pregnant with a baby conceived two and a half weeks earlier. 

 

“It’s common knowledge and written down in medical books that you can’t get ¬pregnant while already pregnant," Julia said.

 

“But somehow, after years of trying to conceive, I became ¬the exception to the rule – getting pregnant twice in two weeks.”