What is Heteropaternal Superfecundation? Brazilian Woman Gives Birth To Twins with Different Biological Fathers

What is Heteropaternal Superfecundation? Brazilian Woman Gives Birth To Twins with Different Biological Fathers
source: Times of India
  • Heteroparental superfecundation is an abnormal pregnancy case where a woman impregnated babies from two different fathers.
  • This rare condition has two twins born but their biological father is different. A similar case is reported in Brazil.
  • Learn about the bizarre pregnancy scenario in Brazil where a mother conceived babies of two fathers.

A bizarre and rare phenomenon of Heteropaternal Superfecundation is found in Brazil. The Brazilian woman who delivered two genetically different twins is now the topic of the table.

What is Heteropaternal Superfecundation?

The medical condition heteropaternal superfecundation is termed when two different genetic twins are born from a mother’s body. The pregnancy case of a 19-year-old Brazilian girl left doctors speechless. The rare and bizarre discovery of conceiving a baby is discovered.

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A Brazilian woman gave birth to twins with Heteropaternal Superfecundation (source: Very Well Family)

Medically, Heteropaternal superfecundation is a rare pregnancy phenomenon when two different ova are fertilized by a different man in separate sex activities.

The mother of 2 kids, was born with a genetically different identity from the father. She had sex with 2 different men the same day and was pregnant but turn out she had no clue who the father was. In such a conflicting scenario, she performed a DNA test on her twins, and everyone was shocked by the results.

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When was the DNA test performed? The Brazilian twin babies turned 1

Brazilian woman finds the need of tracing her baby father after she celebrated her twins birthday. According to the Brazilian mother who had sexual intercourse with two men on the same day and then recalled her decision saying,

“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.”

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A rare case of Heteropaternal Superfecundation (source: Information Nigeria)

After wondering for months, she finally managed to take a paternity test for her twin babies. Out of the two fathers, she first chose to test the DNA of the man whom she thought the baby’s father could probably be. Surprise, it only said he was the father to one of the kids.

Eventually, she collected samples from her second sex partner and it confirmed the DNA relationship with the other kid. It was when everyone got thrilled and reported one in a million cases with the term Heteropaternal Superfecundation.

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