A NEW mum has given birth to twins – who have
two different fathers.
The incredible case was revealed after the woman,
identified only as T.M., named her current boyfriend
as the father of her twins.
But T.M. admitted before maternity papers were
signed that she had actually slept with a different
man a week after she believed she conceived with
her boyfriend.
A paternity test was carried out and it was revealed
that the two men had each fathered one of the
twins, who are now toddlers.
Now the woman's original partner only has to pay
out child support for one of the children.
Passaic County Judge Sohail Mohammad made the
ruling in the paternity case on Monday, the New
Jersey Law Journal reported.
Paternity tests showed the woman's former
boyfriend was almost certainly the father of one
twin – but wasn't the father of the other.
Now he only has to pay out $28 – around £18 –
per week for his daughter.
Judge Mohammad said he found just two other
court cases of a woman giving birth to twins from
separate dads, which occurs in one out of every
13,000 reported paternity cases involving twins.
It seems medically impossible, but a woman can
give birth to twins with two fathers when she has
sex with two different men in the same week.
In a process known as heteropaternal
superfecundation, the rare incident occurs when a
woman releases two eggs during her menstrual
cycle and different men fertilise one egg each.
It is a more common occurrence when the same
dad fertilises two eggs during separate incidences
of sex.
Amazingly, it is also possible for a woman to give
birth to twins who have been conceived weeks or
even months apart, if she continues to ovulate even
after she has become pregnant, in a process called
superfetation.
It is claimed that superfetation is common in some
species of animals, but is extremely rare in humans.
In 2009, Todd and Julia Grovenburg of Fort Smith,
Arkansas, conceived an additional child while
already pregnant with a baby conceived two and a
half weeks earlier.
Both healthy babies were delivered through
Caesarean section on December 2, 2009, when
Julia, 33, became one of only 11 women ever
reported to conceive while already pregnant.
"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."
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