-Mia Washington lamenting the fact that her twin sons have different daddies.
Washington began notice that her 11-month old twins, Justin and Jordan didn't quite look alike. When she had them tested the results came back showing there was a nearly impossible chance that the boys had the same daddy.
Then Washington thought back to that night when she cheated on her boyfriend, James Harrison, with another man.
Amazingly Harrison chose to stay with Washington and will raise his kid, and the other guy's as his own.
Authorities say the this is so rare that there are only a handful of known cases across the globe.
According to doctors, if a woman has more than one sexual partner while she is ovulating, there's a miniscule chance that different sperm cells can fertilise two separate eggs. It's called heteropaternal superfecundation.
Dr Chris Dreiling, from the Paediatric Association of Dallas, told Fox News: 'Because sperm cells take a while to travel and eggs take a while to travel there can be an overlap.'
The couple is now coping with the aftermath of the DNA bombshell and plan to tell the twins when they're old enough to understand.
'It was the weirdest thing to think that two little babies could have grown in my stomach together and been born seven minutes apart but yet have different fathers.
'Five months ago we found out that I was pregnant again and our new baby is due to arrive in the autumn."
Can't wait to find out who the daddy is.
2 comments:
Based on just the pictures you've posted(especially the last 2) I actually think these kids look alike. Since they weren't born identical and since it's so rare for this to have occured, I'm surprised the family even gave a moments thought to having paternity tests done. There are probably a lot more cases around the globe that go undetected since this is something parents don't even consider. Once you learn it's twins the only reason to test would be to see who the father is, not fathers plural.
Is that guy Omar from 'The Wire'?
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