Why has "superfecundation" never been used as a dramatic plot? Sheesh! :)

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Superfecundation (Superfecundation - Wikipedia) is a situation wherein a mother is carrying babies that are from multiple fathers. As in, Sarah is carrying Bob AND Sam’s babies at the same time!

According to the Wikipedia page, this has been used in two different Greek myths- but both involve Zeus as the second father. Yet, as you can see later in the article, there have been several times in recorded human history when a mother has actually carried two fetuses from two different human fathers.

I’m flabbergasted by two realizations:

a) Tonight I just randomly was reading about triplets on the freaking internet and it occurred to me for the first time in my life: Has any woman ever carried two or more babies from two or more fathers at the same time? Is that even damn possible? So I Googled the idea, and discovered Superfecundation. Question is, why the Holy Hell did I never think of this idea before?!?

b) Why the Holy Hell has no plot ever used this idea? Imagine a Grey’s Anatomy episode or a Days of Our Lives storyline or a Godfather movie or a Shakespeare play or a… I mean, what the Hell? If this is apparently a real freaking thing, somebody should’ve used it as a plot at some point, right?

c) If I’m wrong and it HAS been used as a plot before, please add the examples to the Wikipedia article.

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Are you sure it’s never come up? It’s the type of thing I could expect to happen in a soap opera.

Though even weirder would be if one fetus absorbed another and became a chimera, meaning that they biologically had two fathers.

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Ben is told by a doctor that he is the father of only one of Vivien’s twins.

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Good call

  1. Ally Horton and Johnny DiMera – Days of Our Lives
    Number one on this list? Two babies, one womb, two different fathers. Yes, the scandalous paternity of Ally and Johnny, Sami’s twins in 2007 tops this list.
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Okay, I’m glad you guys are coming up with modern stories containing these plots, but please, as I asked in the OP, add them to the Wikipedia page on superfecundation.

Start a new category on the page, called “In Popular Culture” and add them there, please.

Thanks!

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Don’t know how.
Don’t wanna know how…

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My experience on Wikipedia is that the editors generally don’t like such sections. If they do exist, they’re supposed to be particularly notable examples: i.e. those that got a lot of secondary coverage.

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Probably because it would seem so far fetched as to be totally unbelievable. Reality, however, has no such restrictions.

… insisted that Hayes had become pregnant simultaneously by two different men (through heteropaternal superfecundation) and had given birth to both children, killing the one found on the beach…

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Hey, I know! Now that you’ve got some info, you can add it to Wikipedia yourself!

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That’s a totally bizarre story. But if I follow it correctly, superfecundation is just a far-fetched hypothesis raised by the police to avoid having to concede that confessions were coerced. There’s no evidence supporting it being the correct explanation for what happened here.

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There is a scene on Friends where Joey, who plays Dr. Drake Ramoray on Days of Our Lives, says " I have to get back to the set. I’m delivering twins, and only one of them is mine".

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… and that’s the sanitized version!

[/hijack - back on topic]

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Guiding Light also had a superfecundaton story - Blake Marler had twins by Ross and Rick (although reading Blake’s Wikipedia page, it apparently turned out that Ross was the father of both babies). I just remember that Isaac Mizrahi, who designed the wedding dress of Blake’s actress, Elizabeth Keifer, around the time of the story, was fascinated by the idea of twins by two different fathers.

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I give you Double Mommy, the Lifetime Movie where — well, just watch the trailer.

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The problem with Superfecundation is that any fetus that Lois had would probably rip itself from the womb.