A Berlin couple got an interesting surprise this week when the woman gave birth to twins with very different skin tones.<\/p>\n
One of the two boys born on July 11 to the German father and Ghanaian mother has dark skin, and the other has light skin.<\/p>\n
"We all couldn’t believe it," said the Lichtenberg maternity ward’s head doctor, Birgit Weber, said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
"The staff came from all corners of the ward to see and the mother just kept looking from one child to the other."<\/p>\n
The West African mother and the father from Potsdam named their healthy boys born Ryan and Leo.<\/p>\n
"It is very unusual for twins to be born with different skin color," Weber said. "It’s the first time for our clinic."<\/p>\n
The
\nmother said it took a while to process the event. "I imagine sitting at
\na playground where the other mothers will call me crazy when I tell
\nthem the boys are twins," she said.<\/p>\n
Coincidentally, the 2008
\nInternational Congress of Genetics is being held in Berlin this week.
\nHead of the conference, Dr. Rudi Balling said the event is very
\nunusual. <\/p>\n
"But it is definitely possible, because ultimately the genes of both parents are combined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n