The story of these twins who have different parents will surprise you

Discover the amazing story of Calder and Alexandra, the twin brothers who do not have the same father.

By the time Simon and Graeme Berney-Edwards, parents of Twins, received the news that they were going to be parents had to live a tsunami of emotions.

The first thing they did was to see the ultrasound. then they heard the heartbeat of a baby, then on the other. And, like millions of couples around the world in these circumstances, they felt the tears and joy melt into them.

The most surprising thing about this story is that, unlike many gay couples, Simon and Graeme did not have to choose which of the two would be the biological father of the family. Twinssince Stone would bring to the world a son conceived by each of them.

She became pregnant twice in the same week after in vitro fertilization

During this first study by ultrasound, they were able to visualize it thanks to a request for video call presented by the woman who had volunteered as surrogate mother, Meg Stone. This is how Alexandra is the daughter of Simon and Calder is the son of Graeme.

While the parents were in their family home in the UK. During an interview at the BBC, Simon commented: "I remember sitting at the dining table for two hours, ranging from euphoria to tears."

The children are already 19 months old and live in the UK with both parents. But the process of bringing them to the world involved a lot of logistics and science. By the time Simon and Graeme decided to grow their family, they went to an agency to help parents in the process of in vitro fertilization.

At first, they had the idea that they would have a son begotten by one of them and, later, a second son procreated by the other. But the agency that helped them told them that it was possible to have both children at the same time and with the same mother.

After thinking about the matter, the couple decided to pursue this idea, for which he obtained an anonymous egg donor in the United States. Both went to Las Vegas, where the eggs were collected and separated into two groups: half would be fertilized with Simon's sperm and the other half with Graeme's sperm.

Both embryos that were fertilized were evaluated and frozen until the time of implantation into the pregnant woman's uterus.