Black and white twins have been born to a mixed-race couple in Germany. Although they come from a mixed couple, doctors say the case is one in a million. The probability of different colored twins being born even to a mixed-race couple is extremely rare occurrence, but it is possible if genes combine in a certain way. Doctors believe that the 'genetic surprise' might have occurred as one of the mother's ancestors was white or one of the father's ancestors was black.
The twins were delivered by Caesarean section in a Berlin hospital on July 11, but were kept from the public for six days. Their mother, Florence Addo-Gerth, 35, from Ghana, has dark skin, and the father, Stephan Gerth, 40, from Potsdam in Germany, is white.
Ryan, who came first, weighing 2.650 kgs, has light colored skin, blue eyes, and dark hair. His brother Leo, weighing 2.606 kgs, looks like his mother, with dark skin and dark eyes. Ryan has been described by his mother as 'noisy,' while Leo is a lot calmer.
"None of us could believe it," said the Lichtenberg maternity ward's head doctor, Birgit Weber. "The staff came from all corners of the ward to see and the mother just kept looking from one child to the other."
Florence said: "I imagine sitting in a playground where the other mothers will call me crazy when I tell them the boys are twins."
