Brisbane Family Welcomes 4 Identical Girls, a 1-in-15 Million Birth
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Updated · TODAY · Jul 20
Brisbane Family Welcomes 4 Identical Girls, a 1-in-15 Million Birth
3 articles · Updated · TODAY · Jul 20
Summary
July 14 brought Jenitar and Jortham Na’amoana four daughters—Emily, Harriet, Catherine and Alexa—delivered by C-section at 28 weeks and 4 days at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.
Doctors said the babies are spontaneous monozygotic quadruplets, created when one fertilized egg split into four embryos, a birth estimated to occur in about 1 in 15 million pregnancies.
Jenitar, 34, had been admitted at 25 weeks for close monitoring because the pregnancy was considered extremely high risk, but Dr. Alexa Bendall said both mother and babies are doing extremely well.
The girls will remain in the NICU until they reach full term, while the couple—already parents to four children aged 1 to 10—prepare for life as a family of 10.
Australia may never have recorded a spontaneous identical quadruplet birth before, and the family named one baby, Alexa, after the specialist who managed the pregnancy.