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Woman gives birth to rare identical quadruplet daughters
ABC7 Los Angeles • • general
Key Points:
- Jenitar Sau Na'amoana, a 34-year-old woman in Australia, gave birth to rare identical quadruplet daughters via cesarean section at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital without fertility treatments.
- The quadruplets are monozygotic, sharing a single placenta, a phenomenon described by Dr. Alexa Bendall as "unheard of" and estimated to occur in only 1 in 15 million pregnancies.
- Na'amoana was admitted at 25 weeks and delivered at 28 weeks; the babies are currently in the neonatal intensive care unit and are reported to be doing extremely well.
- This is the first spontaneously conceived identical quadruplet pregnancy at the hospital, with the birth doubling the couple's children from four to eight.
- The parents named the daughters Emily, Harriet, Alexa (after the delivering doctor), and Catherine.
