Woman gives birth to rare identical quadruplet daughters - ABC7 Los Angeles

What the report says

KABC-TV, citing Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, reported that Jenitar Sau Na’amoana, 34, delivered four identical daughters in Queensland, Australia, after a naturally conceived pregnancy described by her physician as extraordinarily rare. The babies were born by cesarean section on July 14 at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.

According to the hospital account reported by KABC-TV, Na’amoana and her husband, Jortham, did not use fertility treatment. The four girls developed from a single fertilized egg and shared one placenta, making the pregnancy a monozygotic quadruplet pregnancy with an additional high-risk feature. Dr. Alexa Bendall, the fetal medicine specialist and obstetrician who cared for Na’amoana, said in a hospital video that the case was the first of its kind seen at the hospital and that identical quadruplets are estimated to occur in about 1 in 15 million pregnancies.

KABC-TV reported that Na’amoana was admitted at 25 weeks of pregnancy and gave birth three weeks later, at 28 weeks. The newborns are being treated in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, and Bendall said they were doing extremely well. The parents named the girls Emily, Harriet, Alexa and Catherine; Alexa was named for Bendall.

The birth significantly expands the family: Na’amoana and her husband already had four children, ages 1 to 10, before the quadruplets arrived. As broader context included in the report, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data counted 144 quadruplet-and-higher-order births in the United States in 2024, underscoring how uncommon such births are even before considering identical quadruplets sharing one placenta.