Couple Has Rare 1-in-15 Million Pregnancy

Jenitar and Jortham Na'amoana had four children and considered their family complete. Then Jenitar became pregnant again and a routine ultrasound revealed something their doctors had almost never seen: identical quadruplets. All four girls came from a single fertilized egg that split into four embryos, a medical event doctors estimate occurs in just 1 in 15 million pregnancies. On July 14, 2026, Jenitar delivered Emily, Harriet, Catherine and Alexa by caesarean section at 28 weeks and four days at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital in Queensland, Australia. All four girls share 100% of their DNA and are alive and healthy. "The fact that we've got four beautiful, healthy babies born at 28 weeks and four days is incredible," said Dr. Alexa Bendall, the maternal fetal medicine specialist who cared for Jenitar throughout. She had been monitored from 10 weeks gestation and admitted as an inpatient at 25 weeks so every complication could be caught in real time. The pregnancy carried significant risk because all four babies shared one placenta but the family and their medical team made it through.

The odds of this happening without fertility assistance are staggering. The chance of naturally conceiving any quadruplets is 1 in 700,000. The chance of them being identical is roughly 1 in 15 million. There are fewer than 100 documented cases of spontaneous identical quadruplets in medical history. The Na'amoana family, not planning more children and now parents of eight, are one of them. Four identical faces. Eight siblings. One extraordinary story.

Source:https://www.themirror.com/news/world-news/identical-quadruplet-girls-born-naturally-1951025