34岁的澳大利亚女性Jenitar Na'amoana在皇家布里斯班和女子医院通过剖腹产生下了四位同卵女婴[1]。四胞胎于7月14日出生，孕周为28周零4天，目前在新生儿重症监护室状况良好[1]。
这次怀孕被医院描述为"极高风险"[1]。根据主治医生Alexa Bendall的估计，同卵四胞胎的发生率约为每1500万例妊娠中一例，而且这四胞胎共享胎盘的情况前所未闻[1]。
四位新生儿被命名为Emily、Harriet、Catherine和Alexa，其中Alexa以主治医生的名字命名[1]。Na'amoana与丈夫Jortham已育有四名子女[1]。
为了应对家庭扩大带来的挑战，Na'amoana已发起在线筹款活动，目标是为一辆至少能坐10人的面包车筹款[1]。截至目前，该筹款活动已收到超过37,000澳元的捐款[1]。
A 34-year-old Australian woman, Jenitar Na'amoana, delivered identical quadruplets naturally through caesarean section at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital on July 14 [1]. The four girls were born at 28 weeks and 4 days of pregnancy and are doing well in the neonatal intensive care unit [1].
The pregnancy was classified as "extremely high risk" by the hospital [1]. Na'amoana and her husband Jortham already have four children prior to this birth [1]. According to Dr. Alexa Bendall, identical quadruplets occur in approximately one in 15 million pregnancies, with the shared placenta among all four babies being unprecedented [1].
The newborns have been named Emily, Harriet, Catherine, and Alexa—with the last named after the attending physician [1]. To accommodate her expanded family, Na'amoana initiated an online fundraising campaign to purchase a van with seating for at least 10 people, which has already received over 37,000 Australian dollars in donations [1].