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21 July 2026
Extremely rare identical girl quadruplets born at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital has delivered four spontaneously conceived identical quadruplet girls, sharing one placenta and split from one singular fertilised egg.
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Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital has delivered four spontaneously conceived identical quadruplet girls - a remarkable case that is possibly an Australian first.
Proud mum Jenitar welcomed her four beautiful daughters, Emily, Harriet, Alexa and Catherine via c-section at 28+4 weeks on 14 July 2026 at RBWH.
While the little ones grow big and strong in our NICU, RBWH Dr Alexa shares a little about their story! ❤️
Congratulations to Mum and Dad. A real blessing to have this wonderful little babies. Looked after very well trained NICU staff who are very proud to be part of the journey of this bubs. God bless this babies .
Dear Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, I was a patient at the RBWH in December 98 January 1999 under the care of Dr Gino Pecoraro. My babies were then cared for by Dr Slaughter before they were transferred to Rockhampton when they were 10 days old. I am writing because of the recent media coverage about naturally conceived identical quadruplets. My pregnancy was also a naturally conceived identical quadruplet pregnancy. I was carrying one egg, one placenta and one sac. Sadly, one of our babies stopped growing during the pregnancy and was only discovered on the placenta after the birth, so I gave birth to my identical triplets. I am wondering whether my medical records still exist and whether my case was documented as a naturally conceived identical quadruplet pregnancy. If so, I would appreciate any assistance in confirming this, as I believe my family's story is also an important part of Queensland's medical history. Thank you for your time and any help you can provide.
Glads Nocon
Congratulations Mum and Dad and bless you, RBWH. Your neonatal care is incredible, as my beautiful healthy, now 8 year old can attest to! 🩷🩷
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Wonderful job to Mum. How is she doing? Congratulations to the family💕
Wonderful news! Glad that the girls are all healthy. They are in the best care. Wishing them & their family a happy future.
The family is in the best hands there are❤️
4 to 8 - The Na'amoana Quadruplet Journey so special 🩷🩷🩷🩷
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Incroyable que Dieu vous bénisse tous.
The Sara Quads were the first Australia Quads to be born Congratulations and many blessings💗💗💗💗
For anyone asking how they can help Jenitar, Jortham and their eight children, this is the family’s official GoFundMe: ❤️ gofund.me/a8280a79d Emily, Harriet, Alexa and Catherine are believed to be Australia’s first known naturally conceived identical quadruplets sharing one placenta—an extraordinary occurrence estimated at between one in 15 million and one in 64 million pregnancies. The girls are receiving specialist neonatal care, while the family prepares for the enormous cost of safely transporting and raising four premature babies alongside their four older children. Every donation helps, but sharing the official fundraiser is also greatly appreciated. Please use only the official link above. Thank you for supporting this remarkable family. 🙏❤️
Roslyn Newman
Some of our patients are diving deep, 45 feet to be exact, without ever leaving the ground floor of the RBWH!
Dive into Hyperbaric Medicine with Dr Ken and find out what happens inside the chamber. 🤿
Who is eligible?
Acutely aware of in my scuba diving days; like for decompression injuries, etc.
I received hyperbaric treatment for sudden sensi-neural hearing loss about 12 years ago now in at RWBH. I went every day for about 3 weeks and sat in the chamber for a few hours. I found it quite relaxing in what was otherwise a very stressful time and a compulsory unplug time. We had a movie put on for us and I was able to read a book too.
Amazing- I spent a week in Townsville 20 years ago in the chamber (daily) as it was the only one in QLD at the time - diving related….🙃
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Staff Specialist Dr Gary lives a double a life working in both the RBWH Emergency and Trauma Centre and as the Australian Wallabies team doctor!
After moving from Northern Ireland to play rugby and work as a junior doctor in 2011, Gary has found his niche working across two roles that combine his passions.
"My interest is in concussion and traumatic brain injury research. I have been able to combine my roles with the Jamieson Trauma Institute, RBWH ETC and Rugby Australia to research concussions and ways to make the game safer and also manage patients who present to our emergency departments," he said.
“It is always hard to balance both ETC and rugby schedules and I often go straight back to work the day after games, but I have a lot of support from both organisations to make it work.
"A career highlight was the British and Irish Lions tour last season and I'm looking forward to the home Rugby World Cup next year, where many of my RBWH colleagues will also be supporting me on the matchday medical teams."
👏#ShoutoutSaturday to Dr. Gary, and best of luck to the Wallabies who are playing at Suncorp Stadium tonight!
Great Guy
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Thank you for championing concussion research Gary and for contributing your expertise to QBI’s studies 👏
Gary you bloody legend! So proud of you!
Go Gary!
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Congratulations, Dr Gary. A fantastic example of how clinical excellence and research can have an impact well beyond the emergency department 👏🏻
Legend
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Hi Gary 🙂
Gina Nelson
Well then you have to read my book because I couldn't bellieve how little doctors knew about concussion. I was told my post concussion vision was me 'just getting old' until I met clare fraser and so on. When I disclosed other symptoms to a top concussion neurologist apparently, he said 'I've never heard of that.' in spite of their being literature and thousands of us with concussion syndrome saying the same. You should hear how we talk about neurologists on the concussion support groups. You need to start listening to our stories. I had to make myself an expert to get any kind of help. www.amazon.com.au/dp/1764783328
Metro North HealthHi can you get those pathetic organisations Metro South Health and Queensland Health to stop blocking people from any medical care in the state. I would post it on their pages but they would rather intimidate disabled people and threaten them with violence than be held accountable in public. Do you guys share their beliefs?
Four tonnes of paper a day - that's how many records were being moved around the RBWH before the shift to more advanced digital technologies in 2014!📄🗃️
The adoption of the full integrated electronic Medical Record (ieMR) digital patient record system is RBWH’s next step into the digital age, with nearly 3000 paper forms currently in-use at the hospital that will no longer be required from October this year.
This doesn’t mean the work of the Medical Records team becomes any less crucial, with approximately 1300 forms that cannot be replicated or replaced by a computer system – such as patient-completed consent or cognitive assessment forms, as well as those featuring hand-completed diagrams – still requiring careful management and safe-keeping. 🫶
Medical Records Administrator Jarryd, pictured with his colleague John, says that the Medical Records team plays an integral yet underrated part in the patient journey.
"We process any physical clinical document through a process of scanning and rigorous quality checks and add them to a patient file. From there, medical practitioners can access this information for their patients in our online software," Jarryd said.
"We are currently a 24-hour unit, and the patient journey doesn’t cease at discharge. Accurate record keeping helps clinicians to make informed decisions on the future treatment of the patient."
long overdue recognition for all the records crew, well done guys for keeping the rbwh wheels moving all these years.
Aw, look at you guys!! Doing amazing work as always 😍😍
Aww 2 of my favourites 😍 x
Haha good old John Duffield, nice to see the dungeon get some recognition
Do y’all have the fountain of youth hiding down there in LG? You guys haven’t aged a day since I last worked with you! Great job team!
The two lynchpins of the organisation, John and Jarryd. 😀
Managing patient information in paper and electronic formats is such an important function required for patient care and hospital operations. Many dedicated people work across Australia’s hospitals in health information management roles. Well done to the team at RBWH. 👏👏 (CEO, Health Information Management Association of Australia, HIMAA)
You guys still there!!.. Big move coming up. You two got this.. nice work lads
Well done Team, you are amazing ❤️💪
Good luck. What could go wrong? Best wishes from SCUH.
I would have thought the whole of Metro North would have been running on this system by now. Good Luck with the transition Records Team.
2014?
"So what does the patients file look like?"..............."Its manilla colour and looks like this."
Nicole McKenna
Hi Rod ☺️
One glitch and the whole system’s down & everyone’s helpless. 🙄
Sad though older records have supposedly been destroyed. May help families who have inherited medical conditions from women who were administered Diethylstilbestrol and now daughters and granddaughters are being severely affected.
Big change..
Metro North Health Hi can you get those pathetic organisations Metro South Health and Queensland Health to stop blocking people from any medical care in the state. I would post it on their pages but they would rather intimidate disabled people and threaten them with violence than be held accountable in public. Do you guys share their beliefs?
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