# Mum of four gives birth to quadruplets in possible world first.

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Podcast: [ABC News Top Stories](https://stenobird.com/podcast/abc-news-top-stories-6001594)
Published: 2026-07-20T22:45:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/abc-news-top-stories/naus_quadrupletsjaod_2107/106938980
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An Australian mother has given birth to identical quadruplets in what doctors have described as one of the rarest births in the world, as they developed from a single fertilised egg and shared the same placenta. What makes Australia's identical quadruplets so biologically rare?

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