A 35-year-old Canadian woman has given birth to rare identical quadruplets.
Karen Jepp of Calgary, Alberta, delivered Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia by caesarean section on Sunday afternoon at Benefis Healthcare Hospital in Great Falls, Montana.
The four girls were breathing without ventilators and listed in good condition, said hospital spokeswoman Amy Astin.
"These babies are doing grand," said Dr Tom Key, the perinatologist who delivered the girls.
Born about two months early and conceived without fertility drugs, they weighed between 0.98 and 1.18kilograms.
The chances of giving birth to identical quadruplets is about one in 13 million, Key said.
The couple also have a two-year-old son, Simon.
"This is a very big medical event," he said. "Identical quadruplets are extremely rare."
The last reported set were born in April 2006 to a 26-year-old Indian woman.
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