Article 77ZBA Queensland woman gave birth to twins with different parents after surrogacy coincides with natural pregnancy

Queensland woman gave birth to twins with different parents after surrogacy coincides with natural pregnancy

by
Ben Smee Queensland state correspondent
from World news | The Guardian on (#77ZBA)

Both children were born on same day in November 2025 in situation so rare it had not been contemplated by state surrogacy laws

A Queensland woman gave birth to twin children with separate sets of biological parents last year, in what is believed to be an Australian first situation so rare it had not been contemplated by state surrogacy laws.

The woman, anonymised in a court judgment, conceived an unplanned natural pregnancy about the same time as she received an IVF embryo transfer under a surrogacy arrangement with another couple.

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