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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Smee Queensland state correspondent

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

pregnant Woman Holding Her Belly
The court ultimately ruled that while the children were ‘gestational twins’, they were not birth siblings for the purpose of surrogacy laws. Photograph: Oscar Wong/Getty Images

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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