Gay dads with triplets explain their surrogacy surprise – AOL

New dads and TikTok couple Jake and Sean (@daddiestothree) gave birth to triplets thanks to surrogacy. In their TikTok, the new dads answer a follower’s question that read, “I don’t understand how surrogacy works but I’m very curious. Were triplets naturally developed or did you choose an embryo that had triplets?” . Jake starts the video off by saying, “So this is actually a pretty great question and one that we get pretty often. Science is crazy! It actually took four people to bring our family here”. The couple started with an anonymous egg donor that they found through a database. Half the eggs were fertilized with Sean’s sperm, and the other half with Jake’s, resulting in twelve viable embryos. Jake continues, “We did some testing so that we would know which of those embryos were girls and which were boys and then we implanted one girl and one boy embryo—one of each of ours”. Sean adds, “And that’s how we got triplets! One of our girls decided to split on us! Didn’t happen the way that we planned and now we couldn’t imagine life any other way”. One TikToker wrote, “I love that your girl embryo was like, ‘Just me and three boys? No way, I need a gal pal”