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Since I posted my last blog, I've been on the emotional roller coaster ride for about a year. This type of ups and downs seems truly typical for many intended parents who are going through IVF cycles, but it was a hell of a ride... First, I lost the twins from my previous blog at 10th week. As you can imagine, my world got upside down then.. I kept my chin up and went for another back-to-back IVF. This time, though I transferred two embryos, one split into identical twins, ended up with triplets.. I could not believe that I was having another set of multiples..

The moment of truth finally came yesterday.. It had been two weeks since my surrogate mom got the positive result from her pregnancy blood test. Her hCG level was more than triple the average, so we were very concerned about the possibility of having triplets. Since then, I'd had the mixed emotions of joy and fear, thinking of the complications associated with the multiple pregnancies (selective reductions and all that). Though I'd waited for this positive pregnancy result for 4 years, I couldn't celebrate 100% because of this.