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[quote=Anonymous]Yet another twin mom here. I understand why people want twins. In my case, because I needed a surrogate to have kids at all, I really wanted to transfer two embryos-- because when you're spending over $100k on surrogacy, you really want it to work, and you don't want to pay for it twice.

So we transferred two, and they both stuck. Hooray! Until my surrogate almost miscarried at 22 weeks. She had an emergency cerclage, and managed to hang on until 25 weeks. The bill for the NICU stay was $1.3 million (all covered by my insurance and Medicaid, which covers all NICU babies after 30 days, in case your insurance doesn't cover everything). One of my girls almost died right in front of me in the NICU (her heart stopped, but she was resuscitated). They both almost went blind from retinopathy of prematurity, and will have lingering vision problems for life.

They're almost 3 and still recovering from the effects of prematurity. Speech therapy and feeding therapy weekly for the one who still can't eat solid foods. One has an autism diagnosis (though autism is frequently misdiagnosed in micropreemies, so we're not sure about that one). Still, I consider myself lucky, because my kids are alive-- and I know many people whose twins didn't make it.

And all of this happened because I didn't want to pay another $100k for a second surrogacy. In hindsight, I would GLADLY pay that amount to not have put my children (and myself) through all of this.[/quote]

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