Friends of a gay couple from Auckland are raising money to help them bring "triplings" home to New Zealand.
Triplings are three babies born from the sperm of one man and one egg donor, but are carried by different surrogates. In this case there were two surrogate mothers and three of the four implanted embryos were successful.
A friend of the men has set up a givealittle.co.nz page, saying the couple need funds because one of the babies was sick after it was born.
"The problem now is that they are stranded in this third world country with little or no finances left and another month or so of bureaucracy to get through."
The sick baby boy has made a full recovery and is now with his parents, his brother and sister, the givealittle.co.nz post says.
The GayNZ website reports the couple have spent four years saving to pay for bringing the children into the world and their adoption agency has abandoned them.
They are in Mexico and unable to leave there.
"We have spent every cent we have left to bring these three beautiful Kiwi babies into the world. We now need to get ourselves and the three babies out of this dangerous country and back to the safety of New Zealand," GayNZ reports the men saying in an online plea for help.
