Dr Jenkins met Dr Mayfield, a psychiatrist, while they were completing their medical residencies in Boston. The two were together for eight years when Mr Hodges, who works at a zoo hospital, came into the picture. Although their relationship with Mr Hodges began as a friendship, things quickly turned romantic. After five years of throuple-dom, the trio started seriously discussing parenthood when friends offered to donate their leftover embryos to them. Over the next year, the family would spend more than US $120,000 ($A$154,618) on legal fees, contracts, implantations and tests. "Gay cou...