The couple, who tied the knot at 2014, told Us Weekly only in April 2019 that they were not far from fatherhood. "So we're very close," the former'NSync member, 42, informed Us in the moment. "We are a couple weeks away, I'd say!"
The Out of Sync writer added:"We ought to have been following this with cameras because... we found a surrogate over a year ago, and I'm like,'This is going to be the quickest process ' We are over a year now, we are on donor No. 7 and it seems like that is still functioning. We've had this donor for over three months today. ... We discovered a polyp in her that we just have to, you know, for safety reasons, get removed before we can get her pregnant."
Bass echoed this sentiment in January, telling Us,"I believe we broke a record with how many donors we have gone through. But it's looking like this next one is really going to work." He added that because Turchin, 34, is a fraternal twin, the pair were hoping to get multiples.
At the moment, the musician had not yet gone to former bandmate Justin Timberlake for parenting guidance. "When we've got them, I'm sure all the guys [from'NSync] with their infants will emerge and give us as much hints as they could to be a better father," he told Us.
Back in June 2018, though, Bass said he was planning on asking for his mother's help -- along with his husband's mom as well.
"We are excited about our families being involved," the Mississippi indigenous told Us in the moment. "We are going to want a good deal of night nurses in the start. We can not wait for our moms to come and take turns being a night nurse. They've got to instruct us what to do. We've got no idea what we are doing!"
Following the pair's surrogate endured a miscarriage in August 2019, they chased their IVF plans amid the coronavirus pandemic.
"Sadly, you know, our first try at it just didn't stick," Bass exclusively told Us at May 2020. "So we were going to attempt again and we were supposed to become pregnant last month, but naturally, [coronavirus] stopped all that. So we are on a pause until it is safe enough to bring our contributor to California and really test it out and be in a position to make the embryos again. We're certainly postponed a few months, but we're still going for it"
