Blog
Causes of a Failed Embryo Transfer
The confirmation of a failed embryo transfer can feel devastating. After weeks, sometimes months, of contracts, medications, and monitoring, a negative pregnancy test result often leaves both intended parents and surrogates feeling confused, angry and even a bit...
Surprise! Your Surrogate is Having Multiples!
While some parents will openly seek and try to achieve a multiple pregnancy, the news that your surrogate has been confirmed with more than one fetus can come as a surprise. In the rare instance that your surrogate becomes pregnant with triplets or other high order...
Managing Surrogacy Relationships: Shared Conception Will Help You!
The options of starting a family through surrogacy are peaking. Demand and competition are driving the clinical costs down, and it's more affordable for couples who want their own biological child or who want to raise a newborn through the gift of surrogacy and egg...
Mistakes to Avoid For Women Considering Becoming Surrogate Mothers Or Gestational Carriers
If you are a woman who wants to be a gestational carrier or traditional surrogate independently, without the help of an agency, then you need to really consider what you are getting yourself into. Surrogacy is a life changing endeavor and as great as it sounds in...
Helpful Tips to Soothe Pregnancy–Related Nausea
Nausea, or morning sickness, in pregnancy is incredibly common, and is generally a good sign that the pregnancy is healthy. However, this fact does little to help ease the discomfort throughout the day, or when you, the surrogate, is bent over the toilet! With...
Placenta Encapsulation
Placenta Encapsulation Specialists encapsulate women’s placentas for them so they can consume it after giving birth. When carefully and properly prepared for consumption, the placenta can nourish the postpartum mother just as it did for the baby in your womb. Through...
Double Trouble… being sick while pregnant
"Oh man – oh man – oh man. UGH! I was just starting to feel better. No more nausea, no more vomiting; I can finally keep things down and morning sickness was slowly becoming a thing of the past. Then…BAM! I’ve got a cold. That stuffy, achy, icky-ness feeling that I...
Oh the Changes! Your NEW pregnancy boobs!
I'm So much goes on in a woman’s body during pregnancy. Some noticeable to the observer, some not so much. Your breasts are definitely a noticeable one. Usually, to the greater satisfaction of your partner. Hands off though, ‘cause: Ouch! Those things are for looking...
Super Foods and Villainous Eats
No Drinking, No Smoking. No raw fish. Unpasteurized dairy is a no-no. No undercooked meats. No raw cookie dough . Tuna?! Deli meats? Ceviche and smoked fish? No. NO CAFFEINE. There are so many “no’s” when you are pregnant, so many “watch out” and “be careful of”...
Casual Encounters of Surrogates Out and About in the Community
As a surrogacy agency who consistently works with surrogates, we thought you all would enjoy true stories of encounters surrogates have had while out and about in their community. Read on. "My neighbor comes out and takes her kids to school at the same time I do...
The Benefits of a Prenatal Massage
A surrogate once remarked, "I did it! I finally decided I was worth being taken care of and allowed myself what I had previously considered a luxury: a prenatal massage. You’d think after three pregnancies, I would have done it ages ago; however, I am a very stubborn...
Explaining Surrogacy to your Kids…as the Surrogate
One of the things surrogates are asked quite frequently is “How do you explain surrogacy to your kids? Isn’t that going to be hard on them?” People asking this are concerned that the surrogate's children would be confused that they didn’t take the baby...
5 Reasons You Should Use a Surrogacy Agency
Deciding to participate in Surrogacy is a huge step whether you’re an Intended Parent (IP) or the Surrogate Mother, herself. It is a huge decision that probably came with months, if not years of weighing options and doing research. For some Intended Parents, finding a...
The Importance of that Surrogacy Contract
Nobody likes it; nobody wants to read it, but you HAVE TO READ YOUR SURROGACY CONTRACT. Seriously, our surrogacy agency, Shared Conception, cannot stress this enough. Everything you ever wanted, needed, and never even thought of knowing is in there. It’s the Rosetta...
The Joy of Becoming a Surrogate
It has to be one of the longest and most winding roads to travel on when a couple or an individual decides to have a surrogate carry their...
What Is a Surrogate?
There are two kinds of surrogate mothers. Traditional surrogates Artificial insemination first made surrogacy possible. A traditional surrogate is a woman who is artificially inseminated with the father'ssperm.She then carries the baby and delivers it for the parents...
Frequently Asked Questions from Intended Parents
She's pregnant! I'm excited, but I thought I’d be able to relax more than I have by now. Achieving pregnancy isn’t a finish line so much as it just one hurdle (though a HUGE one) on the way. Each new milestone in the pregnancy will bring with it a modicum of...
Let's Talk Surrogates….Who Are They?
So choosing a woman to be your surrogate is the central part of your surrogacy experience. A surrogacy agency, such as Shared Conception, understands the importance of the intended parents choosing just the right surrogate. We know how to efficiently present you...