What if our surrogate doesn't become pregnant?

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Hi, this is Danielle Gage, Case Manager at Bright Futures Families Surrogacy, with Ask a Surrogacy Expert. And today our question is: What if our surrogate doesn't become pregnant? Now, it's a pretty common question. We get asked that a lot. We do work with highly successful fertility clinics. And I would say that it's very rare for a surrogate to not become pregnant in the amount of transfer, embryo transfer attempts that are listed in the legal contract. So when you are matched and you have your gestational carrier, you will go through a legal process and you will complete a gestational carrier agreement. And in that agreement, there will be a listed number of embryo transfer attempts that you're both agreeing to. And it would be pretty rare for the surrogate to not become pregnant in that amount of embryo transfer attempts. Thank you for your question.