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Sharon LaMothe is the Co-Founder of Infertility Answers, Inc. http://infertilityanswers.org/, the Creator of the blogs Surrogacy 101 and The Third Party and is owner of LaMothe Services, LLC http://lamotheservices.com/ a Reproductive Industry Consulting Company and writes about starting and maintaining an Infertility Industry Business in the blog 'The Agency Angle' http://theagencyangle.blogspot.com/ .

Sharon co-owned and operated Surrogacy Consultants of Florida, LLC, the first successful independent surrogacy agency in Florida. Sharon's responsibilities as an agency owner included interviewing new Surrogates, educating and assisting Intended Parents and Surrogates on Third Party Reproduction, managing relationships, finding clinics, reproductive attorneys and psychologists to work with her clients along with writing packet forms, intake sheets, brochures and website content, marketing and advertising. Prior to owning SCF, Sharon worked with an adoption/surrogacy attorney.

Sharon is also a Co-Founder of Egg Donor & Surrogacy Professional Association (EDSPA) and currently holds the Surrogacy Chair. She is also an Advisor of the OBGYN.net Women's Health Forum and serves on the Parents Via Egg Donation Advisory Board as well as being a member of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and the Mental Health Professional Group.

A past 2x (Independent) Gestational Surrogate (Carrier), Sharon gave birth to twin girls in March of 2000 for a Florida couple, and in January 2005, gave birth to girl/boy twins for a same sex New York couple.

Sharon's educational background includes a Social Service major which encompassed classes in Crisis Identification and Intervention, Interviewing and Counseling, Communication in Groups and Organizations. Sharon's continuing education classes include Total Quality Management (TQM) and Shared Decision Making. She has offered her unique perspectives and expertise by holding round table discussions and speaking on the topic of Surrogacy for SMART ART, RESOLVE, American Fertility Association, Fertile Dreams and by arranging staff development luncheons and meetings with various clinics, hospitals and law offices. Sharon also offers individual consulting for those needing guidance at any point in their research of Third Party Family Building for both Surrogates/Carriers and Intended Parents.

Sharon is married with two children (almost 10 years apart due to secondary infertility) and currently resides in Seattle, WA.