Baby Making for Everybody

Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents

by Marea Goodman, LM, CPM; Ray Rachlin, LM, CPM

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Pub Date Apr 25 2023 | Archive Date Apr 25 2023

Grand Central Publishing | Balance

LGBTQIAP+ | Parenting & Families

Description

What to Expect Before You’re Expecting for people growing families outside the heterosexual nuclear family model, Baby Making for Everybody is a friendly, straightforward guide to fertility for LGBTQ+ and solo parents who want to have kids but don’t know where to start.

In Baby Making for Everybody, queer millennial midwives Ray Rachlin and Marea Goodman use their professional expertise to demystify the dizzying process of pursuing parenthood as queer and solo people, offering detailed, gender-affirming, body-positive advice on topics including:

Fertility tracking for people with uteruses
Choosing a sperm donor, egg donor, or surrogate
Legal considerations for LGBTQ+ families
Navigating pregnancy and gender identity
IUI, ICI, and IVF procedures
Foster parenting and adoption
Miscarriage and infertility

The result is a much-needed compassionate step-by-step guide for every aspect of the complicated, messy, and glorious process of building a family. Combining practical information with personal narratives and first-person community wisdom, this book provides prospective parents with the information they need to grow their families.

What to Expect Before You’re Expecting for people growing families outside the heterosexual nuclear family model, Baby Making for Everybody is a friendly, straightforward guide to fertility for...