Baby Making for Everybody : Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents

Description

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.