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Baby Making for Everybody

Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents

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This inclusive, straightforward guide to fertility is What to Expect Before You’re Expecting for families outside the heterosexual nuclear family model—perfect 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
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    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.
     
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      • Library Journal

        May 1, 2023

        Written by two licensed midwives specializing in queer and nontraditional family building and parenting, this book aims to connect LGBTQIA+ families and provide resources. The book covers topics such as as sperm and egg donors, surrogacy, fertility, insemination, fostering, and adoption. Both authors share their own struggles as well. Readers are encouraged to explore and ask questions about the reasons they may want to be parents in the first place. Journaling prompts and self-reflection questions are included to help readers who've experienced trauma. Tips on how to parent in times of climate change, racism, and other crises are also provided. Additionally, there's advice for readers wondering how to choose a doctor, pick a donor, and track fertility. Multiple resources are included in the appendix. For example, there's a sample letter to ask for sperm/egg donors, a sample contract for those donating, a template to track the journey to pregnancy, and suggestions for further reading. VERDICT Informative and comprehensive, this book ranks as a must for readers in need of more resources on this topic.

        Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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