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Baby Making for Everybody by Ray Rachlin, LM, CPM

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Baby Making for Everybody

Publisher
Hachette Audio
Publish Date
25 April 2023
Run Time
9 hours 56 minutes
Format
Audiobook
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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
 
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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Author
Ray Rachlin, LM, CPM
Narrator
Susan Bennett
Duration
9 hours 56 minutes
Release Date
25 April 2023
ISBN
9781668620670
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Genre
Relationships and families: advice and issues, LGBTQ+ / Gay and Lesbian Studies, Involuntary childlessness: advice and issues, Infertility and fertilization

Synopsis

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   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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