Queer Conception - The Complete Fertility Guide for Queer and Trans Parents-To-Be Book
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RELEASE DATE 31 MAY 2022
Making a baby through love and science?
Get the guidance you need to navigate the conception process with confidence and ease.
The only evidence-based, up-to-date fertility guide for queer people from an experienced health care provider, this is also the first to be transgender inclusive and body-positive. Here, queer prospective parents will find sound advice for navigating complex medical, social and financial decisions.
Trusted fertility midwife Kristin Kali walks you through the baby-making process: creating a timeline; fertile health for every body; preconception tests; identifying ovulation; donors, gamete banks, and surrogacy; methods of insemination including IUI, IVF and reciprocal IVF; navigating early pregnancy; and preparing for infant feeding, including lactation induction for trans women and nongestational parents.
This book is for all LGBTQ+ readers interested in creating family through pregnancy: anyone who identifies as queer, lesbians, gay men, bisexual people, trans and nonbinary people, couples, single parents by choice, poly families, and coparents.
It’s an antidote to a culture and medical system that all too often centres heterosexual couples experiencing infertility while overlooking our unique needs. It also contains sidebars with guidance for reproductive healthcare professionals.
"Packed with answers to questions you probably never even thought to ask, this life-changing book is equal parts practical handbook and sensitively written resource. Highly recommended!”
Toni Weschler, MPH, author of Taking Charge of Your Fertility
“This book is a well-researched, deeply comprehensive (and readable!) guide to building a queer family in a way that works for you.”
Emily Oster, author of Expecting Better
“In Queer Conception, fertility midwife Kristin Kali helps prospective parents navigate a heteronormative system… The book helps readers identify potential donors and surrogates, describes methods of insemination, and prepares new parents for infant feeding, which may include lactation induction for trans women and nongestational parents.”
Publishers Weekly
| Author | Kristin L Kali |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 9781632173980 |
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