Baby Making for Everybody, Marea Goodman, LM, CPM
Baby Making for Everybody, Marea Goodman, LM, CPM
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Baby Making for Everybody
Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents

Author: Marea Goodman, LM, CPM, Ray Rachlin, LM, CPM

Narrator: Susan Bennett

Unabridged: 9 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Balance

Published: 04/25/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


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.
 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lizzie on April 24, 2024

Such a wonderful resource! Highly recommended for anyone approaching family building without any of the necessary gametes (for whatever reason!) and for anyone who works in the fields of reproductive health and fertility. This was comforting, inclusive, and straightforward. I feel so much more prepa......more

Goodreads review by Maggie on November 25, 2023

Wow - I really loved this book! I think the authors really did what they set out to do. It was so deeply refreshing and energizing to conceptualize family building in terms that described me and my close beloveds and queer family. It was thoughtfully put together, SO informative, and honestly inspiri......more

Goodreads review by Emma on June 13, 2023

Informative, inclusive, empowering, gentle.......more

Goodreads review by Gabriella on January 27, 2024

I highly recommend this book for anyone not in a hetero couple who is looking to learn more about what the fertility and parenthood process looks like for queer and “non-traditional” couples/solo parents. This book was so inclusive, empowering, and validating. I wanted to read this book to start exp......more

Goodreads review by Patricia on April 10, 2023

So, I must admit I assumed this was an informal educational book for children- like a picture book for kids to understand that not all families look one certain way- so, imagine my shock when I realized that it wouldn’t be my kids reviewing it, but myself. I’m a doula, and I try to continue to educat......more