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.