Queer Pregnancy

Information and resources on lesbian pregnancy, LGBTQ+ people trying to conceive, dealing with miscarriage, IUI, IVF and more.

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Our Birth Story Has Severe Features

Our birth story has everything: preclampsia with severe features, catheters, bloody explosions, ginger ale, nurses from heaven, a birthing ball…

Riese

Apr 8, 2025

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gender

I Wish I’d Medically Transitioned Before Giving Birth

Less than a year after giving birth, I decided to medically transition. I wish I’d done it sooner.

Sage Agee

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Mar 24, 2022

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first person

Hold Us in the Light

The thing about miscarriage is that the word itself does no justice to the great tragedy that it is. There are very few things I know anymore, but I do…

Risa Lichtman

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Dec 17, 2020

queer pregnancy

You Need Help: How Do I Explain Our Sperm Donor to a Five-Year-Old?

This is going to go great, I swear! Here are six tips to get you started.

KaeLyn

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May 5, 2020

queer pregnancy

How These Lesbian Couples Decided to Get Pregnant

For queer couples, deciding to get pregnant often involves a lot of planning, money, and time.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Aug 22, 2019

issues

Ultimate ’90s MRI: A Fertility Playlist

“Musicals? Too weird. My favorite indie band? Too pretentious. Tegan and Sara? Too gay. C’mon, Jennifer, get it together!”

Jennifer B.

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Mar 15, 2019

book lists

What to Read When You’re Queer and Expecting: 6 Parenting Books That Smash The Patriarchy

Unfortunately, most parenting books weren’t written with queer moms, trans dads, non-binary parents and gestational carriers, and families that look like ours in mind.

KaeLyn

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Jan 29, 2019

first person

The Might-Have-Been

I was only pregnant for seven and a half weeks before my miscarriage. There was no body, no breath; there was no measurable part of a lifetime spent together. I’d…

Kristin

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Jan 16, 2019

health

Bearing Life With and Alongside: On Masculinity, Pregnancy, and Medical Trauma

I hadn’t experienced transphobic violence in medicalized form before. But I’d experienced it in many others: in punches and pushes, through threats with weapons, or by being run off the…

Grover Wehman-Brown

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Nov 19, 2018

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Queer Pregnancy

Our Birth Story Has Severe Features

I Wish I’d Medically Transitioned Before Giving Birth

Hold Us in the Light

You Need Help: How Do I Explain Our Sperm Donor to a Five-Year-Old?

How These Lesbian Couples Decided to Get Pregnant

Ultimate ’90s MRI: A Fertility Playlist

What to Read When You’re Queer and Expecting: 6 Parenting Books That Smash The Patriarchy

The Might-Have-Been

Bearing Life With and Alongside: On Masculinity, Pregnancy, and Medical Trauma

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