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Building Families Through Science and Love
Allie and Sam, widely recognized as "Mommy and Other Mommy," share their emotional and transformative journey to parenthood in How to Make a Baby: Everything LGBTQ+ Families Need to Know About IVF. This inspiring guide is a must-read for LGBTQ+ families navigating artificial insemination, IVF, and other fertility options.
Growing a family as a same-sex couple comes with unique challenges. For Allie and Sam, the path to parenthood was anything but easy. Their story reveals the highs and lows of a three-year journey, involving IUIs, a home insemination, IVF cycles, frozen embryo transfers, and significant financial and emotional investments.
From heartbreak to hope, their journey offers a beacon of guidance. Navigating heteronormative fertility clinics, answering questions about their family dynamic, and overcoming countless obstacles, Allie and Sam show that with determination and love, it's possible to create the family you've dreamed of.
Inside, you'll find:
A comprehensive guide to fertility treatments like artificial insemination, IVF, and frozen embryo transfers, specifically for LGBTQ+ families.
Valuable insights into the emotional, societal, and financial challenges of the fertility journey, including IVF costs and clinic experiences.
Hopeful, practical advice to support your unique path to parenthood and create a more inclusive understanding of lesbian couples and their families.
If you liked It Starts with the Egg, You Got This - IVF Planner and Journal, or Oh Sis, You're Pregnant!, you'll love How to Make a Baby.
Contents
Introduction Trying to Conceive as a Same-Sex Couple
Chapter One Paths to Parenthood: Adoption vs. Fertility Treatments
Chapter Two Finding the Right Fit: Choosing a Fertility Clinic
Chapter Three "Who's the Dad?": Picking a Sperm Donor
Chapter Four Two Ladies Make a Baby: TTC Methods for Same-Sex Couples
Chapter Five Whose Bun in Whose Oven?: Choosing Our Roles
Chapter Six A Date with Wanda: Pre-Pregnancy Testing
Chapter Seven It's Baby Making Time: Our First IUI
Chapter Eight If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again: Our Second and Third IUIs
Chapter Nine Time to Pivot: Transitioning to IVF
Chapter Ten Shots, Shots, Baby: IVF
Chapter Eleven Ovaries the Size of Grapefruit: The Egg Retrieval Process
Chapter Twelve OHSS and Egg Retrieval Results
Chapter Thirteen Transferring a Dream: Our First Embryo Transfer
Chapter Fourteen Continuing to Dream: Our Second Embryo Transfer
Chapter Fifteen DIY Conception: Trying At-Home Insemination
Chapter Sixteen Try, Try Again: Our Third Embryo Transfer
Chapter Seventeen Rainbow Baby: We're Pregnant!
Chapter Eighteen "I'm Sorry, There's No Heartbeat": Experiencing a Missed Miscarriage
Chapter Nineteen A New Direction: Allie's First Embryo Transfer
Chapter Twenty Hope After Heartbreak: We're Finally Expecting
Chapter Twenty-One A Double Rainbow: Pregnant...with Twins
Chapter Twenty-Two Pump It Up: Inducing Lactation
Chapter Twenty-Three The Cost of It All: Financing Fertility Treatments
Closing
Commonly Asked Questions: Two-Mom Edition
Glossary of Fertility Terms
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
