The Essential Guide To Lesbian Conception Pregnancy And Birth

An indispensable book for the growing number of lesbians planning to start a family, this new step-by-step guide covers the physical and emotional aspects from conception right through delivery, providing easy-to-understand charts and illustrations, checklists, groundbreaking fertility information, and personal exercises geared specifically towards lesbians. Comprehensive, practical and inspirational, it will serve as a literary midwife to lesbian mothers everywhere.

This informative reference guide to lesbian conception has been thoroughly revised and updated, ensuring that this book remains the best source for women embarking on this most years of expertise in working with lesbians, single women, and all the many faces of alternative families. She covers the latest information in insemination and fertility technology and presents the most up-to-date information on developments in all areas of conception and pregnancy. 27/10/2005

An indispensable book for the growing number of lesbians planning to start a family, this new step-by-step guide covers the physical and emotional aspects from conception right through delivery, providing easy-to-understand charts and illustrations, checklists, groundbreaking fertility information, and personal exercises geared specifically towards lesbians. Comprehensive, practical and inspirational, it will serve as a literary midwife to lesbian mothers everywhere.

The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians covers everything you need to make the thrilling and challenging journey to motherhood: from choosing a donor to tracking fertility to signing the right papers on the dotted lines. Rachel Pepper's lively, easy-to-read guide is the first place to go for up-to-date information and sage advice on everything from sex in the sixth month to negotiating family roles. Why a second edition? When the acclaimed first edition appeared, the author's daughter was only a few months old. This new edition takes into account the parenting know-how Pepper has developed over the intervening six years, as well as the evolving legal status of lesbian parents, and the increasing importance of the Internet for information on fertility, sperm banks, and donors. The resource section is greatly expanded, as are the sections on each trimester of pregnancy, on childbirth, and on life with a newborn. And Pepper provides more insight into preconception planning for both single lesbians and couples. An indispensable resource, The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians is now bigger and better.

A holistic, lesbian specific approach to pregnancy. Whether you are single or coupled, a lesbian, bisexual or even a heterosexual woman, if you want to get pregnant without a male partner, this book will show you how!

You've decided you want to have a baby.... now what? How do you decide on a donor? Where do you find lesbian pregnancy advice? What artificial insemination technique should you (or do you need to) use? How much is this all going to cost? How do you even get started? What is the best way to get pregnant? There are a lot of different ways lesbians can make a baby. In this practical (and sometimes hilarious) guide, Kathy Borkoski of LesbianConception101.com walks you through your options and helps you decide what is best for your situation. By giving you all the information she and her wife learned over a year of inseminations, ultrasounds, and questions to their patient doctor and lesbian mom friends, she shows you how to get started on your own path to pregnancy. In this how-to guide, you will be given: *** A glossary for all the confusing processes and jargon *** Easy-to-follow steps to get you started *** Questions you should be asking each other to make the tough decisions *** Cost estimates so you can plan for the real expenses of lesbian babymaking *** Stories from real lesbian moms about their journeys Don't waste more time googling and asking around... get the basics and start making your family!

Available for the first time in full color, the up-to-date and authoritative pregnancy guide that has sold 1.5 million copies--by recognizing that "one size fits all" doesn't apply to maternity care Parents love this book because it puts them in control; experts love it because it's based on the latest medical research and recommendations from leading health organizations. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn provides the information and guidance you need to make informed decisions about having a safe and satisfying pregnancy, birth, and postpartum period--decisions that reflect your preferences, priorities, and values. Unlike pregnancy guides that can overwhelm and alarm by telling you up front all the things that can possibly go wrong, this book first describes normal, healthy processes, their typical variations, and the usual care practices for monitoring them. Only then does it cover possible complications and the care practices and procedures for resolving them. Throughout, the presentation is crystal-clear, the tone is reassuring, and the voice is empowering. And the language is inclusive, reflecting today's various family configurations such as single-parent families, blended families formed by second marriages, families with gay and lesbian parents, and families formed by open adoption or surrogacy. From sensible nutrition advice to realistic birth plans, from birth doulas when desired to cesareans when needed, from reducing stress during pregnancy to caring for yourself as well as your baby after birth, this pregnancy guide speaks to today's parents-to-be like no other.

A whimsical and deeply personal account of the author's experience with being a pregnant single lesbian describes her solitary experiences of the joys and travails of pregnancy, her relationships with her liberal parents, and her surprise encounters with kind strangers. Original.