LGBTQ Conception, Pregnancy and Parenting Resources

Below are books and support groups that queer parents have found helpful during TTC, pregnancy and the parenting experience. It is by no means a perfect list.

Online Support for Queer Conception, Fertility and Family Building

Maia Midwifery
https://maiamidwifery.com/

PSI Queer & Trans Parent Support Group
https://www.postpartum.net/get-help/psi-online-support-meetings/

Our Family Coalition
Groups for LGBTQ+ Expectant Parents and Trans & Gender NonConforming Parent Support
https://ourfamily.org/family-support/

Books for Parents and Parents to Be:

Queer Conception: Kristin Liam Kali

Your Future Family, Kim Bergman

Mommies, Daddies, Donors, Surrogates, Diane Ehrensaft

Modern Families, Susan Golombok

What’s in a Name: Perspectives from Nonbiological and Nongestational Queer Mothers, Sherri Martin Baron, Raechel Johns, Emily Regan Wills

Rainbow Relatives: Real Stories And Advice On How To Talk To Kids About LGBTQ Plus Families And Friends, Saudi Karatas

Who’s Your Daddy? And Other Writings On Queer Parenting, Rachel Epstein

And Baby Makes More: Known Donors, Queer Parents, And Our Unexpected Families, Goldberg And Brushwood

She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir Of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood, Annie Klempnauer Miller

Confessions Of The Other Mother: Nonbiological Lesbian Moms Tell All, Harlan Alzley

Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?: Confessions Of A Gay Dad, Dan Bucatinsky

Stuck In The Middle With You, Jennifer Finney Boylan

Where’s The Mother? Stories From A Transgender Dad, Trevor Macdonald

Queer Families Photography Books:

Love Makes A Family: Portraits Of Lesbian Gay Bisexual And Transgender Parents And Their Families, Gigi Kaeser And Peggy Gillespie

Dads, Bart Heynen

Books To Read To Young Children:

Happy Together: A Two-Mom Sperm Donation Story, Julie Marie

Happy Together: A Two-Dad Egg Donation And Surrogacy Story, Julie Marie

Mommy, Mama And Me, Leslea Newman

Daddy, Papa And Me, Leslea Newman

Zak’s Safari, Christy Tyner

What Makes A Baby, Cory Silverberg

The Family Book, Todd Parr

Love Makes A Family, Sophie Beer

Books For Adolescent Children:

Families Like Mine: Children Of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is, Abigail Garner

My Two Moms, Zach Wahls

Raised By Unicorns: Stories From People With LGBTQ+ Parents, Frank Lowe