The Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy,
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Book Description
The first book of its kind, The Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth delivers on the promise of its title. It is a step-by-step guide to the physical and emotional aspects of conception through delivery, providing easy-to-understand charts and illustrations, checklists, groundbreaking fertility information, and personal exercises geared specifically toward lesbians. Reflecting the unique experience of lesbian mothers in a manner never before addressed, The Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth is both practical, providing lesbians with everything they need to know to become mothers, and inspirational, addressing the social issues surrounding lesbian pregnancy in an empowering manner. Comprehensive and indispensable, this book will serve as a literary midwife to the growing number of lesbian mothers.
Features:
Resource guides to fertility centers and informaton
Resource guides to legal and medical information
Sample medical and legal forms and contracts
Fertility charts
Nutritional charts
Glossary
Marketing Plans:
o Awareness campaigns to fertility clinics and midwiveries
o Awareness campaigns to gay and lesbian community centers and health clinics
o National advertising: The Advocate, Out, Alternative Family Magazine
Stephanie Brill and Kim Toevs run and serve as midwives for Maia Midwifery, and they are faculty instructors for the Midwifery Institute of California. Members of the California Association of Midwives, and the Midwives Alliance of North America, they make their home in Berkeley, California.
About the Author
Kim Toevs is the co-founder of Maia Midwifery and Preconception Services in Berkeley, Calif., which has achieved national recognition by helping thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered individuals with every aspect of creating a family. She now lives in Portland, Ore., where she works in the field of HIV prevention and public health.
The Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy,
The Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy,,Kim Toevs,Stephanie Brill,Alyson Books,1555836267,Family / Parenting / Childbirth,Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction,General,Lesbian Studies,Pregnancy & Childbirth,Social Science,Women's Studies - General,Pregnancy, birth & baby care,Social Science / Lesbian Studies
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