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/

COLAGE

https://colage.org/resources

Books for Parents and Parents to Be:

Queer Conception: Kristin Liam Kali

Your Future Family, Kim Bergman

BabyMaking for Everybody: Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents, Marea Goodman

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

And Baby Makes More: Known Donor, Queer Parents, and Our Unexpected Families, Susan Goldberg and Chloe Brushwood Rose

Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ+ Parents, Sadie Epstein Fine and Makeda Zook

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

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:

The Kids: Children of LGBTQ Parents, Gabriela Herman

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