How to Make a Baby: Everything LGBTQ+ Families Need to Know about Ivf and Fertility Treatments (Trying to Conceive, Queer Parenting)

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.

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  A comprehensive guide to fertility treatments like artificial insemination, IVF, and frozen embryo transfers, specifically for LGBTQ+ families.

  
  


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  Valuable insights into the emotional, societal, and financial challenges of the fertility journey, including IVF costs and clinic experiences.

  
  


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  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.

We're Allie and Sam, a same-sex couple who has been together for nearly a decade and our story starts on a dating app, like any modern love story.

We started sharing our life online as a way to keep our families updated on our adventures around the globe together, but it quickly became a way to share much-needed queer representation; to showcase that a happy, full life is possible as an out and proud LGBTQ+ person.

We have been blessed with an amazing, engaged online community over our more than six years of sharing our lives on the internet. We have also done public speaking engagements about various LGBTQ+ issues in schools, for non-profits, and for major brands. We live in Nova Scotia.