Supporting Queer Birth: A Book for Birth Professionals and Parents

by AJ Silver

Overview

Bringing together the stories and experiences of LGBT+ parents as well as professionals in the field, this guide explains what healthcare and birth workers can do to improve care for their clients. It broadens the ability to understand those who birth and parent beyond the heteronormative and cisgender binary.

Covering topics such as LGBT+ and neurodiversity, surrogacy and lactation, as well as including interviews from Jake Graf, Freddy McConnell and Sabia Wade, AJ Silver brings to light the failures of the maternity system for LGBT+ parents and discusses how these mistakes can be avoided.

A compelling, educational, and motivational book, Supporting Queer Birth is essential reading for birth workers and healthcare professionals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781839970450
Publisher:	Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date:	04/21/2022
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	823,627
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

AJ Silver is a birth and postnatal doula, trained with Badass Doulas, Abuela Doulas and Red Tent Doulas. They are also a qualified Babywearing consultant. AJ has worked in the birth and baby world for almost a decade, cementing themselves as expert in their field in the UK.

AJ created the Queer Birth Club, the UK's only LGBT+ competency workshop for those working in the birth world. They have delivered workshops to NHS trusts, universities, doula training schools, hypnobirthing schools, lactation consultants and more.

Table of Contents

Preface. 1. Alphabet Soup. 2. Minoritized LGBT+ Folks. 3. LGBT+ and Neurodiversity. 5. How did you even get pregnant anyway? 6. Risk. 7. Perinatal Mental Health. 8. Lactation. 9. We Actually Exist. 10. Sperm Donation/IVF. Conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

There is so much to learn from AJ's book. They have packed it full of information, and all of it accessible. Each read brought me to new revelations and reflections, not only with my own practice but with what I teach and how. One to return to, continually.

Mars Lord