by AllPaths Family Building | Apr 25, 2020 | Family Building Story, LGBTQ+
By Kathleen and Melanie “Everything looks good. Your scans all came back clean. You’re young and healthy so I am very optimistic.” Melanie and I started our journey to parenthood in September of 2018. Obviously, our journey included a lot more doctors and appointments...
by AllPaths Family Building | Jun 8, 2015 | Family Building Story, Infertility, LGBTQ+, Support
In the mid 1990s, when I burst from the closet at 16 years old, waving my rainbow flag, I began my long journey out as a LGBTQ person. I was, all at once, alive for the first time in my life. I recall the moment when I finally allowed myself this identity. A weight...
by AllPaths Family Building | Dec 1, 2014 | LGBTQ+
“So, which of you is the real Mom?” This is the kind of question, amongst many others, that LGBTQ families hear when they are out and about with their children, which thankfully is happening in growing numbers, even though the sensitivity of questions has yet to catch...
by AllPaths Family Building | Jul 16, 2014 | ART, IVF, LGBTQ+
Samuel Pang, MD Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist and Fertility Specialist Reproductive Science Center of New England Medical Director and Director, Donor Egg Program Historically, lesbians who have not had children through prior heterosexual relationships...
by AllPaths Family Building | Mar 24, 2014 | Family Building Story, LGBTQ+
By anonymous My partner and I decided we wanted to have a family a long time ago. By the time we made the decision to get started, we had already been together for over ten years. I think after you have been together with someone for at least ten years, some of the...
by AllPaths Family Building | Feb 19, 2014 | Family Building Story, LGBTQ+
By Susan Manning Tink, tink, tink… My nail taps the vial of the trigger shot before I inject it into my wife’s abdomen. The bubbles of air atop the medicine seem to mock the bubbles of anxiety in my stomach. Or maybe they’re bubbles of guilt? Of wonder? Of...
