LGBTQ+
Explore fertility and family building options, support, resources, and stories for anyone under the LGBTQ+ rainbow who is trying to grow their family.
LGBTQ+ TTC/Fertility Group
This group is open to anyone under the LGBTQ+ rainbow who are trying to grow their families. It is a partnership between Family Equality, LGBTQ+ Perinatal Wellness Center and AllPaths Family Building. Registration is required via this link.
This group typically meets on alternating Wednesdays.
Voicing Our Truth
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...
Crashing Waves
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...
LGBTQ Routes to Parenthood
“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...
Lesbian and Gay Family Building Using Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART)
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...
The Fertility Rollercoaster: Bringing Our Dreams to Fruition
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,...
Do We Deserve Another IVF Attempt?
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...
Lesbian and Gay Family Building: An RE’s Perspective
We are thrilled that European Sperm Bank USA and Reproductive Medicine Associates of Connecticut (RMACT) have become our newest sponsors and supporters of our LGBT Family Building Outreach Program. RMACT's Medical Director and lead infertility doctor Dr....