Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd Supporting Queer Birth

Educating birth workers, this guide shows how to care for LGBT+ parents in a world that centres around heteronormative couples. It brings together the stories and experiences of a variety of LGBT+ parents and explains what health care professionals and birth workers can do to ensure better care and experiences for their clients. The author has also collected stories, case studies and interviews from fellow doulas and LGBT+ parents to show the reader real-life examples of how the maternity system is set up to fail them from the start, and discusses how these failures and mistakes can be avoided. ...