Baby Steps: Common Conception Challenges For The LGBTQ Community || Season 3 Ep. 5

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Relationships, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Marea Goodman, Licensed Midwife, co-author of the book ‘Baby Making for Everybody,’ and founder of Pregnant Together; joins Jordana for a conversation about the LGBT & Solo Parent pregnancy experience. From at-home insemination and breast feeding when both parents can lactate, to understanding the grief that comes with the “non-traditional” conception process, Marea touches on the many ways she provides support and resources to these communities. While access to technology has made pregnancy possible for so many people, Marea discusses the mental and emotional struggles that are unique to these experiences and shares her many resources for navigating the process. For More Information About Queer and Solo Parent Pregnancy, check out: https://community.pregnanttogether.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A quick note before we get into the episode, Oversharing is a podcast for entertainment purposes only.
0:08.5	It is not a medical podcast and does not constitute medical or psychological advice.
0:12.8	Always seek the advice of your physician or mental health professional.
0:15.4	Hello and welcome back to Baby Steps.
0:17.9	I'm Jordana Abraham and I am so excited to have our guest with us today.
0:22.3	Please welcome Maria Goodman. They are a licensed midwife. They're the author of the book
0:26.6	Baby Making for Everybody, Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ Plus and solo parents,
0:32.1	and founder of Pregnant Together, which is a virtual community supporting queer and solo parents
0:36.5	through preconception and
0:37.5	parenting. Welcome.
0:38.7	Thank you, Jordana. Thanks for having me. Of course. I'm so happy to have you on because I know
0:45.5	that, you know, obviously like trying to conceive and like fertility and parenthood and
0:52.8	postpartum as its own challenges.
0:55.0	But I know that there's like additional unique challenges for the LGBTQ plus community.
1:00.9	So I'm like excited for to learn.
1:03.5	Not excited.
1:04.4	Whatever.
1:04.9	I'm interested to learn more about that, more about how you help people navigate
1:10.0	that space.
1:10.6	And I'm sure what's been a
1:12.4	sort of like relatively newer field or newer, you know, like with assisted reproductive technology
1:21.2	and just, you know, more people having access to these treatments, I'm sure it's like all
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