Queer Pregnancy Archives

Should I Cut My Maternity Leave Short To Help My Coworkers?

Your wife thinks your maternity leave plan is “crazy.” Also, how to navigate potential imbalances in a slightly open relationship.

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Jul 25, 2025

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Our Birth Story Has Severe Features

Our birth story has everything: preclampsia with severe features, catheters, bloody explosions, ginger ale, nurses from heaven, a birthing ball used as a chair and the eventual debut of a…

Riese

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Apr 8, 2025

Public health nurse Dora Rust-D'Eye teaches special prenatal class for single mothers. One in every 11 babies born to single mom.

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The Best Laid Birth Plans

Sometimes you don’t know what you don’t know until you know it — and if there’s anything I can say about our little Prenatal Birth & Labor class, it is…

Riese

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Feb 5, 2025

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Fixing the Window

“If I’d made it this far into the pregnancy without being forced to face the reality that has inspired many of my generation to forego reproduction altogether, I could do…

Riese

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Jan 22, 2025

me and gretchen before the baby shower in the mirror

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And I Feel God At This Baby Shower Tonight

“When it comes to baby showers, my wife was pretty certain about what she wanted: not to have one.”

Riese

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Jan 8, 2025

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Allegedly Essential Baby Products, Looking for Gays On The Baby App and Surveillance Anxiety

Of the many allegedly essential items we must procure for our baby — how many are actually essential and why do I feel so weird about surveillance products? Also: trying…

Riese

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Dec 17, 2024

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Telling Chosen Family, Bonding With Heterosexuals and a Lot of Dog Feelings

When do you start telling people that you’re pregnant and how should you do it? Is pregnancy the great equalizer when it comes to the straight family gaze? Do unborn…

Riese

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Dec 3, 2024

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How We Got Gay Pregnant

My wife and I are having a baby and this is the first edition of Baby Steps, a column about the gestation and eventual birth of this human child who…

Riese

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Nov 19, 2024

a specimen jar of sperm floats over a blue background where two women sit uncomfortably

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I’m Scared About My Wife Using Her Ex-Boyfriend as Our Sperm Donor

Sperm is expensive and you don’t know many “good” men — but you do know one…your wife’s ex. Plus advice on discussing money and mis-matched incomes with friends.

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May 21, 2024