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Queer Mama

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VIDEO: Queer Mama for Autostraddle Episode Eleven — My Birth Story Wasn’t At All What I Expected

“The moment I met my child for the first time was nothing like I imagined it would be.”

By haley|November 19, 2015|46 Comments
Youth + Family

Queer Mama: Welcome to the World, Juniper Jude!

Congrats, Haley and Simone! Have a peek into Juniper Jude’s first few weeks on our big green earth with her mama and monie!

By KaeLyn|September 17, 2015|28 Comments
Youth + Family

VIDEO: Queer Mama for Autostraddle Episode Ten — Third Trimester

“Y’all, I managed not to cry in this third trimester video, but here I am now, writing, tears rolling down my face at my desk, just a few feet away from our new rocking chair where I plan to spend hours nursing my baby.”

By haley|August 20, 2015|20 Comments
Youth + Family

VIDEO: Queer Mama for Autostraddle Episode Nine — Our Kid Doesn’t Have Two Moms

So what will Tiny call Simone?

By haley|August 6, 2015|59 Comments
Youth + Family

VIDEO: Queer Mama for Autostraddle Episode Eight — The Baby Shower

“I started looking at lists of what a baby “needs,” and, despite my supposed desire to raise my children with nothing more than a bearskin rug and my bare breasts, I started thinking maybe there were just a few things that might come in handy once the baby arrives…”

By haley|July 23, 2015|33 Comments
Youth + Family

VIDEO: Queer Mama for Autostraddle Episode Seven — Help Name Our Baby!

No, seriously.

By haley|July 9, 2015|396 Comments
Youth + Family

VIDEO: Queer Mama for Autostraddle Episode Six — Finding Out the Sex

“It wasn’t until after I heard confirmation from the doctor that our baby did in fact look healthy and well, until after I wiped the gel off my stomach and pulled my shirt back down — until I got outside even, on the way to our car — that it really sunk in. I was having a ****. I am having a ****.”

By haley|June 25, 2015|43 Comments
Youth + Family

VIDEO: Queer Mama for Autostraddle Episode Five – I Want To Be Pregnant Forever!

“I actually felt like the earth mother goddess I had envisioned becoming. I decided I wanted to be pregnant forever.”

By haley|June 11, 2015|28 Comments
Youth + Family

VIDEO! Queer Mama Interviews +one: They Want To Help You Get Pregnant

+one, a new integrated product and platform that helps lesbian couples conceive, is poised to fill a serious void for us in terms of resources, materials, and peer-to-peer support.

By haley|June 8, 2015|13 Comments
Youth + Family

VIDEO: Queer Mama for Autostraddle Episode Four — First Trimester Realness

Fatigue, nausea, boobs like bowling balls, mood swings, the sweetest moments you keep to yourself, and so much more. It’s the first trimester and wow it’s a roller coaster!

By haley|May 21, 2015|16 Comments
Youth + Family

VIDEO: Queer Mama for Autostraddle Episode Three — Let’s Go Sperm Shopping!

“I kept having this ridiculous vision of, say, five years down the line being at a filmmaker meet up, looking across the room and recognizing my child in a stranger’s face, being like holy shit, I think that’s our donor. It’s a little absurd, I know, but San Francisco is a pretty small town!”

By haley|May 7, 2015|41 Comments
Youth + Family

VIDEO: Queer Mama Episode Two — How We Got Knocked Up

“There were good reasons we hadn’t started trying. But the bigger reason, which came out right there in a flood on cobblestones in the French Quarter, was that Simone wanted me to carry her baby, and that was maybe going to be impossible to achieve.”

By haley|April 23, 2015|49 Comments
Youth + Family

VIDEO: Queer Mama Episode One — Meet Haley and Simone!

“But no matter what, I’ve always, always, always known that I would be a parent. I’ve always wanted to have a baby. Actually babies, plural. Lots of them. One miscarriage, four embryos, dozens of pee sticks, 18 months, and approximately 132 injections later, I’m 18 weeks pregnant!”

By haley|April 9, 2015|117 Comments

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