by QP Admin | Dec 3, 2022 | LGBT Family, Queer Families, Queer Stories
My wife and I had chatted extensively about creating our family. We were both going to do reciprocal IVF. What that means is that one of my eggs would be removed from my body, fertilised and put into my wife’s uterus and vice versa. We had done lots of research and we...
by QP Admin | Nov 10, 2022 | LGBT Family, New Family, Queer Families, Queer Stories
I always knew I wanted to be a mummaI am J, living in South West England with my wife N and our 2 beautiful girls.I always knew I wanted to be a mumma, we began our fertility journey in 2015 with a visit to our local fertility clinic’s open evening, it was mind...
by QP Admin | Aug 5, 2022 | LGBT Family, Queer Families, Queer Stories
My wife and I were high school sweethearts. We were both educated under the thumb of Section 28 and we both endured homophobic abuse. We knew that we wanted to get married and have children but we couldn’t see a future where that would be possible. We fought through...
by QP Admin | Oct 21, 2021 | LGBT Adoption, LGBT Family, Queer Families, Queer Stories
National Adoption Week 2021 – E and A I had gone through three cycles of IVF in a previous relationship but, unfortunately, I had two negative rounds and one that led to a medical miscarriage. When that relationship broke down and I then met A, conversations...
by QP Admin | Aug 5, 2021 | LGBT Family, New Family, Queer Families, Queer Stories
This is a series blog about how our journey to creating a family began, how we decided to bring children into our family. Why we choose the path of child birth rather then adoption. As well as transitioning not letting this stop us. Firstly I will introduce us....