EBB 282 - Celebrating "Baby Making for Everybody: A Guide for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents" with Midwife Authors Marea Goodman & Ray Rachlin

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Pregnancy, Health & Fitness, Childbirth, Parenting, Birth, Medicine, Kids & Family, Doula, Obstetrician, Midwife

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Evidence Based Birth

podcast, I talk with Marea Goodman of Restore Midwifery and Ray Rachlin of Refuge Midwifery, all about their work and their new book Baby Making For Everybody- A Guide for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents.

Marea Goodman, CPM, pronouns she/her/they, is the licensed midwife specializing in pregnancy, birth, postpartum and conception care for the LGBTQ+ community. She's the co-author of the new book Baby Making For Everybody- A Guide for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents and the founder of PregnantTogether, an online community for queer people and their allies throughout trying to conceive pregnancy and the postpartum.

Ray Rachlin, she/they, is a licensed midwife, certified professional midwife, author, and founder of Refuge Midwifery. Since 2017, Ray has been providing fertility care, home birth care, and community education throughout the greater Philadelphia area and South Jersey. Ray is also co-author of the book Baby Making For Everybody, which just came out in April 2023. Ray and her family live in West Philadelphia.

Marea and Ray join me to discuss their practices as queer midwives and the work they are doing to make the fields of midwifery, fertility, and reproductive health more inclusive, more transparent, and more accessible to the clients they serve. Through their new book, they have demystified and provide comprehensive education on everything regarding baby making from nutrition to legal matters. Their work is the definition reproductive justice – by inviting more families to be included and safe in this space.

Resources:

· Follow Marea’s work on Instagram @Restore_Midwifery

· Follow Ray’s work @refugemidwifery

· Follow the impact of Marea and Ray’s new book on Instagram @babymakingforeverybody and check for additional information and resources on their blog

· Join the community PregnantTogether and on Instagram

Check out the following books:

· Complete Lesbian Conception Pregnancy Birth.

· Taking Charge Of Your Fertility

For legal information about family formation near you, check out Family Equality here https://www.familyequality.org

For more information and news about Evidence Based Birth, visit www.ebbirth.com.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with Maria of Restore Midwifree and
0:05.2	Ray Racklin of refuge Midwifree all about their work in their new book baby making for
0:10.4	everybody a guide for LGBT-plus and solo parent.
0:14.4	Welcome to the Evidence-Based Birth Podcast.
0:17.4	My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence
0:21.9	Base Birth. Join me each week as we work together. and the founder of Evidence Based Bird.
0:23.0	Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information into the hands of families and professionals around the world.
0:31.0	As a reminder, this information is not medical advice.
0:34.0	See Eviebirth.com slash disclaimer for more details.
0:39.0	Hi everyone, my name is Rebecca Decker,
0:41.0	pronouns she-her and I'll be your host for today's
0:44.0	episode. Just a content note before we get started there will be a discussion of
0:48.6	miscarriage and pregnancy loss. If there are any other detailed content or trigger warnings, we always
0:53.6	post them in the description or show notes that go on with this episode.
0:56.7	And now I'd like to introduce our honored guests. Today I'm so excited to
1:01.3	welcome Midwife Powerhouse team Maria Goodman and Ray Racklin.
1:05.8	Maria Goodman, CPM, pronouns, she, her, they, is a licensed midwife specializing in pregnancy,
1:12.2	birth, post-hardam, and conception care for the
1:14.8	LGBT-plus community.
1:17.3	She is the co-author of the new book, Baby Making for Everybody, a guide for LGBT-Q-plus and solo parents and the founder of
1:24.9	pregnant together an online community for queer people and their allies
1:28.6	throughout trying to conceive pregnancy in the postpartum.
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