LGBTQ+ Pregnancy & Parenting Program
Guidance and Community
LGBTQ+ Pregnancy & Parenting Program
Navigate pregnancy, prepare for birth, and welcome your newborn fully prepared for what lies ahead. Form connections with queer parents of all genders and family structures with babies due at the same time. Create a sense of solidarity and build resilience for navigating the transition to parenthood. This program is created and guided by Liam Kali, seasoned midwife and queer elder, with three decades experience in the childbirth professions. A parent of four grown children, Liam has attended over 600 births and assisted well over a thousand families with prenatal care, childbirth preparation, lactation support and postpartum adjustment. Liam offers an evidence-based clinical perspective, supports all birth choices, and provides well-honed group facilitation skills.
Build your queer family's circle of support under the guidance of author, parent, queer elder, trans midwife, and seasoned childbirth professional Liam Kali, LM
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
"We are SO GRATEFUL for this group!"
"Liam's timely and succinct pearls of wisdom have been crucial to our experience of this pregnancy."
"I so appreciated being able to text the group and get support in real time."
"Our meetings are always the highlight of my week!"
"This group showed us what we actually deserve as queer parents, so when we are in spaces where we are not seen, we don't buy into it."
"It was been truly meaningful to develop these relationships and watch them deepen over time - I feel so held by this group."
PROGRAM DETAILS
Available no matter where you live, this comprehensive, year-long program provides instruction, guidance, and facilitated peer support for navigating pregnancy and the 4th trimester. Each cohort is organized by due date with a maximum 10 families. Meetings happen on Zoom twice each month, plus a weekend childbirth class intensive. Cost per family is monthly payments of $150.
Sign up in your FIRST TRIMESTER to access the complete program! Questions? Email us.
PROGRAM CONTENT
At each 2-hour evening meeting, we check in on physical and mental/emotional health, have an open Q&A session, take a short break, and cover a scheduled topic which may be instruction or facilitated discussion. We close each meeting with a gratitude share. Once babies are born, we take a group photo each session to see how the babies grow!
Learning & Discussion Topics:
- Conception Stories
- Building Your Care Team
- Non-Gestational Pregnancy
- Blood Sugar in Pregnancy
- Gender Identity & Pregnancy
- Living in a Pregnant Body
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Postpartum Planning
- Surviving 3rd Trimester
- Healing After Birth
- Sharing Your Birth Story
- Attachment Relationships
- Infant Sleep
- Queering Biology
- Navigating Extended Families
- Coparenting
- Infant Development
- Balancing Work and Family
- Affirmations of Family
- Playing & Starting Solid Foods
- Community Appreciation
CHILDBIRTH CLASS
The Childbirth Class is INCLUDED in the Pregnancy & Parenting Program. It is typically held on two weekend days from 10am to 4pm Pacific. We honor and support all birth options including hospital birth with epidural, home or birth center birth, and cesarean birth.
At the bonus Lactation & Infant Latch Class, learn what you really need to know for the early days of feeding a newborn with human milk.
Topics include:
- How babies get out
- Hormones of labor
- Coping techniques for labor
- Pain medications for labor
- Positions for labor
- Providing support in labor
- Being a birth partner
- Decision making in labor
- Epidural placement
- Cesarean birth
- Immediate postpartum
- Lactation + infant latch
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I join the Program if I don’t live in Seattle?
You can participate in our programs no matter where you live - everything is held online!
Is there a deadline to sign up for the LGBTQ+ Pregnancy & Parenting Program?
We arrange each group based on due dates, and we max each group at 10 families. Sign up in first trimester to make sure you you get in!
Visit our FAQ to find answers to more of our commonly asked questions
Liam has the experience to address issues specific to queer families of all sorts. It’s not just about using neutral pronouns and terms (like “birth parent” instead of “mom”). They really understand the complexities of queer families, whether it’s specifics like co-nursing or broader issues like emotional dynamics. It’s also great to be in a room full of queer folks who understand my experience, so I feel like my queer specific questions are adding to the group’s experience rather than distracting or pulling the class off on a tangent.