Supporting LGBTQIA+Families

Description

‘Breastfeeding, chest feeding and human milk feeding: Supporting LGBTQIA+ families’ provides tailored and practical information on infant human milk feeding for parents and caregivers within the LGBTQIA+ community. It is a collaboration between Rainbow Families NSW and ABA.

It contains:

• How feeding works
• The early days and early weeks
• Relactation and induced lactation
• Surrogacy
• Co-feeding
• Lactating as a transgender or gender-diverse person
• Donor milk
• When feeding from the body doesn’t work out
• Relationships after the baby arrives
• Societal expectations of parenting and feeding roles in the family
• Parent stories
• Support services and resources

Additional information