Queer and Trans
Parenting Support
There are lots of ways to become a parent as a queer and/or trans person.
Here are a few of the options. Maybe you had the kid from a previous relationship where there were both sperm and ovum available. Or maybe you adopted a kiddo or perhaps you went through the process of fostering a child and there was interest and opportunity to adopt them.
Perhaps you are the new step parent. Maybe you didn’t want kids at all but you fell in love with a someone or someones who had children, and you are trying to make it work.
Maybe you and your chosen family are raising a child who would call all of you their parents.
Perhaps you are struggling with your parent identity as you did not give birth to the child who you parent. You know they are yours fully and completely, but still you struggle emotionally.
Or you haven’t brought any children into your life just yet, but you dream of being a parent someday.
Maybe you are just trying to figure out if you really do want to have children and you want to talk out your reasons for having them or not so much.
Perhaps it’s none of these and yet still there is a sense that something is off. You aren’t quite feeling that things are going as well as you expected them to after you became a parent.
You might be embarrassed and yet, you are starting to see that your partner(s) might be right, you are not feeling okay and you guess that you could benefit from talking about it to someone who gets what it’s like to be a parent and who has been trained in perinatal and postpartum mental health.
Enter, Dr. Abi Weissman (they, them, theirs & she, her, hers), mom of one lovely kiddo and who has been trained to provide support by Postpartum Support international.
Dr. Abi Weissman has attended the introductory and advanced class sequence and looks forward to taking the exam to become certified in perinatal mental health in 2023 or 2024.
