Pride In Birth, with Dr Mari Greenfield
Pride in Birth brings together for the first time the academic and medical research about LGBTQ+ people’s experiences of conception, pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period. In each episode, Mari will talk to a different researcher, finding out what question about LGBTQ+ pregnancy they were asking, how they went about finding answers, and what they discovered. Guests include professors, obstetricians, midwives, psychiatrists and academic researchers. The podcast will explain some of the issues LGBTQ+ people face when they start a family, helping to reduce isolation amongst LGBT+ new and expectant parents, and aiming to help those caring for them to improve the services they provide.
Mari works at King’s College, London, as a postdoctoral researcher in perinatal health. She became an academic after a decade of working as a doula and a breastfeeding counsellor, and is passionate using research to improve birthing people’s experiences. Her research interests include birth trauma, perinatal mental health, pregnancy and birth with BMI> 30, and Queer birth. Mari is also a birth parent, a step-parent, and a foster parent
Find Mari on twitter @ResearchDoula
Find Mari on twitter @ResearchDoula
Series 1 – Becoming pregnant
Episode 1, How many babies are we talking about? Fertility rates in sexual minority women, with Professor Catherine Meads. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.14449
Episode 2, How shall we get pregnant? Same sex female couples and fertility clinics, with Professor Susan Bewley. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9121657
Episode 3, What about partners? Lesbian partners’ experiences of fertility clinics, with Bev Turner-Matthews.
Episode 4, How does it work with work? LGBTQ+ conception and employment, with Dr. Krystal Wilkinson.
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/research/research-centres/dwp/projects/complex-fertility-journeys
Episode 5, Isolated and invisible: trans men and non-binary people’s experiences of pregnancy, with Dr. Dean Connolly.
Episode 6, Beyond the Pink Curtain: Polish LGBTQ+ people’s experiences of conceiving, with Professor Joanna Mizielińska https://www.academia.edu/42849841/Negotiations_Between_Possibilities_and_Reality_Reproductive_choices_of_Families_of_Choice_in_Poland
Episode 7, LGBTQ+ people becoming and being pregnant – what I’ve learnt.
Episode 1, How many babies are we talking about? Fertility rates in sexual minority women, with Professor Catherine Meads. https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.14449
Episode 2, How shall we get pregnant? Same sex female couples and fertility clinics, with Professor Susan Bewley. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9121657
Episode 3, What about partners? Lesbian partners’ experiences of fertility clinics, with Bev Turner-Matthews.
Episode 4, How does it work with work? LGBTQ+ conception and employment, with Dr. Krystal Wilkinson.
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/research/research-centres/dwp/projects/complex-fertility-journeys
Episode 5, Isolated and invisible: trans men and non-binary people’s experiences of pregnancy, with Dr. Dean Connolly.
Episode 6, Beyond the Pink Curtain: Polish LGBTQ+ people’s experiences of conceiving, with Professor Joanna Mizielińska https://www.academia.edu/42849841/Negotiations_Between_Possibilities_and_Reality_Reproductive_choices_of_Families_of_Choice_in_Poland
Episode 7, LGBTQ+ people becoming and being pregnant – what I’ve learnt.