Queer Birthworkers of the Bay Area

03/04/2024

Greetings Perinatal Providers!

Do you have clients who are overwhelmed by their growing concerns around the myriad of possibilities throughout the family formation process? Creative arts-based inquiry can help!

I offer a uniquely supportive and effective approach toward understanding and integrating the wide range of perinatal-related emotional and transpersonal experiences inherent to the family formation process. My areas of specialization include preconception planning, fertility and pregnancy challenges, birth options consultation, unanticipated outcomes, postpartum preparation, LGBTQ+ and intentional solo parenting.

For more than twenty years in perinatal wellness counseling and birth care, I have meet with hundreds of hopeful parents-to-be, offering compassionate, insightful, and engaged support.

Clients can schedule a complimentary, 20-minute, introductory call by emailing: DrMLMacLeod@gmail.com

Thanks for sharing!!

01/31/2023

https://transmasculinereproduction.sites.ucsc.edu/

Home Image description: The title reads “A Complete Guide to Transmasculine Reproduction.” Small post it notes with the words “Fertility,” “Pregnancy,” “Postpartum,” “Parenthood,” and “Lactation” are surrounding by imagery of a baby in utero, a needle, a vial of testosterone,...

02/20/2021

https://heluna-health.talentify.io/job/kindred-birth-companion-doula-san-francisco-ca-heluna-health-kindr02577

Kindred Birth Companion Doula at Heluna Health in San Francisco, CA. SisterWeb doulas provide support for pregnant people and families who are Black, Latinx, and Pacific Islander living in San Francisco. These communities often lack access to high-quality, culturally and linguistically congruent dou...

02/17/2020

Brooklyn-based Doula, Morgane Veronique Richardson of Woven, presents:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/supporting-q***r-families-in-birth-postpartum-tickets-91819589865

This 4-hr interactive workshop examines various birth settings and models of care that have historically included/excluded q***r birth.

02/08/2020

Come sing your heart Out for a cause!! Bring your Valentine(s) or show up solo!! Join us tonight for this fab fundraiser for the LGBTQ Perinatal Wellness Center!
https://facebook.com/events/s/karaoke-for-a-cause-lgbtq-peri/473575980255908/?ti=icl

10/08/2019

Join us this Friday !

08/24/2019

06/27/2019

https://missionlocal.org/2019/06/pride-2019-photo-exhibit-highlights-the-beauty-of-q***r-families/.

Dr. Meghan Lewis manages to keep busy. She’s a professional counselor, a doula, a midwife, and the founder of the LGBTQ Perinatal Wellness Center in

05/21/2019

Check out this CNN Travel article announcing the LGBTQ Perinatal Wellness Center’s family-focused Pride events!!

https://lgbtqperinatalwellnesscenter.org/blog/2019/1/16/cnn-pride-beyond-parades

In an article titled ‘Pride beyond parades: How the LGBTQ celebration is enjoyed around the US’, journalist Elizabeth Wallace explores alternative Pride events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.

04/09/2019

This Sunday!

03/29/2019

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shannonkeating/gay-parents-surrogacy-pregnancy-omaha-nebraska-ivf

Matthew Eledge and Elliot Dougherty of Omaha, Nebraska, needed a surrogate to carry their baby. They never expected she would turn out to be Matthew’s mother.

03/16/2019

Greetings Q***r Birthworkers!
Our next gathering is on Wednesday 3/27, 1-2:30PM at the LGBTQ Perinatal Wellness Center, (in the LGBTQ Community Center, 3207 Lakeshore Ave, entrance on Rand Ave). Please PM me if you’re interested in sharing a birthing experience for our informal peer review.

03/16/2019

Just because LGBTQ people may be able to get pregnant doesn't necessarily mean that the world of birth is welcoming to us.

02/21/2019

https://www.ebar.com/news/news//272567

Silicon Valley's new Gender Health Center is now open in San Jose and providing services to transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse patients.

01/19/2019

https://www.facebook.com/508229492590999/posts/2082512761829323?sfns=cl

01/14/2019

https://www.facebook.com/508229492590999/posts/2075491282531471?sfns=cl

The LGBTQ Perinatal Wellness Center is happily hosting the Reproductive Science Center panel “Breaking Barriers, Creating Families” including several of our naturopathic fertility providers. Saturday, February 16th, 10:30AM-1PM. Free. All are welcome! Free.
Preregister here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/breaking-barriers-creating-families-those-with-ovaries-tickets-53821451410

01/09/2019

https://www.autostraddle.com/just-treat-me-like-any-other-mother-what-q***r-affirming-doulas-can-provide-new-lgbt-parents-443304/

For q***r couples already facing marginalization in their lives and relationship before making the decision to become pregnant, the presence of a doula can be profound.

07/25/2018

https://www.facebook.com/508229492590999/posts/1804257689654833/

https://www.facebook.com/donate/191337238215933/