‘This baby was meant to be ours’: A gay uple’s journey to bee parents - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• GAY COUPLE WHO WENT VIRAL FOR TRADNAL HDU WEDDG EXPECTG THEIR FIRST CHILD
• DID A GAY COUPLE 'CELEBRATE THE WORLD'S FIRST ANAL BIRTH'?
• GAY UPLE AM SHAH AND ADYA MADIRAJU EXPECTG THEIR FIRST CHILD
•  TRANSGENR MAN MISRRIAGE GIV BIRTH BABY BOY GAY HBAND AMAZG EXPERIENCE
• CAN TWO MEN HAVE A BABY? GAY PARENTG OPTNS
• FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
• ‘THIS BABY WAS MEANT TO BE OURS’: A GAY UPLE’S JOURNEY TO BEE PARENTS
• FERTILY TREATMENT FOR GAY COUPL / SAME-SEX MALE COUPL
• GAY UPLE WH BABY PHOTOS STOCK & D IMAG
• BABY GAY

GAY COUPLE WHO WENT VIRAL FOR TRADNAL HDU WEDDG EXPECTG THEIR FIRST CHILD

As their ltle one grows, 's Am's hope that "we won't be talkg about gay upl like we do now.

"We won't be gay parents, we'll jt be parents, " Adya adds. Indian-Amerin Gay Couple Expectg Their First Baby.

DID A GAY COUPLE 'CELEBRATE THE WORLD'S FIRST ANAL BIRTH'?

"We won't be gay parents, we'll jt be parents, " said Madiraju.

GAY UPLE AM SHAH AND ADYA MADIRAJU EXPECTG THEIR FIRST CHILD

Suggted Readg: Separated By Parents, Uned By Kerala HC: How This Gay Couple Broke Norms. A gay or transgenr person’s optns for parentg clu:.

 TRANSGENR MAN MISRRIAGE GIV BIRTH BABY BOY GAY HBAND AMAZG EXPERIENCE

Or, let’s say we have a gay cisgenr uple, Alex and Zack.

CAN TWO MEN HAVE A BABY? GAY PARENTG OPTNS

Others may be ncerned that sgle men or gay male upl would have a harr time adoptg jt bee they are men, but this may not be te.

“For gay male sgl/upl, we have particularly easier the matchg procs, as there is no other mom 'replacg' the child’s birth mother and often get chosen quicker. New Delhi: Indian-Amerin gay uple, Am Shah and Adya Madiraju, who took the ter by storm by their grand Hdu weddg New Jersey 2019, are expectg their first child due May. "We won't be gay parents, we'll jt be parents, " Adya add.

Gay upl expectg first baby. Gay upl Baby.

FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED

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This is the man's first blogil child whom he had wh his gay hband. This is thanks large part to the growg number of adoptn and surrogacy optns available to gay upl today, pared to what was available a ago.

Other optns for gay upl clu adoptn and foster re.

‘THIS BABY WAS MEANT TO BE OURS’: A GAY UPLE’S JOURNEY TO BEE PARENTS

And for gay upl, surrogacy mak that dream a realy. However, is still not possible for a gay uple to have a child g DNA om both fathers. Am Shah pictured wh Adya Madiraju durg the uple's tradnal Hdu weddg New Jersey 2019 | Picture urty: @am_aatma/InstagramKEY HIGHLIGHTSTheir Di weddg ma a splash uple heard the good news after four rounds of -vro the LGBTQ muny have sce thanked the uple for spirg Indian Amerin gay uple whose tradnal Hdu weddg broke the ter 2019, are now expectg their first child Shah is a Gujarati Amerin om New Jersey who got married to Adya Madiraju, a Telugu man born New Delhi, his uple has e a long way learng about the nty-grti of havg blogil children sce their mega-viral unn — acrdg to People magaze, which shared photos om their paterny unrstandg the difference between surrogat, egg donors and gtatnal rriers to fally havg a succsful -vro fertilisatn their fourth round, Am and Adya have some life-changg curveballs thrown they way — cludg learng that havg a baby is far more expensive realy for a same-sex uple than heterosexual parents.

FERTILY TREATMENT FOR GAY COUPL / SAME-SEX MALE COUPL

“We won't be talkg about gay upl like we do now. Do you ever hear doubts om patients about havg children while a gay relatnship?

But for gay men, this procs is plited and expensive. The procs tak about two years and sts around $200, 000 per child - and prospective gay fathers don't meet eligibily creria for most health surance plans' fertily benefs, although this is begng to change. Brent Monsr, MD, recently helped lead a study to document tails of how gay men e assisted reproductive technology to build their fai, cludg qutns such as how many children they wish to have and how often their efforts succeed.

As a gay person growg up a nservative environment, this was a challenge I thought about.

GAY UPLE WH BABY PHOTOS STOCK & D IMAG

I asked them how I uld start a fay as a gay man. We don't take re of gay men... Your paper giv historil ntext for how shiftg attus toward LGBTQ fai have changed the climate for gay men who want to bee fathers.

There has been a lot of foc the scientific lerature on whether children turn out OK if they have gay parents. A gay uple New York State recently sued, sayg those creria are discrimatory.

Why is important for the experienc of gay men seekg fertily re to be reflected the scientific lerature? Cisgenr gay men are almost never clud this rearch, so as physicians we don't know anythg about their characteristics as reproductive health patients, even basic rmatn such as their mographics, clil cisn-makg patterns or out.

BABY GAY

Our paper ed data om one of the very few fertily benef pani that do offer fertily verage to gay men. That gave a wdow to a natnal group of 119 cisgenr men, cludg five sgle men and 57 gay upl, who uniquely had fertily benefs. It's important to keep md that our data reflect the experienc of dividuals who n afford reproductive medil re bee their employer-sponsored fertily benefs ver , and that is still an unual suatn for gay men.

This data served as the foundatn for a grant applitn we've jt had approved to nduct a much larger populatn study that will give accs to rmatn on about 2, 000 embryo transfers annually gay men.

A lot of people see a fertily doctor bee they have an unrlyg medil issue, whereas gay male upl ually have two possible sperm sourc, a young egg donor and a gtatnal rrier who has already had succsful pregnanci. I thk that, bee of the medil factors, birth rat for gay upl uld serve as a morn standard for evaluatg the succs of IVF labs. We regnize that this may be bee a lot of gay men requt tws or may ultimately want two children, and fertily doctors may be transferrg two embryos to try to save their patients money so they only have to go through the fertily treatment procs once.