Baby Making for Everybody: Reading and Q&A with Marea Goodman, LM, CPM

Want to have kids but don’t know where to start? You’ve come to the right place! Join us for a virtual reading and discussion with Marea Goodman, queer millennial midwife, founder of PregnantTogether, and co-author of Baby Making for Everybody.

Together over Zoom, we’ll discuss the winding and glorious LGBTQ+ path to parenthood, answer your burning questions, build community, and empower you with the information you need to get started growing your family.

All are invited to attend this free event, although registration is required. 

Marea’s organization, PregnantTogether, is hosting a special virtual conference in November! Join us November 4–5, 2025 for a two-day event featuring workshops and panels on fertility, legal rights, emotional wellness, and more. Get $5 off by registering with Family Equality’s special link!

Marea Goodman, LM, CPM (they/them) is a licensed midwife who specializes in supporting the LGBTQ+ community throughout conception, pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. They are the co-author of the book, Baby Making for Everybody—Fertility and Family Building for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents, and the founder of PregnantTogether— the (virtual) community supporting queer folks & solo parents from preconception through parenting.

Marea is deeply passionate about empowering people with the information they need and deserve to grow their families, and fighting against the isolation endemic in our culture. Their work has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Autostraddle, USA Today, Huffington Post, ParentaData.org, and others. What they are most proud of is getting to be a parent for their awesome kids.

This inclusive, straightforward guide to fertility is What to Expect Before You’re Expecting for families outside the heterosexual nuclear family model—perfect for LGBTQ+ and solo parents who want to have kids but don’t know where to start. In Baby Making for Everybody, queer millennial midwives Ray Rachlin and Marea Goodman use their professional expertise to demystify the dizzying process of pursuing parenthood as queer and solo people, offering detailed, gender-affirming, body-positive advice on topics including:

The result is a much-needed compassionate step-by-step guide for every aspect of the complicated, messy, and glorious process of building a family. Combining practical information with personal narratives and first-person community wisdom, this book provides prospective parents with the information they need to grow their families.

Order Baby Making for Everybody from your local bookstore today!