Queer families, rising infertility, choosing to go it alone or not at all – the landscape of baby-making is shifting. Amelia Abraham meets a fertility coach to help make up her mind – well, almost
‘It occurs to me that I have dismissed parenting as something straight people do, a process that comes with a blueprint. Yet there might be queer ways of parenting’: Amelia Abraham.‘It occurs to me that I have dismissed parenting as something straight people do, a process that comes with a blueprint. Yet there might be queer ways of parenting’: Amelia Abraham.t started playfully: silly baby names; jokes about sperm donors. Then it became real: a deadline of two years issued by my partner.
There’s been a rise in independent coaches as part of the growing “proactive fertility industry” around today’s shifting fertility landscape. An article I read on the “girlbosses of fertility” – coaches in the US charge $7,000 for a consultation course – raised some initial scepticism. Still, I quickly found coaches in the UK to be more affordable and less formidable. Several trained to become coaches after going through their own complicated fertility journeys, Karen is one such coach.
Yemi finds that her clients experience stigma around infertility, even though the number of women from a BAME background undertaking fertility treatment in the UK has increased over the past five years by 20.6%. “It comes from cultural expectations affiliated with procreation, especially when you are married,” she says. In some instances, Yemi has coached women who have not told their family they are undergoing IVF, because there is religious belief that this mode of conception is not “natural”.
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