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Discovery Health has a new documentary featuring a lesbian family! Its called “Quads with 2 Moms” and features a lesbian couple from California who each get pregnant with twins at the same time. The babies are full blood siblings, since they share the same sperm donor and all come from eggs from one of the mothers. I loved seeing a real lesbian family on TV – not some Hollywood version of our lives, but the real deal. My first reaction besides that? Those two women look a *lot* alike.

The women gave birth one day apart, in different hospitals, since they each had different health insurance plans. This clearly really bothered them, as they both had C-Sections so were in the hospital for several days, apart from their partner and two of the four babies. I wondered how many straight people watching the show would wonder why on earth these two women had different health plans. Would they realize that it’s often difficult to get a same sex partner covered on a company health plan? Or would they not even notice?

If you have the opportunity to watch the show, I definitely recommend it. Being that its Discovery Health, the focus was primarily on the women’s labor and delivery process – with only a small focus on their day-to-day life with infant quads (plus a preteen daughter). I’d love to see them make a follow-up where they show the family’s daily life experiences: like a Jon & Kate Plus 8 for the queer set. That would be great.

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