Ocean Dreamer

I’m on several listserves for lesbian moms and women who are TTC.  One of them labeled themselves as being “just for lesbians.”  It was the first one I found and I joined it because I wanted the community, even though I was strongly opposed to the exclusionary policy.  Recently, the listowner received a request from [...]

Last night my Maybe Baby group went to see Andrea Askowitz give a reading from her book My Miserable, Lonely Lesbian Pregnancy.  The reading was at Bailey/Coy, Seattle’s friendly lesbian-owned bookstore.  Askowitz was a single lesbian mom by choice when she got pregnant and had her baby, so I was especially looking forward to her [...]

I have begun to find other LGBTQ single parents (and prospective parents) by choice – first virtually and now in person – and that sense of community has been wonderful.  I started out feeling that there were very, very few of us in this subgroup of a subgroup of a subgroup – and put a [...]

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 [...]

This blog for single queer parents by choice, written by Angela, is chronicling her journey to parenthood (she’s due in a few months – congratulations!)  Its also a great resource for anyone considering the path of single LGBTQ parenthood, as she does an excellent job of expressing many of the experiences and emotions of being [...]

Or so it seems. I am actively involved with Seattle’s group for queer folks who want to have kids, yet I’m the only one who’s single. Aside from this blog, I’ve only found three other blogs about single lesbian mama: “Adventures of a Single Lesbian Mom,” “Soul Bliss,” and “One Mommy … TTC.” [...]

This weekend I watched the very sweet documentary Making Grace, which chronicles the experiences of a lesbian couple, Ann and Leslie, as they try to conceive their first child, a little girl named Grace. After Grace is born, the film follows the two-mom family through her first year of life. Once I got [...]

After several months of waiting to get various health issues in order, I was cleared last week to begin TTC!  I am *so, so, so* excited.  I have chosen a sperm bank and next week have my intake appointment with their nurse – over the phone since they’re based in Cali.  They are lesbian-owned and [...]