Question 9: How does perinatal and reproductive loss affect LGBTQIA+ people’s mental health and decisions about trying to conceive again? What are their experiences of support during perinatal loss, and how can this be improved? By perinatal loss we mean being unable to try to conceive (can’t find a surrogate or donor, can’t afford fertility treatment); not getting pregnant; miscarriage; stillbirth; death of a baby
Question 10: How does where LGBTQIA+ families are in the UK affect their access to reproductive options, and how are their decisions and experiences affected by this?
Question 11: How does the way LGBTQIA+ people got pregnant (home insemination, IUI, IVF with own egg, IVF with someone else’s egg) affect healthcare recommendations (for example, obstetric-led care and induction of labour)? How do these recommendations affect parents and babies?
Question 12: What are LGBTQIA+ people’s experiences of abortion and abortion support in the UK?
Questions 7-12 cover emotional labour, inclusive language, loss, geographical inequalities, risk stratification for pregnancy and labour care, and abortion. To see the limited evidence that is already out there on some of these questions, see bit.ly/PSPevidence #perinatal #lgbtqia #obsky #neosky 2/