Lactation for the Rest of Us: a Guide for Queer and Trans and Parents and Helpers

Jacob Engelsman's, Lactation for the Rest of Us: a Guide for Queer and Trans and Parents and Helpers, was released by Jessica Kingsley Publishers earlier this year.

This book is written to be, on the one hand, a modern lactation guide providing basic information which all parents will benefit from. On the other hand, it is a guide with information that specifically benefits members of the LGBTQIA+ communities.This information is arranged in an FAQ format with each question listed in the table of contents, making specific points of interest easy for readers to find and enabling them to skip over that which is not relevant to their personal situation.

Jacob has interviewed an assortment of other professionals who offer their own points of view on certain topics and occasionally explain things outside his own area of expertise as well as their own lactation stories. There are also case studies of parents whose lived experiences elaborate on the technical information Jacob provides. Most of these regard inducing lactation, and while you might be tempted to think the stories would become repetitive in fact they all have very different outcomes.

At a time when LGBTQI+ health has been under attack, here is a new book that centers bodily autonomy, health equity, and reproductive justice for all.

Author Jacob Engelsman