Childbearing at the margins: A systematic metasynthesis of sexual and gender diverse childbearing experiences.
Kodiak Ray Sung SoledPaulomi Mimi NilesElise MantellMars DanskyWalter O BocktingMaureen GeorgePublished in: Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) (2022)
Relative to heterosexual and cisgender parents, SGD childbearing parents experience unique structural and interpersonal challenges and employ critically important resilience strategies and coping techniques to manage an overwhelming heterocisnormative experience. These findings provide an important target for health care organizations and professionals to improve SGD perinatal health. In addition, this metasynthesis identified persistent gaps in our understanding of this marginalized childbearing population, which have important implications for reducing health disparities that SGD parents experience.