Feb
28
12:30am
Lactation for the Rest of Us: A Guide for Queer and Trans Parents and Helpers--Jacob Engelsman in conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Collins
By Charis Books and More/Charis Circle
Charis welcomes Jacob Engelsman in conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Collins for a discussion of Lactation for the Rest of Us: A Guide for Queer and Trans Parents and Helpers. Finally, a book about lactation not geared exclusively towards cisgender women Lactation for the Rest of Us is an early addition to the literature for queer and trans people who have seen themselves left out of previous informative books on chestfeeding and lactation. This event is co-sponsored by the Feminist Women's Health Center and Southern Fried Queer Pride.
Useful information is included for transmasculine parents, transfeminine parents, non-binary parents, queer parents, helpers, adoptive parents, and even cisgender male parents. Covering the induction of lactation, difficulties one may encounter with chestfeeding, expert advice, and first-person testimonials, this is the book the queer parenting community has been waiting for.
Jacob Engelsman is an IBCLC specializing in lactation support for gender diverse families. He is the author of Lactation for the Rest of Us: A Guide for Queer and Trans Parents and Helpers as well as many talks and articles on how clinicians can better support LGBTQIA+ families.
Dr. Elizabeth Collins has a full-time clinical practice in OB/GYN at Emory Midtown. Her clinical interests are preventative medicine, healthy living through life changes, family planning, and reproductive justice/ advocacy, decreasing maternal morbidity and mortality (especially in patients of color), breastfeeding and postpartum care, and LGBTQIA patient care. She has a growing transgender patient population and while she does not provide hormone management, she does provide well adult exams including chest exams, pap smears, STD testing and management, PReP, and gynecologic surgery. She also sees pregnant patients and GYN surgery consults including for laparoscopic and vaginal hysterectomy, fibroid removal, ovarian cysts, and abnormal bleeding management, to name a few. Learn more about her work.
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