The lesbian childbearing couple: a case report

Increasing numbers of lesbians are choosing to bear children. Inadequate information about these women's childbearing concerns, together with discrimination and insensitivity to their needs, places these couples at risk for receiving less than optimal health care. Lesbians who desire children are faced with numerous psychosocial problems that should be addressed by open and sensitive caregivers. Providing care to a lesbian couple demonstrated the ways in which their needs were similar to and different from those of heterosexual couples.