Thanks to Terrance at Republic of T for his serendipitous sighting of an ad for Quads with Two Moms, which will air tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern on Discovery Health as part of their Baby Week coverage.
I wrote back in March about another lesbian couple who had quads. In that story, one woman carried all four at once. The couple portrayed on the show tonight went about it a little differently, implanting embryos in both women, who then each bore twins. They already had a ten-year-old daughter, whom one of them had from a previous opposite-sex marriage.
I’m not sure what would be more difficult: carrying quads or dealing with a partner when we were both hormonal from twins. Yes, I realize that’s a silly question; both ways are hard, and carrying a single baby is no walk in the park, either.
It’s great to see yet another way we create our families, though. Kudos to the Discovery Channel for including lesbian moms in their Baby Week. (And because the ultra-right is bound to criticize them for doing so, here is their Viewer Relations page so you can send them a note of support.)
UPDATE: I just realized that the filmmaker, Shannon O’Rourke, also made the documentary Maybe Baby, about single women choosing to become mothers. It’s not about lesbian moms per se, although one of the woman profiled is a lesbian, but it explores issues of “alternative” parenting and assisted reproduction that many of us will appreciate.
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