LGBTQ+ Perinatal care

How do you know you are safe with Leicester Hospital’s Maternity Services?

• We are planning to train staff in LGBTQ+ healthcare needs
• We are writing staff guidelines to help support personalised care for our trans and non-binary community
• We are changing our signs and posters to make them inclusive
• We are adding new sections to your handheld notes so that we can talk about your needs
• We will be asking you what your pronouns are, and you may see staff members wearing badges that tell you theirs
• We are part of the Rainbow Badge scheme. This is a scheme that gives staff a way to show that Leicester Hospitals give open, non-judgemental and inclusive care for people and their families, who identify as LGBTQ+

Useful resources

Books:

• Where is the mother? Trevor MacDonald
• Supporting Queer Birth AJ Silver
• The Natural Mother of the Child Krys Malcolm Belc
• Small: on motherhoods Claire Lynch
• Pregnant and Butch AK Summers
• Queer Conception Kristin L. Kali
• Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories Sara Graefe

Podcasts:

• Pride and Joy Freddy McConnell

Social media:

• Nathantransmidwife – YouTube
• Kayden x Coleman – TikTok
• Fox Fisher – YouTube
• Ash_Bainbridge – Instagram

Articles / Studies:

• Birth Beyond the Binary- AIMS
• He’s Not the Mother- AIMS
• ITEMS survey- LGBT Foundation
• LGBT+ in Britain- Stonewall

Films / TV:

• A Deal With The Universe
• Seahorse
• Our Baby: A Modern Miracle

Emergency signposting:

• LGBTQ+ Staff Network – we can support, signpost, and help you.

Chair emails: jennie.morris@uhl-tr.nhs.uk

Eleanor.Nicholl@uhl-tr.nhs.uk

• MindLine Trans+ – a national telephone support service based in Bristol.

Their hours vary.

• Switchboard – the National LGBTQ+ support line

Contact via phone (10:00-22:00), 0800 0119 100

Email: hello@switchboard.lgbt

Text chat on the website (from 17:30)

• LGBT Foundation

Telephone support during the day and weekends 0345 3 30 30 30

Self referral LGBT Foundation Wellbeing Services

• Galop – the LGBT+ anti-abuse charity

Telephone support for LGBT+ domestic abuse and hate crime 0800 999 5428

Email contacts help@galop.org.uk

• Leicester LGBT Centre

Local centre for support, guidance, and socialising. 0116 254 7412.

• Zoteria – App found on app store, run by Vodafone.

To report hate crime and access relevant support.

If you have any feedback about this page please contact:

Dalvir Kandola (Dalvir.Kandola@uhl-tr.nhs.uk), Consultant Midwife Lead for Inclusivity or Jennie Morris (Jennie.Morris@uhl-tr.nhs.uk), Midwife co-ordinator and LGBTQ+ staff network chair

For further support or to provide feedback about Leicester Hospitals services, please use the following links:

• How to provide feedback about Leicester Hospital’s services
• Birth Reflections Service