A Pregnant Man Delivered A Baby

Has it ever occurred in history having a man getting pregnant and delivering a baby? A transgender man called Thomas Beatie actually stunned the world in 2008 as the first pregnant man to conceive out of medical necessity after having undergone a hysterectomy, due to severe endometriosis. Details about the story is revealed in the next page. how it all occurred and the subsequent happenings. This is often an isolating rather than a joyful experience. [nextpagelink][/nextpagelink] His wife, Nancy, had previously undergone a hysterectomy, due to severe endometriosis, so when the couple decided they were ready to become parents, Beatie — a transgender who’d made the female-to-male transition in 2003 — stopped taking his testosterone injections. After suffering an ectopic pregnancy with triplets, Beatie conceived again. This time, the pregnancy was viable: The couple’s first child was born on June 29, 2008. He’s since given birth to two more children. To Beatie, the experience was nothing short of transformative. “How does it feel to be a pregnant man? Incredible,” he wrote in a 2008 essay in The Advocate, a magazine geared toward the gay community. “Despite the fact that my belly is growing with a new life inside me, I am stable and confident being the man that I am.” However, pregnancy wasn’t an entirely positive experience for Beatie, primarily because of the reactions of health-care providers to his nontraditional route to fatherhood. One doctor told Beatie that he had to shave his facial hair, and after consulting with his hospital’s ethics board, decided he wouldn’t treat Beatie, period — after the couple had shelled out thousands of dollars for checkups. [nextpagelink][/nextpagelink] Actually, Beatie has been touted as the “first” pregnant man, he’s actually one of many transgender men who have given birth. “He did a lot for visibility around the topic, but he’s not the first or the only,” said Dr. Juno Obedin-Maliver, a founding member of the Stanford Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Medical Education Research Group. However, “we have no idea how many transgender men are getting pregnant,” she said. "There’s very little for transgender men who are pregnant, where they can get that support and recognition," researchers say. With this experience, the question now arises that "Is pregnancy a necessarily a female experience or more of a human experience ? Only Beatie can can vividly say. Next page for more exciting news. [nextpagelink][/nextpagelink] Last week, Obedin-Maliver and other researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, released a landmark study examining pregnancy in 41 transgender men, all of whom conceived after they’d transitioned. The scientists analyzed the effects of testosterone treatments on self-reported pregnancy outcomes — as it turned out, there were none (although this topic requires more research) — but they also aimed to explore the psychological experience of pregnancy as a transgender male. Not surprisingly, a common theme among the men was feelings of isolation, often for reasons that echoed Beatie’s struggles: a lack of acceptance in their communities and from health care providers. In a much smaller Seattle University study, published earlier this fall in the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health, a group of eight transgender men similarly recalled feeling lonely through every stage of pregnancy, from pre-conception to parenthood — but also felt that they had no other way of becoming a father, since the likelihood of being chosen as an adoptive parent seemed slim. Hear one of the comments of a transgender the next page . [nextpagelink][/nextpagelink] On the flipside, some transgender men reported that pregnancy made them feel more connected to their bodies. It’s not just in the doctor’s office that many transgender fathers-to-be feel uncomfortable. For some, being at ease even in their own skin can be a challenge: In the Seattle University study, a number of the men found it difficult to adjust to their pregnant bodies — as they gained weight in new places, their face shape changed, and their physical strength diminished, they struggled with a sense of loss. Others grappled with the perceived paradox of being male, yet walking around with a baby bump, leading some to grow beards, limit their pregnancy weight gain, or wear oversized clothing — all attempts to avoid what they saw as inevitable judgment. Read more, Check Here: Image Source: Annie Engel/Cultura/Corbis) Image Source : WIN-Images/Corbis