Refuge is a Queer and Trans Centered Fertility & Family Building practice
We provide preconception care, home and office IUI, community building, and provider education so every queer person can have an affirming fertility provider in their own community.
Ray Rachlin, LM, CPM
Licensed Midwife & Certified Professional Midwife
Queer Fertility Expert & Author
Ray Rachlin (she/they) LM, CPM, is a midwife, author, queer fertility expert and educator based in Philadelphia who has provided inclusive care through their practice at Refuge since 2017.
Co-author of the groundbreaking book, Babymaking For Everybody: Family Building and Fertility for LBGTQ+ and Solo Parents, Ray’s work has been featured in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Evidenced Based Birth.
Committed to bringing high quality and well informed Queer & Trans fertility care to mainstream healthcare systems, Ray educates health professionals through online courses and in person at institutions including UC Davis, Mainline Health, Vanderbilt, and Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Baby Making for Everybody—Fertility and Family Building for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents by Ray Rachlin & Marea Goodman is a how-to guide and a celebration of the many ways that people create families outside of the traditional heterosexual-nuclear-family model. Combining a step-by-step guide with personal narratives, this book offers prospective parents a blueprint for how to grow their families and to feel supported in the process.
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