Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Transgender man gives birth following surprise pregnancy – LGBTQ Nation

Henrý Steinn

Henrý Steinn Gay Iceland

We initial know the inspiring story of 19-year-aged Henrý Steinn via Gay Iceland.

Shortly after start life as a male, he unexpectedly discovered out he was pregnant, many thanks to his boyfriend Doddi.

Steinn says he know the news mere months after he started transitioning; a couple of weeks prior to he was scheduled to start taking testosterone.

“I was well in to the consultation,” he says, “and was living as a man yet was concerning a couple of months far from beginning the hormone therapy as quickly as I discovered out I was pregnant.”

“It would certainly most likely have actually been much less most likely for me to fall pregnant after that, yet not impossible.”

He determined he’d postpone on the subject of gender hormone therapy that could possibly potentially impact the baby, continuing to live as male throughout the pregnancy.

“It was a little a shock as quickly as I started suspecting it,” he says, “yet quite quickly I started checking out it as an chance to have actually my very own baby.”

“I felt a little bit nervous concerning telling my consultants concerning the pregnancy yet they were quite supportive; in fact, my psychiatrist owned encouraged me to begin believing concerning whether I preferred to have actually a family, and how.”

He says good health treatment staff were highly sympathetic concerning his special situation.

After 26 hrs of labor, he gave birth to a good health child girl via C-section on the subject of April 13th.

“I’m breastfeeding,” Mr. Steinn reveals, “and will certainly doing this until she and I have actually owned enough, yet I anticipate to return to the consultation for the shift as quickly as possible.”

h/t: Pink News

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