Three Dads and a Baby

Adventures in Modern Parenting

About The Book

As a closeted teen, Ian wondered if he would ever fall in love or be able to live openly with a male partner. Years later, he had not one but two partners in a polyamorous throuple, and the support of family, friends, and coworkers. But something was still missing. Spurred by a friend’s donation of two embryos, Ian, Alan, and Jeremy embarked on a sometimes hilarious, sometimes tearful quest to become parents. Along the way, they faced IVF failures, the threat of Zika virus, a battle at their clinic that forced them into an urgent hunt for a new doctor, pregnancy-threatening bleeds, costly legal battles, and a reluctant superior court judge. Ultimately the grace of women—embryo donors, their egg donor, their surrogate, even a surprise milk donor—allowed them to complete their family with one perfect girl. And in fighting for their family, they became the first polyamorous family ever named as the legal parents of a child.

About The Author

Ian Jenkins, MD, is a hospital medicine doctor, patient safety specialist, and professor at the University of California, San Diego, but he is most proud of his unique family. Ian lives in a “throuple,” or polyamorous triad, with his two partners, Alan and Jeremy. Thanks to the generosity of five amazing women, they’re blessed with two wonderful children—the first kids in the world to have a poly family as their legal parents.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Cleis Press (March 9, 2021)
  • Length: 286 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781627785228

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