These Photos of Pregnant Men Will Change How You Think About Pregnancy

Scientific discovery changes the face of medicine every day. Meanwhile, the ways in which society understands gender identity is evolving just as rapidly. As a result of both, stories of pregnant men are more common and less surprising.

So take a look at these pregnant men. Because they’re changing what a family can look like…

Kaci Sullivan

Wisconsin-based artist Kaci Sullivan gave birth as both genders. His first child, Grayson, was born before Sullivan began transitioning. Phoenix, born Nov. 11, 2017, came after Sullivan’s transition.

The pregnancy occurred with Sullivan’s partner Steven when Sullivan briefly stopped taking male hormones for health reasons.

The Artist’s Way

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Sullivan runs the TransLiberation Art Coalition, an activist art collective that tackles issues of gender identity. Though he was born biologically female, he never felt right in his skin until he transitioned.

“I was always an anxious kid who felt intuitively disconnected from myself and in my dreams I was always a boy,” he told the Daily Mail.

“I felt like a ton of bricks had been lifted off my chest when I admitted it to myself.”

Chris Rehs-Dupin

Chris Rehs-Dupin and his wife Amy live in Colombus, OH. When the couple first tried having children with Amy receiving “intrauterine insemination – fertility treatment that involves placing sperm inside a uterus to facilitate fertilisation”, they had no luck.

So, the pre-op Chris offered to carry the child himself.

Pregnant Pause

“When Chris was pregnant it was really difficult, because I always thought I would be the one to carry our children,” admitted Amy.

“It was definitely a strain and it was difficult.” Chris agreed: “Being pregnant is such a female thing and that’s when I started to question that it was not what I was.” After Chris gave birth to Hayden on Dec.

20, 2014, Amy carried their next child, Milo, succesfully.