Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
Joint Committee On Health
Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion
Professor Anthony McCarthy:
It is very hard to tell. There were pros and cons. We are all learning. In response to Deputy Ward's question, we are all learning about how to deal with LGBT patients. We are seeing much more of it. We we are seeing our very first patients. We are seeing donor eggs and the complexities around that. We are dealing with patients who are having their babies elsewhere. We are even seeing transgender males, who have not had a hysterectomy yet, who are stopping their treatment to have babies. We have men coming in to have babies. We are learning all the time. On the question of whether there are best practices, we will have to work on them. We are learning all of the time and we are trying to improve our services in that way.
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