Rainbow Babies!
Have you heard of the term “Rainbow Baby”?
I personally had never heard of it, until we went through a pregnancy loss! We never thought we would go through it, our first pregnancy was pretty straight forward. In 2015 I was pregnant at around 6 weeks of pregnancy, we lost it. Even though I was really early on, it was felt so deep. We were already planning (we learned at 4 weeks that we were expecting), imagining, dreaming… and we lost all of that. Mourning is hard…
This is when I learned the term, Rainbow Baby.
A month after our loss, we were expecting again (I know really fast… it wasn’t planned, but it happened). Kai is our Rainbow Baby (who is now 4 years old).
Rainbow Baby is generally defined as a baby born into a family who has experienced loss in pregnancy (miscarriage), stillborn (still born!) or early childhood. At times families that go through loss don’t know how to manage emotions and find support through a community that have Rainbow Babies.
I’ve had the honor to work with numerous families who’ve experienced loss and it is such a privilege to document families along their journey, sometimes long-awaited journeys!
