Today is National Rainbow Baby Day

 oday is National Rainbow Baby Day 

A rainbow baby is a baby born after loss. After miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss. They are the ray of light that comes after the darkest storm.

But here’s the truth no one prepares you for: joy and grief can live side by side. Holding your rainbow doesn’t erase the pain of the baby you lost. It doesn’t fill the space that will always be missing. But it does remind you that love shows up again, in a new and powerful way.

I think about the promises I’d make to my rainbow baby.
I promise I will always love you.
I promise you won’t live in the shadow of your sibling.
I promise to teach you about them, so you’ll always know you weren’t the start of my motherhood, just the continuation of it.
I promise to savor the moments with you, even the small ones.
I promise that being a rainbow baby won’t be your only identity you are your own whole, beautiful self.
And I promise you are in addition to, not instead of.

Rainbow babies don’t replace the loss, they honor it. They remind us that storms leave scars, but they also make way for light to shine through.

So today, I’m holding space for every parent who has carried grief in one hand and hope in the other. For the ones who know what it feels like to long for what was, while cherishing what is. For the babies we hold in our hearts and the ones we hold in our arms.

Both matter. Both are loved. Both are ours.