When a rainbow baby meets her mother, it’s an emotional moment
After a miscarriage or stillbirth, a rainbow baby is born. There’s a particularly nice description that’s been floating around the BabyCenter Community for years:
“Rainbow Babies” is the understanding that the beauty of a rainbow does not negate the ravages of the storm. When a rainbow appears, it doesn’t mean the storm never happened or that the family is not still dealing with its aftermath. What it means is that something beautiful and full of light has appeared in the midst of the darkness and clouds. Storm clouds may still hover but the rainbow provides a counterbalance of color, energy, and hope.
Lila and Tim began attempting to have their third child in December of 2015. They were ecstatic when they finally saw “those wonderful two pink lines.”
Then, a week following their positive test, Lila began to have significant pain and went to visit her doctor right away. Her worst worries were verified by the doctor: a tubal pregnancy.
Lila’s right fallopian tube ruptured despite close supervision, and she was hurried to the operating room for a tubal ligation.
Lila told birth photographer Laura Fifield, “I was heartbroken and my husband was terrified at the thought that he had almost lost his wife and mother to his children. Through tear-filled eyes I cried out to God asking ‘why?’ I was scared and confused. I got only one response ‘through this I will bring joy.'”
Soon after Lila’s emergency operation, the couple was able to conceive again, and Audrey Joy, their beautiful baby girl, was born barely one year after their tragedy.
“I held firmly to God’s promise,” Lila says, beautifully capturing the essence of a rainbow baby. “My husband and I grew closer to each other and to God as a result of this experience. I got a newfound respect for the delicate nature of both pregnancy and my own life.”
