This process will look different from person to person, and even from loss to loss. Remember That Everyone Grieves Differently - Grieving, especially grieving the loss of a child, is a deeply personal process. Offer a Keepsake or Memorial Item - If the Angel Baby had a name, providing a keepsake with that name on it can be deeply meaningful to the grieving family. Reaffirming their status as parents can help ease that pain. Even for those that died before birth, talking about their hopes and dreams for the child can help the grieving parent process their grief.Īcknowledge Them as Parents - Parents who, after this kind of loss, no longer have living children may feel a loss of identity as parents. Invite Them To Talk About the Baby - Actually talking about the lost baby can help. Basically, refer to the Angel Baby with whatever name the parent asks. Use the Baby’s Name - If the baby already had a name, using it is important. But being there for them to talk to or to be with matters. You may not know what to say, and that’s totally normal.
If you have someone in your community who has experienced the loss of a pregnancy or baby, there are some ways that you can help them process their grief and begin to heal.īe Present - Be there if the grieving person needs to talk, or if they just need company. If someone who has experienced this kind of loss is comforted by the use of these terms, using them can help the family or parent in question heal from that loss.
The Rainbow Baby represents a clearing after a storm of sadness and loss, and hope for the future. Some women who experience the loss of a pregnancy or baby wonder if they’ll ever have another baby, and the birth of a Rainbow Baby represents a denial of this thought. Rainbow Babies are babies born after an Angel Baby. A Sunshine Baby can help remind a grieving mother that they aren’t somehow flawed or broken in light of a lost pregnancy or infant. Families that lose babies can experience an internalization of blame, wondering what they could have done to prevent the loss. A Sunshine Baby can give the parent and family a thing to focus on that is outside of that grief, helping a bereaved family remember that there is hope for the future. When a family loses a pregnancy or experiences the death of a baby, it’s possible to be overwhelmed by grief. Sunshine Babies are babies that were born before the lost pregnancy or infant. Losing a pregnancy or baby comes with terrible grief, and while using the term “Angel Baby” cannot eliminate that grief (nothing can), it may help some people reframe this traumatic event in a way that doesn’t carry blame or shame for the parent. Thus the terms Sunshine Baby, Angel Baby, and Rainbow Baby.Īn Angel Baby is a word used to refer to a lost pregnancy or infant. Words have power, and they can change the way we view a past event, helping us process the emotional aftermath. The way that we discuss the loss of a pregnancy or baby can matter a lot. Sunshine Babies, Angel Babies, and Rainbow Babies Promoting awareness of pregnancy loss and infant deaths can help make space for people to experience and process this very unique kind of grief. However, these deaths are often left unacknowledged, sometimes even treated as a secret. These losses impact tens of thousands of families and their communities each year. October is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month, a month that we take to acknowledge the grief of parents, families, and communities that experience the loss of a child due to stillbirth, miscarriage, SIDS, or any other cause at any point during pregnancy or infancy.
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