A Rainbow Baby is a Baby born after the loss of a child. Each month, I gift a newborn session to a family who has experienced this loss. My hope is that through sharing their story, It may bring hope and healing to other families.
“Though we only learned of our prior baby for a short time, the physical and emotional pain of losing him or her was undeniable and unbearable. Though the physical pain was short lived, the emotional and spiritual pain lingered for not hours, not days, but weeks into months. As a spiritual (religious) person, I turned to the place I find strength when I am weak, and turned to the Lord. I learned about St. Gianna Beretta Molla, an Italian pediatrician, and the saint of working mothers, physicians, and unborn children - which was suiting to me as I work in healthcare. It was also around this time, I made the decision to try to turn my mourning and pain into something greater - to give it purpose in my life - so I did something I believed I could not accomplish in this lifetime and signed up for a marathon, with the intention of using the time of training to pray for our next baby.. I trained for the marathon nearly everyday for months, and during my weekly “long run”, I offered up my run to the Lord and said a novena to Saint Gianna praying for our next conceived baby’s health and wellbeing. Not by coincidence, I learned that Saint Gianna had a shrine in the same city as the marathon I signed up for, and was able to visit the night before I ran my race - an experience that moved me to tears. The day of the race, whenever I felt I could no longer put one foot in front of the other, I focused my energy on praying to meet our next conceived baby and for him/her to be healthy. Though it took everything inside me and above, I did finish that marathon, and I found healing in the race and the training process. And after little Josephine was conceived, I prayed to St Gianna every day throughout pregnancy. Today, we have little Josephine Ana. Who daddy and I prayed for long before she was in existence. The marathon I literally trained and ran, prepared me for the ups and downs of pregnancy, labor, and as a new mother. It has been a wild, beautiful journey this far.” ~Emilie
