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Anyone else can’t stand the term “rainbow baby”
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Anonymous 2d

my little sister is my mom’s rainbow baby and honestly it really fucked me up as a child to experience my mom’s miscarriage and then special treatment of my sister afterwards so i agree with you

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Anonymous 2d

i think i technically am one and if people like using it more power to them but i would guess like. at least 1/3 people alive are rainbow babies. its not uncommon at all

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Anonymous 2d

Idk, as a 3x rainbow baby I kinda like it? It makes me less sad than thinking about my mama having 3 miscarriages.

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Anonymous 2d

I fit the definition of a rainbow baby but my parents have never referred to me that way, thank god

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Anonymous 2d

what is that 🧌

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Anonymous 2d

Why?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2d

A baby that comes after infant loss (miscarriage, stillborn, etc.)

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

OMG YEAH SAME 😭😭😭 not to date myself but it wasn’t really a “thing” when I was a baby. People didn’t just make shit up like that for social media clout or whatever

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

Social media was def not a thing when I was born, besides I guess AOL if you can even count that?? But maybe that’s why lol my parents also had me a bit later in life since my mom had 2 miscarriages so they weren’t young and with the times by the time I came along

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

And maybe it’s just me, but I feel like it kinda paints the situation of miscarrying and later having a healthy baby as being rare, when it’s a lot more common that you’d think. it’s just not talked about.

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Anonymous replying to -> darkside. 2d

I work in veterinary so when it comes to dead babies esp around breeding season it doesn’t affect me much. Idk maybe I’m a psychopath but somebody’s gotta do it

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

I’ve been desensitized

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

I think it affects me so much because she’s my mama, and if it helps her find joy to call me that then I’m happy about it

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2d

Oh yeah it totally is. My mom delt with it, my grandma, my aunt, like all the women in my family

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2d

We did not evolve to have easy, successful, abundant pregnancies and childbirth! It’s much more rare to have zero complications and only success with pregnancy. Even after my mom did IVF for me, I still didn’t have a heartbeat when I was supposed to (thank god the gyno told her to come back in a week to make sure before they would terminate the pregnancy)

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