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A RAINBOW BABY STORY: AS TOLD BY AN AFRICAN QUEEN
A rainbow baby is a baby born after a miscarriage, stillborn, or neonatal death. It is called a rainbow baby because it is like a rainbow after a storm: something beautiful after something scary and dark. Every year, Since 2002 the 9th -15th October is termed Baby Loss Awareness Week . This aims to raise awareness about pregnancy and baby loss. How we wish this awareness would transcend borders and bring hope to the many parents who never get the chance to mourn their loss, or celebrate their rainbow babies. Sadly there is a deafening silence surrounding miscarriage in Sub Saharan Africa. Women who were affected by miscarriage crave for shoulders to lean on…
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LOSS- LIKE NO OTHER
I have never experienced the death of a close family member. My grandfathers were old when they passed and one of my grandmothers passed when my father was a child. Of course along this thing we call life I have had deaths that have touched me; deaths of relatives, friends, college mates, colleagues etc. However, there is the death of one that is hardly talked about or is hard to categorize. It is the loss of an unborn baby, death of a premature baby, or a still birth. These deaths who many don’t categorize as having lost a child, I have experienced that loss. I have lost two sons. I…
