After suffering a heartbreaking 19 miscarriages, an Arizona couple’s family is finally complete after welcoming their newest bundle of joy last October 4. Finnley is the miracle that Cary and Tim Patonai have been waiting for. The couple experienced a staggering 17 miscarriages between the birth of their children and two more this past year. … Read more
New Zealand, a country that has been a pioneer on women’s rights issues, has passed legislation providing mothers and their partners three days of paid bereavement leave following a miscarriage or stillbirth. The groundbreaking bill, which was unanimously passed by the parliament, includes parents planning to have a child through adoption or surrogacy. Politician Ginny … Read more
Photographer Ashley Sargent recently received an unusual request for a newborn photoshoot – one that involved capturing snapshots of a “rainbow baby”. For those of you who are not familiar, a rainbow baby is “a name coined for a healthy baby born after losing a baby due to miscarriage, infant loss, stillbirth, or neonatal death.” … Read more
[This mom writes a powerful letter of gratitude to the nurses who ‘healed’ her, not just the physical wound, but the deeper one that can only be healed by touching someone else’s heart. What they did after the loss of her daughter, it gave her the reason to fight for her own life back. — … Read more