Having a rainbow baby is a miracle because it is a baby that is born after a miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death or infant loss. On the flip side of that, a sunshine baby is born before a loss. Those are bittersweet names for families who have every lost a child. It apprears that the song “you are my sunshine” is the perfect pretext for following this article. The lyrics go as follows “You are my sunshine, my only sunshine…..” A beautiful song for this subject.

Key Takeaways:

• For parents that have miscarried they often talk about the joys of the rainbow baby, a baby born after a pregnancy loss
• Many people that have had a pregnancy loss also have a baby that they had before the loss, referred to as a sunshine baby
• Rainbow babies will always hold special places in their parents hearts as the children that could have been

“A sunshine baby, however, is a child carried and born prior to loss.”

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