Rainbows in the Marketplace

Many pregnancy loss families consider a subsequent pregnancy, one following a loss, to be called a “rainbow” pregnancy.

But loss families are the only ones.

Oreo is the latest company to use the rainbow in their corporate support of homosexuality and gay rights issues.

If you are a homosexual parent who’s experienced pregnancy loss and then a subsequent “rainbow” pregnancy, how do you feel about rainbows being depicted for homosexuality and/or for pregnancy loss? Do you align with one use over the other?

For heterosexual parents, is the use of the rainbow for purposes other than subsequent pregnancies, additionally hurtful, or isn’t it?

In general, how do you feel about the rainbow and its many uses?

(I wrote about my opinion in “She’s not my rainbow.”)

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

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A pregnancy loss is still a birthday.

— stillbirthday

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

— Boris Pasternak

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

— Mohsin Hamid

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman’s side during childbirth.

— Liya Kebede

It is incumbent upon us to respond to the unique needs of military women and ensure they receive proper care during the first year following childbirth.

— Susan Collins

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