If you have faced post-loss lactation and have shared your milk:
- with a surviving multiple
- with a surviving older sibling
- with another baby, either through pumping or direct wetnursing
Or if you are a mother nursing your subsequent baby, and this has brought you into a new facet of your grief, as you mourn that nursing relationship not had with your beloved, deceased baby.
Or if you are a bereaved mother who has not experienced lactation at all, but who wants a beautiful keepsake that honors your very real motherhood and all that you are grieving.
We at stillbirthday call this our Rainbow Milk Campaign – an opportunity for you to share photos and stories of this sort of tandem nursing, and see the stories and photos shared by other stillbirthday mothers. You can also purchase your very own stillbirthday Rainbow Milk teether/necklace.
Related: Love Letters
Sarah-Anne is the first baby photographed in our Rainbow Milk campaign. Her mama was pregnant with triplets and lost all 3 babies. All girls, they collectively refer to them as ‘Hope’. This photo was taken during Sarah-Anne’s first birthday party; it was rainbow-themed. Canary Lane, a very special photographer and friend, is also an SBD doula student.
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