I’m excited to share that I’ve co-founded a new blog! Rainbows and Unicorns* is devoted to parenting after pregnancy loss and infertility.
* If a rainbow baby is one born after loss, I suggested a baby is one born after infertility be called a unicorn.
A common misconception is that once you have a baby, all the pain of infertility or pregnancy loss evaporates. As anyone who’s parenting after losing a baby or struggling to conceive can tell you: having a baby cures childlessness, but not infertility.
We have residual feelings of grief, some of us battle depression and anxiety, most of us get angry when society pooh-poohs our experience. All while delighting in and being grateful for our bundles of joy.
As I explain in my first post:
Everyone agrees that parenting is hard. But pregnancy and parenting after loss and/or infertility is an untamed beast. A few are able to ride bare-back into the sunset without a backwards glance. Most of us regularly wrestle with the bucking.
I and other women I’ve connected with via this blog and Twitter want to explore the roller coaster of feelings that we experience after struggling to have our families:
We’re caught between two groups: we can’t fully relate to those who conceived effortlessly, but nor do we quite fit in with those trying so hard to overcome their childlessness or accept it.
If this resonates with you, please check out Rainbows and Unicorns. We hope to create a community that both welcomes rainbow / unicorn parents and educates others about our particular struggles.
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If you have a rainbow, a unicorn, or one on the way and would like to write something, we’d love to include as many stories from people as possible — you are welcome to be anonymous or link back to your own blog.
Wonderfully written. Excited to check out your blog .
You’ve been a community builder since I’ve known you. This is wonderful! XO
Love it! I’ll be reading :-)
So beautifully put Lauren, and a subject which resonates very strongly with me. As a mother of a Rainbow Unicorn (that most precious of gifts) your new blog is one I will most definitely be looking to with interest. x
This is wonderful–such a perfect next phase.
This is awesome. I’m so glad you and others are doing this. Not that we all shouldn’t support each other regardless of how our journey turns out but it’s helpful to speak with others who go down a similar path that you can relate to. I hope this helps you and others navigate the next chapters in your journeys.