"Six roses we now have. Two will always be beautiful rosebuds. The other four will bloom & fill our home with the sweet fragrance of children's love."
These are the same words that graced our first rainbow baby's birth announcement, only the numbers have changed. Eight years ago when I first settled on this phrase after researching "subsequent birth announcements" I never imagined having any more than one rosebud even though I knew of other families with two or more. I feared it but never truly accepted that it could become reality. Now that it has become reality it is what it is. I can't imagine things any differently.
I like how these words gracefully announce the birth of a healthy living child while at the same time gently reminding others that there is and will always be two more children in our family and memories. For us it is impossible to welcome one without missing the others even more than ever.
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