Rainbow

The Coliseum
Medical Center offers Women
quarterly support
groups facilitated by Support
Patient Relations,
Pastoral Care Group
Coordinator, and A rainbow is something beautiful
Greif Support that follows a storm and while it
Counselor does not deny the storm, it offers
Franchetta Trawick beauty and hope of brighter days
(478) to come

Other support groups in the area

 H.E.A.R.T Strings
Perinatal Bereavement & Palliative Care at
Northside Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia

(404) 851.8177

 Celebrate Recovery
Southside Baptist Church in Warner Robins

478.953.9388

 The Camp Grace

(478) 957-5215

 Wings of Hope Grief Support for

Children and Families and
Goodbye Too soon

Both meet at Navicent Health Medical

Center by appointment
478.621.8328

You are not alone
About 10% of women (6.1 million) in
the United States ages 15-44 have
difficulty getting pregnant or staying
pregnant
 10-15% of pregnancies end in
miscarriage, mostly in the first 12
weeks
 Around 24,000 still births occur
each year
 Neonatal death, babies that die
within 28 days of life, happen to
about 4 in 1k babies
 1 in 8 couples have trouble
getting pregnant due to fertility
issues
There are babies and children
looking for a safe place to call
home
About 135,000 children are adopted
each year
 59% from welfare or the foster
system
 29% are from other countries
 15% are voluntarily relinquished
American babies
“There is no pain so great
as the memory of joy in
present grief.”
-Aeschylus
Grieving a loss
There is no right way to grieve, every
individual has a different experience
What is a Rainbow Baby?
and response to a loss. Greif brings a
A rainbow baby is a baby born or
range of emotions and intense feelings
adopted following the loss of another
such as sadness, anger, anxiety,
baby. A rainbow is something
disbelief, panic, relief, irritability or
numbness. beautiful that follows a storm and
while it doesn’t deny the storm, it
Greif does not follow a definite offers beauty and hope of brighter
timeline. With time, the pain may days to com
lessen, but the sorrow we feel will
always be a part of us. When people
grieve they are coming to terms with
Goal of service
what has changed in their lives. We
have to learn to live around a new kind The goal is to achieve peace,
of normal, re-learning the world and improve quality of life, and provide
re-learning ourselves within it. support for those who have suffered
a loss