I am a double rainbow star baby.
I was the fifth child born to my parents.
Two older siblings, two older siblings who were stillborn and my twin sister who did not survive that pregnancy.
I am the final female child. One other sibling to follow me 18 months later....and EUREKA!!! my mother finally got her son.

My existance was what one would medically say was a miracle. Not my mother. I was just another female child. So she was still not happy with my birth. That pregnancy was when my mother almost died. She was 25 weeks along with me and my twin sister, back then, no ultrasounds. So it was not know that she was carrying twins so early on. She had a history of losing her baby in the sixth month, due to her personal makeup. At 25 weeks, she started to hemmorage. At the hospital, they tried to stop the bleeding but knew that she had lost the child, my twin sister. The doctors gave my mom blood transfusions to save her life, not knowing she was still carrying me. They gave my mom last rites and told my dad not to leave the hospital that night.
The next day, she was doing better, and to make sure that she expelled the placenta, they did an exam. Never expecting to find me, still alive. I was born at 27 weeks, premature, and with some medical issues. I was in the hospital 3 months and was discharged on my actual due date. I was baptized and given last rites at birth, and had surgery at 7 days old.

I have beaten the odds so many times, since the day I was born. I have done so much introspective as to why I survived, why I was born to whom I was, and what was my purpose on this earth. I am still striving for these answers, and I have gratitude for what I have survived, as a child and well into my golden years now.