Pink and blue ribbon

The pink and blue ribbon is a symbol for promoting:

  • Baby loss awareness, including loss during and after pregnancy, stillbirth, miscarriage, termination for medical reasons, neonatal death and SIDS. Baby Loss Awareness week is from 9 to 15 October.[1][2]
  • Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day is October 15 in Canada, United States, Australia, and UK.
  • Pyloric stenosis awareness.[3]
  • Male breast cancer awareness.
  • Pre-natal loss including miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth and prematurity.[2]
  • Infantile diseases and illnesses.
Pink and blue ribbon

Also symbolic for fathers who lost a child to abortion.

References
  1. "Baby Loss Awareness Campaign". Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  2. Boyd, James A. (July 2010). Pink Ribbons: Cancer's Answers. FriesenPress. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-77067-030-3.
  3. "Awareness Ribbon Meanings". Archived from the original on 30 November 2010. Retrieved 14 January 2017.


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