At just 1 day old, Charlotte Grace Gaudino is bringing hope and healing to her loving family.

Charlotte is a “rainbow” baby, a child born after the storm of personal tragedy — the loss of a previous baby — much like a rainbow appears after the darkness of a rainstorm.

For her mother, Beth Gaudino, the girl’s birth follows several unsuccessful attempts at in-vitro fertilization as well as miscarriages, including the tragic 2015 loss of twins at 20 weeks into her pregnancy. When Beth had lost nearly all hope of fulfilling her dream of motherhood when her sister, Anna Howat, offered to carry a child for her.

Young Charlotte was born Jan. 23 to Beth — with Aunt Anna as her gestational carrier — at Hartford Hospital.

Congratulations to this extraordinary family.

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