blessed events
Babies entering families
A blessed event is the birth of a baby, used with gentle humor or mild irony to acknowledge both the joy and the upheaval that a new child brings.
The phrase treats childbirth as something sacred or divinely favored while winking at the chaos of parenthood.
The whole family gathered to celebrate the blessed event.
It appears most often in announcements or congratulatory contexts.
- christeningCeremony naming a child
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- nativityState of being born
- conceptionsIdeas or understandings formed
- maternityState of being pregnant
pregnancies · birth · it's a boy · it's a girl · baby announcement · new arrival · infant · babies · little one · stork · milestone · arrival · labors · newborn · church festivals · bundle of joy · miracle · delivery
blessed eventsdeaths
Permanent cessations of life
passings · funerals · bereavements · losses · endings
blessed eventstragedies
Dramas with fatal endings
stillbirths · calamities · miscarriages · heartbreaks · catastrophes
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