Ramblings about and memories for my daughter, Anna Adira, who we lost only minutes after her birth.

For Adira
Warning: This post talks about infant loss.On November 25th at 4:12 pm, my wife and I gave birth to our beautiful baby girl, Anna Adira Davis. By 4:45 pm, we were saying goodbye to her. Anna had an incredibly rare condition called multi-cystic kidney disease. Essentially, instead of developing healthy kidneys, her little body developed two sacks of cysts. Babies with this condition can’t develop fully in other ways and often have lungs so immature that they can’t survive in the real world for...

For Adira
Warning: This post talks about infant loss.On November 25th at 4:12 pm, my wife and I gave birth to our beautiful baby girl, Anna Adira Davis. By 4:45 pm, we were saying goodbye to her. Anna had an incredibly rare condition called multi-cystic kidney disease. Essentially, instead of developing healthy kidneys, her little body developed two sacks of cysts. Babies with this condition can’t develop fully in other ways and often have lungs so immature that they can’t survive in the real world for...