# For Adira

By [Chris Davis](https://paragraph.com/@foradira) · 2022-11-29

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> **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 more than a few minutes.

![Our sweet baby girl](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/cb754b9fc7665b5f0708737554f2074278da2a1793f6a662fcf1322e8b914a1c.jpg)

Our sweet baby girl

We learned about the condition at the 20-week ultrasound, so we had about 14 weeks to prepare…if that word can be used in this context. She ended up arriving 2 months ahead of schedule, on November 25th, 2022.

My wife and I spent 48 hours with her in the hospital before we had to say goodbye to her forever. I’m unbelievably grateful for the time we got to spend with her. I’ll cherish the memory in my heart forever.

I wish I could have seen the woman she could have been. I wish I could have seen the color of her eyes, or learned what kinds of terrible dad jokes would make her laugh. I wish that I could take her out to lunch, walk her down the isle one day, or maybe just hold her one last time. I miss her so, so much.

In the process of mending, I decided to create a Gallery for my sweet girl. These are things that remind me of her or make me daydream about what she would have been like. I look forward to building this memory gallery in the years to come.

[https://gallery.so/Adira](https://gallery.so/Adira)

**We’ll leave this wallet to my toddler Asa on his 18th birthday. We won’t withdraw _anything_ from this wallet before that date.** When he receives it, he can do whatever he wants with it.

I’m so grateful to be her father, though I need to figure out what that actually means. She’ll always be the most beautiful baby girl I’ve ever seen.

❤️ I love you, Adira.

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> If you wish to contribute gifts or art to the For Adira Gallery, please don’t hesitate to send NFTs to [ForAdira.eth](https://etherscan.io/address/0x40ced2d18bba4848e4c2ca154d7b11b9489cdb55). I’ll add them to a Gifts section in the Gallery. My family is grateful for the kindness. They’ll be included in Asa’s 18th birthday gift.

_I’m writing this post in an effort to memorialize Adira’s memory on the blockchain, for all the years to come._ _Thank you for reading._

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*Originally published on [Chris Davis](https://paragraph.com/@foradira/for-adira)*