
Baby Elaina’s Medical & Memorial Relief
Many of you know my sister, Ariel. She’s kind and loving, compassionate, selfless. She will do anything for anyone even if she just met you. She’s going to be an amazing mother. Many of you may also know Will, he’s funny and full of love. He is going to a great father. They have been trying to have a baby for 2 years.
July of 2020 they were thrilled to learn that she was finally pregnant!
November 2020, she went in for her 20 week anatomy and there were abnormalities. She went in for a second opinion with a specialist later that week and he confirmed what they had been fearing.
Baby Elaina has a fatal birth defect known as anencephaly. Her brain and skull did not form properly in the first trimester and the top of her spinal cord has closed off and has not connected to her brain. She will not survive for very long after birth, if she does survive the birth. Her prognosis is not compatible with life, and there’s nothing they can do to save her.
Ariel and Will have chosen to keep the pregnancy to term, in hopes to meet this sweet baby girl before she goes to
meet her Heavenly Father.
Their journey will incur many medical expenses as well as preparations and burial. Anything that you are able to offer (whether it be monetary or a share in effort to raise awareness for her condition) to help relieve the financial and emotional burden that they have chosen to endure would be greatly appreciated by both Ariel, Will and our families.
We love you our little Ellie and can’t wait to play with you in Heaven someday