A Grieving Father Asked Strangers To Photoshop A Picture Of His Baby Daughter After She Passed Away

A father whose baby passed away at six-weeks old had one simple request: A portrait of his daughter, Sophia, without hospital tubes attached to her tiny body.

Nathen Steffel, from Ohio, posted his plea on Reddit last Thursday and received an overwhelming response, with commenters submitting retouched photos and sketches of Sophia.

'My daughter recently passed away after a long battle in the children's hospital,' the father-of-two wrote. 'Since she was in the hospital her whole life, we never were able to get a photo without all her tubes. Can someone remove the tubes from this photo?'

After a few days, Mr Steffel received 'a whole lot of love and support from complete strangers,' he told Today.

 

Sophia was born May 30 at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, and died from complications from a hepatic hemangioma, a liver tumor, at just six weeks old.

After she was born, Sophia was moved to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, which has a team of liver surgeons and experts.

Mr Steffel pictured with his newborn daughter Sophia