Influencer Nicole Faith announced her infant daughter died during a stillborn delivery.
“Our sweet Sunny girl has died,” Faith, 29, wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, January 21. “I wish I could soften the words to make them palatable, but I cannot dull this heartache. At 8 months pregnant, on January 1st we went into the hospital, and on January 3rd I delivered our daughter into the arms of Jesus.”
She continued, “We are aching in a way that knows no bounds, we yearn for our sunny girl. I long to see her arms reach out to me, to hear her cries in the night. I carry the weight of postpartum without my baby, and a room set up for her that carries only silence. We don’t understand why this has happened, medically or spiritually, and we may never, but we feel the presence of God in the details while we wrestle with the many ‘whys’ of this tragedy.”
Alongside the message, Faith shared a series of photos of herself and husband Taylor Symmank holding their daughter in the hospital. Another image showed a card that had their daughter’s footprints and handprints and read, “In memory of.”
“When God gave us Sunny, we knew she was a miracle. She was life. She was our legacy. She was God’s promise. And somehow, even now, in a way I cannot yet fathom, she still is,” Faith wrote. “We would do anything to hold her again, anything to bring her back, anything to see her in her tiny onesies and experience this life with her. But it seems the only place worthy of Sunny is heaven.”
Faith continued, “Thank you to our people that stayed at the hospital praying for us for 3 days, that sat outside our door all night, that filled our fridge and pantry, that have sent us meals, and everyone that has breathed sunny’s name in prayer. We have so much more to say, but for now, we miss you desperately sunny girl.”
Faith, who has amassed more than 26,000 Instagram followers, announced in October 2025 that she and Symmank were expecting their first baby.
“Humbled. Grateful. Honored. Baby girl due spring 2026 🥹🎀,” she wrote in a joint Instagram post at the time, sharing several photos of the couple smiling as they held up a sonogram.
One year before their pregnancy announcement, Symmank got down on one knee and proposed to Faith on a beach in Florida. “WE’RE ENGAGED!! 🥹💍🥂🍾,” the pair wrote in a joint Instagram post in 2024.
Symmank and Faith tied the knot that same year, teasing in a joint Instagram post, “& then there was us 🤍.”
Months later, Faith reflected on her end of the year.
“This year has been so beautiful, AND it’s brought me to my knees in physical pain, which has led me in and out of dark places,” she wrote via Instagram in 2025. “I have so much goodness in my life because of God, AND at times I’m negative, I doubt, I question and I feel guilty for not trusting His plan.”
She continued, “I haven’t been able to share much because I’m usually better at sharing after the fact, when I’ve worked through it, not as much during the storm. But watching everyone’s social media and seeing people move and live in their bodies has made me feel so left out AND I know I’m not the only one comparing their lives.”
Faith noted in her message that she was “here to say things may be confusing, and hard right now.”
“You may see the world moving on and living life. You may feel forgotten. You may not see the year ahead with hope. You may even feel guilty for feeling depressed even when you have everything you need,” she wrote. “God covers it all. When you can’t move He will move for you. And if He asks you to move He will give you the strength. When the pain is too much, you can offer it up to Him. When you are confused, you can ask Him for the truth. In our own way, it’s hard to make sense of anything. But in His way, is where relief, peace and comfort can be found.”
She concluded, “This is a new year, and He is doing a new thing. We can rest in that.”
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