Tavin Tadeo Cruz Matias

April 01, 2025 — April 10, 2025

Tavin Matias

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Tavin Tadeo Cruz Matias was born to Amaia Matias on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. He passed away peacefully in his mother’s arms on Thursday, April 10, 2025. In his nine days with his family, he blessed them with a lifetime of love.

Tavin will be forever loved and missed by his mommy, Amaia. There's this saying that having a boy first means you need to know what true love is.

“To my dearest baby boy, the day I found out I was pregnant with you August 16th 2024, I was in disbelief but a date I keep in my heart. I got to see and hear you on an ultrasound for the first time on August 26th 2024, you were just a little bean at that time. I made the decision of keeping your gender a surprise till you were born and it was the greatest surprise ever. I am the luckiest girl alive to have been able to carry you in me for 9.2 months which is 280 days no complications! Wish I could go back in time and feel you at least one more time. I’ll remember how active you were in mommy’s womb, you would give me just about 8 hours of a break a day. And how you disliked any type of meat all the way up until your last 2 weeks in my belly. The only things you wanted to eat were only vegetables and especially potatoes, your favorite snack was hot funyuns with guacamole. I’ll never forget how most family and friends were saying you were going to be a girl and I’d always tell them “when he comes out with a peepee I’m going to laugh so hard” and look just the handsome precious king I was looking for all my life. When I laid my eyes on you for the very first time you made me understand the feeling of true love baby boy I knew it was going to be an ever lasting love! Although I only got to spend 7 days with you my Tavin you’ll spend an eternity in my heart. Goodbyes are too hard so this isn’t a goodbye my love it's more like a see you later mijito.
As much as it hurts, may my grief never leave me… because how lucky am I to have loved someone so much that I will endure missing them for my entire life.”

He was greeted in Heaven by his Siblings, Great great grandma Rosa, Benita and grandpa Frank, Great grandma Kika and grandpa Bernardino, Great Aunts and uncles, Nephew Braydyn and Baby A, cousins and so many other angels!

Funeral service will be held Sunday, April 27, 2025, at Hamilton’s Funeral Home, 605 Lyon Street, Des Moines. Family will greet guests from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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