Dad’s Heartwarming Tattoo to Support 6-Year-Old Daughter

New Zealand dad Alistair Campbell got a tattoo of a cochlear implant to support his deaf daughter, Charlotte. (Photo: Facebook/Anita-Alistair Campbell)

A New Zealand dad made a heartwarming gesture toward his 6-year-old daughter this week with a very special tattoo.

Alistair Campbell’s daughter, Charlotte, is deaf, and she has two cochlear implants to help her hear better. She got her first implant when she was 4 years old, and her second was put in earlier this week, according to the New Zealand Herald. Campbell decided to get a cochlear implant, too — only his is a tattoo.

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Campbell told the news outlet that he got inked to show his daughter he could go through a bit of pain for her and that he loved her. “My hair can grow back,” he told the Herald.

Campbell’s wife, Anita, also has a cochlear implant and their son, Lewis, 8, wears hearing aids.

When Charlotte saw her father’s tattoo for the first time, she giggled and said it was “cool,” the New Zealand Herald reports.

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A photo of the tattoo, which Charlotte’s parents uploaded to their joint Facebook page on August 4, has gotten more than 160 shares as of Friday morning. And the LAD Bible, a U.K. viral photo website, shared the photo on its Twitter page, where it was favorited more than 4,000 times and retweeted more than 1,400 times. Twitter users also called the dad’s gesture moving and sweet.

“The reactions have been overwhelming, mostly positive,” Campbell told Buzzfeed. “We’re doing what is best for our daughter and our family.”

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