After 18 days in the hospital, Erin Bates Paine— and her baby, Henry—- are finally home.
On Saturday, the Bringing Up Bates star posted an update to her and husband Chad Paine‘s joint Instagram account, revealing that she and Henry were sent home, after both spending 18 days in the ICU and NICU, respectively, following a plethora of health issues suffered after Henry’s birth on August 25. This marks the first time that Erin herself has been well enough to post an update.
As The Ashley previously reported, Erin first went into the ICU after developing a severe UTI and kidney infection after Henry’s birth. The infections put Erin into septic shock, and caused her to suffer a lengthy and severe seizure. According to an update given by Erin’s pastor, the seizure she suffered was a 15-minute-long grand mal seizure. He also stated that Erin had been unable to move one of her legs as of last Sunday.
Erin confirmed in her latest update that she, unfortunately, still can’t move one of her legs, but that her health has improved enough that she could go home.
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“After almost three weeks in the hospital, I have never been so thankful to finally head home to our babies,” Erin wrote. “We don’t have all the answers yet, and I still don’t have function in my right leg, but we are choosing to count every blessing—especially the gift of being together again. Your prayers have carried us through and mean the world to our family.”
Erin and Chad are also the parents of six other kids— Charles, Brooklyn, Holland, Everly, Finley and William. Earlier this week, Chad shared a video of himself reading Erin a letter written by Brooklyn. He received quite a bit of criticism for posting the video, which many fans felt was “too personal” to share publicly.
Anyway, another photo posted in Saturday’s update showed baby Henry being released from the NICU after 18 days on Friday. Yesterday, Chad posted on Instagram to thank their friends and family for all of the help they’ve provided to him, Erin, Henry and the kids at home. In the comment section of the post, Erin’s parents, Gil and Kelly Jo Bates, wrote about Erin thinking about others even while she was in the hospital.
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“Erin, we’re still praying for a full recovery & answers!” they wrote. “You’re incredible strong & brave, & in spite of this rough journey, you’ve constantly thought of everyone else in the room- from trying to DoorDash food to apologizing over & over for any trips any one has made on your behalf. We love you so much & we’d travel to the moon & back to get to be with you!”
(Kelly Jo and Gil live in Tennessee, while Erin and her family live in Florida.)
In another recent update, Kelly Jo mentioned that they’ve been hesitant to share updates on their daughter “since Erin’s diagnosis has changed several times.”
“She’d recover from one thing just to experience yet another complication,” she wrote. “It’s puzzled the doctors who’ve done a significant amount of testing, so without an exact diagnosis & with her condition changing often, it’s been harder to share.”
While the family hasn’t shared Erin’s diagnosis or test results with the public, Chad can be heard telling Erin in the video posted on Wednesday that her MRI result “looks good.”
Erin has struggled with her health for years. Before her first son, Charles, was born in 2015, Erin suffered three miscarriages, which she has said were likely due to a blood clotting disorder she has. In 2019, Erin and Chad spoke to People after being told Erin’s health issues may prevent them from having any more children after their fourth-born, Holland.
“After consulting with our doctor, we realized having another baby was not going to be in our future. It was sad, just because we both really love kids, but I knew Erin’s health was the biggest priority, and we were overwhelmingly grateful for the four little blessings God has already given us,” Chad said at the time. “We were content knowing that God sometimes has a different plan than our own.”
In 2021, Erin had multiple surgeries due to ruptured cysts, resulting in her having one of her ovaries fully removed, and the other partially removed.
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Despite her health issues, the ‘Bringing Up Bates’ star went on to have three more babies after Holland at a very fast pace. Daughter Finley was born in January 2022. Less than two years later, Erin and Chad welcomed son William (prematurely) in October 2023. Less than 22 months later, they welcomed Henry.
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16 Responses
As long as she’s able to lay on her back to conceive their 88166399th kid, all is good.
Genuinely glad to hear that she is home now, having zero function in one leg is very concerning though. Sepsis typically has lasting effects, unfortunately, and it affects everyone differently. May this be the wake up call they need to truly stop having children and appreciate the ones they already have.
This. I’m glad she and baby are home now, but I also hope that she continues to get her health monitored sufficiently.
Her seven babies need their mom.
The leg paralysis is such a weird thing. I really wonder what caused it. Hoping she makes a full recovery and is able to walk again.
I think they missed something on the MRI. With right leg paralysis. Seizure and blood clotting disorder that screams stroke on the left side
Her MRI could be “good” as in stable, but have known deficits. Agreed though, could very well be a stroke due to her disorder.
As a massive hemorrhagic stroke survi or my guess is stroke. I’m curious if her right arm moves mine wason the opposite side. O wsnt supposed to ever walk again but I do and I believe Erin may walk again have epilepsy now. Mine took 5 months to come however I think my first seizure happened i. The first couple months.. im jealous she got to go home a lot quicker than I was, but that might be partially due to the fact that they removed half my skull for 10 weeks im working my way towards a lawsuit for negligence. I was in no way in a plaxe where I understood the risks of the surgery that almost killed me.the tried to get me to sign and I was unable to.if the idiot surgeon waited until I was able to under stand the consequences I probably never had had it and just got a prosthetic jaw like I e had for 2 years. It was a less than 1%chance I’d live let alone be able to walk and go to university.iwish her well. I hope she stops having kids because maybe next time she has a has a massive stroke like I did and leave 7 children without their mother..
I hope they get another scan done and specifically look at the left hemisphere. Sometimes it takes a couple scans and a couple specialists to see a stroke. Mine took out the entire hemisphere so there’s mo missing it. If she had a small stroke it. I wonder if they did an MEI with contrasting it would show up
I’ve never seen a more devoted family. They truly love each other and are phenomenal people. Their children hit the jackpot with the parents they have. I wish Erin a speedy recovery and I’m glad to see she’s back home with her children.
Tone deaf! So wonderful this husband of hers? Not too wonderful to get a vasectomy and stop killing her body with these pregnancies! Ugh, religious people…..wheres the emoji vomit please?
I don’t mean this in an ugly way but I know a lot of these fundie type families continue to have as many kids as “God allows them to”. I have heard that phrase with The Duggar’s, The Plath’s and this family. Maybe God is trying to tell them that their bodies cannot have any more babies safely. They both were fully aware of that fact and continued to have more children. I’m glad that the baby and Erin are home now. But they should have maybe thought about how traumatic it would be to their other children if Erin would not have gotten better and the worst case scenario happened.
I agree and I’m also concerned that now they have 7 kids and she still can’t move her right leg. I hope it heals and she will be able to walk around and do all the things she needs to. Having a grand mal seizure and being septic isn’t anything to take lightly. I would hope this would be their last baby but you just never know.
She still isn’t fully cured of whatever happened to her. She still cannot move one of her legs. Did the doctors release her or did they ask if she could leave?
If she’s stable enough to not need continuous skilled care and monitoring she’s ok to be discharged. (Ideally not being thrown back into being a caregiver of a newborn and six other kids under the age of ten, but whatever).
Presumably the plan is to follow up with outpatient appointments. There are people with zero leg function who live independently, that alone isn’t cause to keep her.
In fairness I think the kids seem to have a much more moderate take on that. Michelle and Kelly were having babies or miscarriages every year whereas their girls seem to have kids spaced 2-3 years apart which is normal spacing. I think Chad and Erin are sensible enough to have this be their last baby.
God also blessed Doctors with medical knowledge so that they could heal people & advise their patients on what is best for their health.