Erin Bates returns home after 3-week hospital stay after healthcare

Erin Bates Says she feels “grateful” for being home with her family after an almost three -week hospital stay.

The To take up bates star, 34, shared an update on her health on Instagram On Saturday, September 13 and wrote, “After almost three weeks in the hospital, I have never been so grateful to finally go home to our children.”

“We don’t have all the answers yet, and I still don’t have function in my right leg, but we choose to count every blessing – especially the gift to be together again,” she continued and adds, “Your prayers have completed us and means the world to our family.”

The post contained a photo of Erin holding her newborn child while sitting in a wheelchair, with her husband, Chad Painestands behind her with a smile. A second snapshot showed Erin in a car, with the couple’s children who was stuck in a car seat next to her.

Erin and Chad, 38, welcomed his seventh childA boy named Henry Blythe, August 25. When they announced the news about Instagram Two days later, they shared that Erin continued to “recover from certain complications.”

In one update On September 1, Chad said that Henry “did well” in Nicu (neonatal intensive care unit) and that Erin “fought through” some serious complications after the delivery of their son.

“Erin developed a severe utility and kidney infection, which sent her to septic shock,” he wrote. “She is currently still in ICU as doctors continue to treat, diagnose and search for answers.”

Three days later, in one September 4 postChad revealed that Erin had “suffered a long and serious attack” last night.

“Until this point, Erin’s infection got better, but we were back in a place with heart, uncertainty and tears,” he wrote in a long message. “She is in ICU, and the doctors run scans and tests to determine the cause. Erin is extremely weak and spent hours just half -conscious.”

He went on to express how difficult it was to see his wife so sick.

“As her husband, it is one of the most difficult things I have ever met – to sit by her side and watch her struggle while she is so helpless to facilitate her suffering,” he wrote and adds, “we stick to faith that healing comes, even in the midst of the unknown. Your prayers feel, and we are forever grateful.”

In a more encouraging update on September 6 A video Shows Erin snuggling and kisses Baby Henry in his hospital bed. “With tears in our eyes, we praise the Lord that we are on our way to recovery,” reads the caption.

On September 9, Chad revealed that Erin had been is transferred to a new hospital Where “a team of doctors works together to help her improve.”

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Then in another Emotional post On September 20, Chad shared a clip of himself who read a letter to his wife from their 8-year-old daughter, Brooklyn Elise, when Erin was in her hospital bed with closed eyes.

“I pray for you, and I hope I can see you so soon. I love you, and I know you love me back. I wish I could see you now,” Brooklyn’s letter said partly. “I’ve waited every second – one, two, three – for you. Well, Mom, I know how long you stay there, I’ll be here and wait for you.”

In addition to Henry and Brooklyn, Chad and Erin are parents of daughters Finy Marie3 Holland Grace5 and Everly Hope7 and sons William Gage20 months and Charles Steven IV10.