“Bringing Up Bates” star Erin Bates, 34, was flooded with prayers for recovery after she was admitted into the Intensive Care Unit for septic shock that her husband said happened shortly after an intense birth to their “miracle” son.
“Her labor was longer and more intense than previous births,” Bates’ husband Chad Paine, 38, wrote on Instagram Monday. “She has been fighting through it and has been such a light and sweet testimony of grace to nurses, staff, and doctors alike.”
Bates is one of Gil and Kelly Jo Bates’ 19 children who were featured in UPtv’s “Bringing Up Bates” before it was canceled in 2022. Her family has ties to “19 Kids And Counting” Duggar family whose conservative religious faith and controversies were exposed in Amazon Prime Video’s “Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets.”
Bates had previously opened up about enduring several miscarriages due to blood-clotting issues in an interview with People in 2015, calling the experience “one of the hardest things.”
“You build up all these expectations, and you prepare, and you have the date in your mind, and it’s just ― it’s heartbreaking when that ends. It’s like your world’s been crushed,” she told the outlet.
