{"id":8426,"date":"2026-07-17T08:01:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=8426"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:01:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:01:58","slug":"erin-bates-open-to-more-kids-after-sepsis-seizure-amid-baby-no-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=8426","title":{"rendered":"Erin Bates Open to More Kids After Sepsis, Seizure Amid Baby No. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p class=\"elementToProof\">\u201cLooking back on my childhood and the way that my parents raised me, I can\u2019t think of anything that was negative,\u201d <strong>Erin Bates Pain<\/strong> (who joined the fam on May 2, 1991) told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tv\/bringing-up-bates-star-erin-bates-paine-on-her-pregnancy-and-miscarriages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>People<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;Everything, looking back, is really positive, and we made the best memories.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementToProof\">While they didn\u2019t have a television \u201cwe substituted that for playtime with dad,\u201d she continued. \u201cOr, you know, playing games as a family or making memories. So, I don\u2019t feel like we missed out on anything and, actually, I think we were smarter because of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementToProof\">Which meant that after she married <strong>Charles &#8220;Chad&#8221; Stephen Paine III<\/strong>\u00a0in 2013, they were eager for a big brood of their own. A blood clotting disorder let to several miscarriages before they were able to welcome <strong>Carson<\/strong>\u00a0in May 2015, <strong>Brooklyn<\/strong>\u00a0in August 2016, <strong>Everly<\/strong>\u00a0in May 2018, <strong>Holland<\/strong>\u00a0in November 2019 and <strong>Finley<\/strong>\u00a0in January 2022. And though she believed they wouldn\u2019t be able to have more children, they went on to grow their family with <strong>William<\/strong>\u00a0in October 2023 and <strong>Henry<\/strong> in August 2025. Revealing that Erin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1422071\/erin-bates-suffers-seizure-amid-septic-shock-hospitalization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had gone into septic shock<\/a> following Henry\u2019s delivery, Chad wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DN3xCrPYhd6\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>. &#8220;We would so appreciate your prayers for Erin as she continues to recover from some complications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"elementToProof\">By October, she revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1423346\/erin-bates-bringing-up-bates-star-walking-after-sepsis-battle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she&#8217;d begun to walk<\/a>, writing on Instagram, &#8220;They might be a little wobbly, but they are steps I wasn\u2019t sure I\u2019d ever take again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLooking back on my childhood and the way that my parents raised me, I can\u2019t think of anything that was negative,\u201d Erin Bates Pain (who joined the fam on May 2, 1991) told People. &#8220;Everything, looking back, is really positive, and we made the best memories.\u201d\u00a0 While they didn\u2019t have a television \u201cwe substituted that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20250904\/a63de84c-4395-45d4-ae8b-832eba64cf1e_1757040293.jpg?fit=around%7C1200:1200&output-quality=90&crop=1200:1200;center,top","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}