Miracle child! One 12 months after Erin Bates revealed well being issues that would probably forestall her from increasing her household, the Bringing Up Bates star has given start to child No. 5.
The fact star, 30, shared a photo from the hospital on Monday, January 17, calling it “child day,” earlier than saying the infant’s identify as Finley Marie Paine through her hashtag.
At some point later, Bates debuted her and husband Chad Paine’s fifth little one through her Instagram Story. “Head over heels in love,” she captioned a snap of the new child child woman snuggled up towards her chest on Tuesday, January 18.
The TV character additionally posted a photograph of her husband, 34, massaging her foot as she sat in her hospital mattress. “I really like him. So much,” she wrote through social media.

Their daughter’s arrival got here simply hours after UPtv introduced on Tuesday that Bringing Up Bates would no longer be returning to the network for season 11.
“We won't be premiering Bringing Up Bates season 11 on UPtv as deliberate as we will probably be focusing our programming in 2022 on films and a brand new scripted sequence to be introduced quickly,” the community mentioned in an announcement to Us Weekly. “After we premiered Bringing Up Bates, the sequence was centered on dad and mom with 19 youngsters who had been youngsters and younger youngsters. The cameras had been there to seize the love, laughs and massive life moments, because the household continued to develop.”
UPtv concluded: “Thanks to the followers who tuned in each Thursday evening to be a part of the journey. We’re wanting ahead to persevering with to uplift you with our programming sooner or later.”
Bates, who appeared on the sequence for 10 seasons, beforehand announced her pregnancy news in August 2021 with an Instagram child bump debut. “YES!!! We ARE EXPECTING … and nonetheless pinching ourselves to see if it’s actual!” the UPtv character captioned a household picture on the time. “God is so good.”
The completely satisfied couple had been all smiles within the candy shot alongside their 4 youngsters: Carson, 6, Brooklyn, 5, Everly, 3, and Holland, 2.
The next month, the expectant star revealed their fifth little one was going to be one other daughter.
“We needed just a little boy for Carson to have a brother,” Bates mentioned in an October 2021 YouTube video. “At first he was like, ‘Mother, this isn't what I prayed for. I prayed for just a little boy.’ It didn’t actually matter to both of us. I defined, ‘Carson, God knew that this sister goes to be extraordinarily particular to you.’ In fact, the women had been wanting just a little woman.”
The worship singer was beforehand involved that she would likely never get pregnant again after battling COVID-19 twice and having three surgical procedures to take away most of her ovaries.
“I mainly have one third of an ovary left, however it’s very scarred,” the Tennessee native defined solely to Us in February 2021. “So at this level, it’s not within the query in any respect, which is unhappy as a result of me and Chad at all times talked about having at the least 10 youngsters, however you by no means know what God has for the long run. Typically it’s not like what you intend or the way you envision it. So I don’t know what God has for us down the street, however we’re undoubtedly open to many choices.”
Bates known as Paine a “hero” that very same month, gushing through Instagram: “He has pampered and waited on me hand and foot all day and all evening. He has been so affected person and caring, and he’s not too shabby as a prepare dinner and for positive higher than me at laundry, dishes and mopping. His every day love notes have made me cry and smile on the identical time, and nothing is sweeter than listening to the children stomach giggle as he chases them by means of the home for hours or makes his tales come to life each evening. I'm so blessed.”