Erin Bates Takes Her 1st Steps Following Sepsis Battle, Baby No. 7

Bringing Up Bates star Erin Bates is documenting her recovery after a sepsis battle. “I don’t even have the words. 🥲 For weeks, my leg has not worked (since my seizure in the hospital). I’ve been carried, wheeled, and held up through tears and prayers… and today — it moved,” she wrote via Instagram on Thursday, October 2. “Today I took steps. They might be a little wobbly, but they are steps I wasn’t sure I’d ever take again. 🥹.” Bates, 38, who shares seven kids with husband Chad Paine, got emotional over the progress she made, noting, “I’ve cried until I laughed, and laughed until I cried.