Walker Hayes Opens Up About The Heartbreak Of Losing Baby

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Walker Hayes and his wife Laney sadly lost their seventh child at birth earlier this year, and now the couple is opening up about their heartbreak to “People.”

During delivery, Laney suffered from a rupture of the uterus, which not only took their daughter’s life, but almost took Laney’s as well. After exhibiting some scary symptoms during their planned homebirth, their midwife immediately called 911, where doctors ordered a C-section, but sadly, the child, who they named Oakleigh, didn’t make it. But then Walker was told that his wife’s life was in danger as well and needed emergency surgery.

“Surgery just seemed to never end, and someone would continue to come to me and say things that I didn’t really understand like, ‘We may have to use this much to replace this blood,’” Walker recalls. “That is when I began to worry for my wife’s life, and of course I’m freaking out.”

Once Laney was stable and conscious Walker had to tell her their baby was gone, and then, on the advice of a woman who had lost a baby four years earlier, they spent the day with their daughter’s body. Walker then had to tell his six children that their sister was gone. “They all just handled it differently,” he says. “Some were really sad. Some were like, ‘Can I go back outside and play?’ It was tough to tell them.”

As if all this wasn’t sad enough, doctors have told Laney that she can no longer carry a pregnancy. “I lost my last baby and now I’m done?” she says. “That’s hard.” But, she adds that her six kids “are more than enough to me,” adding, “I do want them to know they’re wonderful and enough.”

 Source: People