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Derek Hough and wife Haley Abbott reflected in Welcome their rainbow baby She gave birth at home after Elbert’s near-fatal health scare.
“We had candles lit everywhere and good music playing,” Hough, 40, told us people In an interview published on Wednesday, January 21, the arrival of daughter Everly in December 2025 was recalled. “I was in the room when Haley went into labor, holding her…she was just power. I was in awe the whole time. I was like, ‘Damn. All you women are badass.'”
Ebert, 31, called moment “It’s so special.” She also spoke of her current health more than two years after undergoing surgery to replace most of the skull removed during a craniectomy.
“Honestly, I’m always on the lookout. If I have a headache, I immediately have some PTSD-like symptoms and I’m like, ‘Is this going to go away?’ Because it all starts with the headache,” she noted. “But there’s really nothing that I need to pay attention to or pay attention to. It’s just life.”
Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert wowed viewers with their chemistry before tying the knot in 2023. Hough first connected with Albert after he was chosen as a dancer for Derek Hough and sister Julianne Hough on their 2014 Move Live tour. By July 2015, they became a couple. Thank you! You have successfully subscribed. subscription(…)
Hough and Albert began dating in 2015 and announced their engagement seven years later. They married in 2023, the same year Elbert was hospitalized for treatment For cranial hematoma.
“Hailey’s first words when she woke up from surgery—half her skull missing and her face swollen—were not, ‘Am I going to be able to dance again?’ The question was, ‘Am I going to be able to have children?'” Hough recalled to People . “The doctor said, ‘Yes, of course.’ And here we are.”
The couple announced Albert’s pregnancy in July 2025. While awaiting the birth of their daughter, the couple revealed that Albert had suffered a previous miscarriage.
“Some things in life change you forever,” they wrote in a joint Instagram post in October 2025. “For us, this is one of them. This is a chapter about love, loss, heartbreak, and everything in between. Now it’s 10 , Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, we share this part of our story in honor of our unborn babies. One in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage, a silent heartbreak that many families know, and as we share this, we unfortunately have to experience it once, knowing that the rainbow is not far away.”
When talking to people, Elbert express thanks “A very easy pregnancy” with Everly.
Many celebrities started their own families in 2026. Former Bachelor contestant Sydney Warner announced in January that she had given birth to her second child with husband, NFL star Fred Warner. Sydney gushed on Instagram on January 7: “Our daughter is safe, healthy and loved. Thank you God for your protection, strength and countless prayers (…)
“I didn’t really have any morning sickness. I had some food aversions, but I felt very calm,” she added Wednesday. “Every time I feel movement, I’m like, ‘Oh my God, baby, this is crazy.'”
She continued, “I felt like there was a little alien inside me. When we transformed her, Everly would do karate kicks. I was like, ‘This is what’s going on inside me.'” It’s so cool to be able to see it in real life now. “
Elbert also explained why the couple chose to wait until she and Everly were nearly 20 weeks pregnant to announce her pregnancy.
“I didn’t have a lot of symptoms at first and I felt fine, so I was really scared that something was going to happen. It really scared the hell out of us,” she said. “When we go on adventures we try to live life to the fullest because we know it will be the last year for either of us. But when we get home we do a scan to make sure everything is OK.”
Looking to the future, Abbott and Hough aren’t ruling out the idea of expanding their family again.
“There’s a saying that your first kid makes you want a million kids, and your second kid makes you feel like you have a million kids. So I’m like, ‘Okay, that’s good to know,'” she told the outlet, while Hough added, “I know, because after this we’re like, ‘Okay, baby, let’s go! Let’s go.'”
