Audrey Roloff has one very precious reason to be excited at the moment.
And now the Little People, Big World star is finally starting to let that excitement show.
Audrey and husband Jeremy became first-time parents back on September 10, as they welcomed a girl named Ember Jean into the world.
However, for a couple that has always been very honest and forthcoming with their fans and followers, these Roloffs were surprisingly quiet after Ember was born.
Yes, they posed for photos with Us Weekly.
And, yes, they each made it very clear just how happy and blessed they felt at the time, telling the tabloid:
“We are so thankful for this little life we’ve been blessed with and cannot wait to see all that she becomes.
“Labor is such a wild and miraculous process and meeting our baby girl for the first time filled us with uncontainable joy.”
But then there was near silence from Audrey and Jeremy, which stood in stark contrast to the overflow of information from Zach and Tori Roloff after they became first-time parents in May.
What gave? We eventually found out:
Audrey was suffering from symptonm of post-partum depression.
She shared an Instagram post in which she admitted to extreme pain from breastfeeding and extreme frustration overall from new motherhood.
But the TLC star vowed, of course, to “persist.”
And now we’re pleased to report that Audrey (and, by extension, Ember) may be turning a corner.
Four weeks after giving birth, she shared the first photo above of her daughter and provided Instagram followers with an update on how Ember is doing at just under one month old.
“Our baby girl is 4 weeks old today!!! I feel like we just came home from the hospital yesterday… wow,” wrote Audrey as a caption on Sunday.
She then elaborated as follows:
“[Ember] eats and wiggles by day, and eats and cuddles by night. She likes to pull out our hair, does not like footie pajamas (she kicks her feet right out of the legs), she loves the bath, and she prefers sleeping up right or on our chests.
“She smiles a lot and we swear it’s intentional. Some “firsts” include: first time to the farm, first muel ride, and first public blow out.”
Awww! HA! All parents of newborns can relate to that.
As you can see below, meanwhile, fans were appreciative of the information:
The Roloffs have been speaking out about their tiny little human being a lot more of late.
Jeremy, for instance, is already looking way ahead. And worrying a bit.
Asked by Us Weekly what has him concerned as a first-time father, he said last month:
“Just parenting in the sense of discipline when they start getting older and that just makes me nervous because you can do it really, really right and you can also do it really, really wrong.”
That’s true.
And it’s an understandable concern.
But the most important thing any parent can do with a child is to make him or her feel loved.
And we have no doubt that won’t be a problem when it comes to Audrey and Jeremy Roloff.
