Sadie Robertson’s honest quotes for maternity and birth

Sadie Robertson been open and honest about her experience with maternity.

The Duck dynasty Star, who shares three children with a husband Christian huffHe has not departed from discussing personal details of his births and postpartum battles over the years. (The Honey James girls, Haven Belle and Kit Carroway welcomed in May 2021, May 2023 and August 2025, respectively.)

“I have struggled with concern for years, and even written a book called Live in an — Because of my journey with anxiety … I always try to fight fear in my life, but when I got (honey) and I was going through that postpartum, it was like so many emotions that happened that I couldn’t really fight the fear as I do normally, ”said Robertson its “whoa that is good” podcast in 2021.

Robertson, who was only a teenager when he rose to fame Duck dynasty Alongside her family, she added that many of her concerns turned around her birth experience with honey, and “got stuck” during labor and delivery.

“Because honey and I had the labor we tested, my mind caught going into the, ‘What if?’ Like, what would have happened, what if it lasted another minute and she did not, what if she didn’t really come out … what if I lost too much blood? ‘”Said Robertson. “He led me in, ‘Is she right, did she really do, did I really through that? Is something wrong with me (or) hi?

Below, see more quotes about Maternity from Robertson:

At his first birth ‘chaotic’

When Robertson welcomed honey in 2021, he experienced Labor and a moving delivery.

“So I’m going to push and everything goes crazy,” she remembered her podcast at the time. “Suddenly, I was pushed down on the bed and they pushed my mother out of the way, and every nurse in the room was a bit over me and they pulled my legs and pushed my stomach as hard as they could and honestly didn’t know what happened.

Robertson went on to detail how Honey shoulder was stuck in the birth canal, which is “truly, very rare” and occurs in about 1 per cent of births.

“Our nurse said it was the most terrifying thing that can happen in a vaginal delivery,” he admitted, adding, “Time stood still.

Honey was stuck for over two minutes, but eventually doctors got her out. She took a while for them to breathe on her own, but when she did, everything was fine. Amazingly, the baby’s shoulder was not injured in sending it.

“They had three doctors to check her shoulder because they were in disbelief that it didn’t break,” said Robertson.

How birth made her feel confident

“I don’t know if the word is ‘pretty’, but I have never felt more confident in my life with my body than the day I got honey,” Robertson divided through Instagram stories in 2021.

He added, “It was a very different perspective than I ever had from my body … that’s really powerful and more than just an image. I didn’t want to wear makeup and I wanted my mother to weave my hair because that’s when I feel the most myself and it’s such a raw moment.”

On Postpartum’s concern

Initially, Robertson kept quiet for her postpartum concern in case of misunderstanding.

“I didn’t understand how I could be so happy and so joyful (to have a baby) but also experienced so much fear,” she said on her podcast in 2021, adding that she soon realized that the two feelings could exist “hand in hand” together.

“The reason I’m so scared is because I loved her so much … I was so happy to become her mother. However, just because it made reasonable sense that I didn’t have some fear meant that that was something I needed to live with,” added Robertson.

Began to “disregard that fear with thanksgiving,” and bonded with a huffwho also faced challenges as a first -time father.

“We both needed to open about it,” said Robertson, who eventually sought help with a specialist.

Have a C-section with his 2nd daughter

“We knew we would have a C-department that was great, so far before I had the C-section, and I got very nervous,” said Robertson on her “whoa that is good” podcast in 2023.

“I was more nervous about having two children,” added Huff.

They also shared that they had a little comedy relief re -gone after a junk sprayed their house before sending it and their anesthesiologist “had a booger. A big one. On his face. For a solid 30 minutes,” Huff threw.

How maternity has been changed

In a Post by Instagram In May 2024, Robertson shared that she felt more content than ever since becoming a mother.

“I met someone today who has seen my messages and said ever since you became a mother you have just appeared to ‘settle.’ She would be correct, ”wrote Robertson. “Since becoming a mother I don’t feel I need to experience anything to the world … or maybe just my idea of the ‘world’ changed. The world used to be everyone outside my home … Now here are the ones.”

At the thought of she had a bathroom accident when delivery

During Episode July 2024 of her podcastRobertson admitted that she believed she was “pooping her pants” when sending.

“Legally, I was laying in bed and I started laughing, and I said, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m sorry.’ We can’t stop laughing.

Robertson said her doctor had been assured that her water had just broken, but she was otherwise convinced.

“I tried to stop him (from looking) but I was epidural so I couldn’t really move,” he told his friends, laughing and imitating his arm movements. “Then it was like, ‘your water broke!’ When he told me he was going to break my water, my water broke, like, on a queue, which was really cool. ”

On ‘bounce-back culture’

In the same episode, Robertson said the pressure to bounce back after having a baby is difficult, especially with social media.

“When you think of a bounce back culture, like, how people post on Instagram and look at me now or whatever, I know that’s difficult because you don’t see a full picture,” he said. “And even for me, I posted and I didn’t post it to say like, ‘Oh, look at me bounce back,’ or anything like that. But I can say, ‘Oh, I look less.’ But that was not the purpose of the picture. And that’s right. ”
Robertson added that she remembered thinking four months Postpartum would be the time when she would feel back to normal, but that was not the case at all.

“But then I remember a doctor telling me, like, hey, it took you nine months to grow a baby and then you birthed the baby, and you need time and place, like, really, just nurture the baby, feed the baby, nurse the baby, other things. and being new.

“It’s so amazing how, like, man, I really mean this and everything, like, I wouldn’t trade where I was before where I am right now, from a body perspective, as, because I feel so much stronger and healthier, and, like, mentally, physically, in every way. And part of that is just like being a mother,” he said.

On the guilt of a mother

Robertson said she felt guilt as a working mother but tries to remember that she is the best mother for her children.

“God called me to do what I do and God also called me to be their mother,” she said on her podcast in 2024. “And both can be something that he excited about.

The peace he felt in welcoming his 3rd baby

In Long Instagram Post Following the birth of Kit in August 2025, Robertson said she felt peace while listening to the music of worship during his C.

“I always tell people, even though Labor is so hard, I would never want anyone to feel afraid or my experiences shocked them, because though there is pain and anxiety, you also experience God’s presence in a way that is so unusual. You are literally in the moment of miracle. New life is born. The beginning of an inheritance is fulfilled.” Here on – your name is worthy. And those are the words my soul felt as I looked at. Pure worship. Pure joy. Pure delight in God’s gift, And in his design he knitted together to be our package. ”