Jinger and Anna Duggar Support Family Friend Carlin Bates Amid Daughter Layla’s Health Issues
What friends are for. Jinger Vuolo (nĂ©e Duggar) and Anna Duggar took to Instagram to share their support for family friend Carlin Bates after she revealed 3-month-old daughter Laylaâs health issues.
âYou are such an amazing Momma, keeping Layla in our prayers! Godâs got this and He will get you safely through! [pink revolving hearts emoji],â Anna, 31, wrote in the comments.
Jinger, 26, also shared a sweet message for Carlin, 22, and her baby girl. âCar, this is all so unthinkably difficult. My thoughts and prayers are with you all and your sweet baby Layla. [folded hands emoji] [blue heart emoji]. May God grant you His perfect peace in [these] days,â she wrote.

The Duggar ladies sent their sweet messages to the Bringing Up Bates star after she opened up about what sheâs been going through with little Layla via Instagram. Carlin explained since Laylaâs birth on January 31, the hospital has become their âsecond homeâ because of her health issues.
âSince Layla was born, she has had breathing problems and episodes of turning blue where she canât catch her breath. When this first started happening, we thought, âWell maybe itâs because she was premature so thatâs whatâs causing her to struggle more,'â Carlin wrote.
The UPtv star explained she recently became very sick with meningitis. Because doctors couldnât figure out what Carlin had at first, her sister Erin Bates cared for baby Layla. The next day, Erin, 29, called and said Layla was experiencing ârapid breathingâ and âturning blue.â Layla was rushed to a nearby childrenâs hospital. âI was overcome with fear of the unknown, along with feeling guilty that I could not be there with her,â Carlin wrote.
Carlinâs husband, Evan Stewart, spent his time going back and forth between different hospitals to be there for both his wife and his daughter. Once Carlin was able to leave the hospital, she went to visit Layla. Doctors told her and Evan, 24, that Laylaâs electrocardiographic (EKG) levels werenât âreading right,â and they followed up with an appointment to see a heart specialist.

âWe found out Layla has a small hole in her heart, which might be causing some of the breathing issues,â Carlin continued. âThe doctor encouraged us not to worry, because they would keep a close eye on it, and our prayer is that this small hole will close itself, as they often do. We then ordered Layla a special sock that monitors her heart rate and O2 levels, because this nervous mother couldnât sleep at night!â
But Carlin said Layla had another recent health scare. âShe turned white and her O2 levels dropped to 80 percent. Again, I feel like my world was turned upside down as I hold her in my arms. I felt so helpless watching her struggle for oxygen,â she wrote. The reality TV starâs sister Michaella Bates waited with them until an ambulance arrived. About 10 minutes later, Laylaâs color returned and her O2 levels raised to 100 percent. The EMTs told Carlin and Evan to not take Layla to the local hospital because of the coronavirus pandemic, so they made a followup appointment with Laylaâs pediatrician. Her doctor determined an âacid reflux episodeâ may have caused the O2 drop and placed Layla on medication.
âAlthough weâre still so nervous about the outcomes of everything, I know my God is in control and heâs writing our little story,â she concluded. âBecoming a mother has grown me in so many ways, and I am beyond blessed that God gave me this little girl.â
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