Duck Dynasty star Sadie Robertson previously got vulnerable with fans when talking about a horrifying incident involving her third child, Kit Carroway Huff. Earlier this year, when Kit was just seven months old, she suddenly started choking. It all happened so quickly, and in an April update shared with her followers on Instagram, she revealed that she was “walking through the waves of anxiety from the trauma of the situation.” She was, of course, also extremely grateful for her daughter’s recovery.
But unfortunately, the scare didn’t end there. Kit experienced another choking incident as well, which made it clear that something was wrong.
Sadie previously opened up about the ordeal.
In an Instagram post in April, she explained why she had been relatively quiet on social media: she had just experienced every parent’s worst nightmare. “Kit was sitting in her high chair this week, eating a snack while I was finishing up dinner prep, when she began to choke,” Sadie wrote at the time. “Within seconds, you could tell the severity of the situation.”
Luckily, she knew what to do, paramedics arrived, and Kit was treated at the hospital, later leaving “perfectly healthy, happy, and brightening everyone’s day!”
Understandably, Sadie had thought and hoped that this was just a one-time scare. But instead, the same thing happened again shortly after that. “Praise the Lord that for such a scary and life-threatening event we had, it was a relatively small fix, because of the incredible doctors, and she is healing now,” Sadie wrote in an update in May.
She later went into more detail on her podcast.
In some ways, it sounds like the second incident was even more horrifying than the first because of what is signaled. “We knew this is something different,” Sadie’s husband, Christian, said on the podcast. “She’s not just joking. Something is wrong.”
Eventually, doctors diagnosed Kit with severe laryngomalacia, which is a common issue affecting newborns and usually is not serious. However, some cases are severe and can lead to complications like breathing issues, per Cleveland Clinic.
Now, months later, Sadie has shared another update.
Understandably, as parents, Sadie and her husband just wanted their daughter to be OK again. But things weren’t so simple for the family. Luckily, Kit, who is now 14 months old is doing well now, Sadie recently told Us Weekly.
“She’s doing amazing. I’m so grateful. It was a journey,” Sadie told the publication. “It wasn’t like we had surgery and then it was all better. I think that was the hardest part … ‘cause so many times you just wanna fix the problem, and we realized, ‘OK, this is kind of a new normal we’re living in for a little bit.'”
“She is such a strong girl. She’s such a little overcomer,” Sadie added. “I’m like, ‘That girl is gonna rock the world.’ She is so strong, so we’re so proud of her. She’s doing so good. She’s just amazing. At church [on] Sunday, she [was] literally worshipping the whole time as a 1-year-old, and I was like, ‘Yeah, she’s different.'”
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