Southern Charm star Madison LeCroy had a happy homecoming for her daughter, Teddi.
“We’re finally home … all together,” Madison, 34, captioned an Instagram post on Sunday, July 13. “After 2 weeks of back and forth to the NICU, today we brought our sweet Teddi girl home and I truly don’t have the words (but I’ll try).”
The reality star continued, “Watching Hudson hold his baby sister, seeing Brett step into this role with so much love, and just standing in my doorway with my arms full and my heart even fuller … this is it. This is the life I’ve prayed for, dreamed of, and now finally get to live. She’s home, we’re whole, and I’ve never felt more at peace.”
Madison and husband Brett Randle welcomed their daughter at 34 weeks on June 29. She announced the news to fans via Amazon Live earlier this month. (She is already the mother to 12-year-old son Hudson, whom she shares with ex-husband Josh Hughes.)
“I was in labor for 48 hours basically [because] my water broke at home,” she told Us Weekly exclusively ahead of her birth announcement, noting that the labor was a “crazy” experience. Madison was celebrating her mom’s birthday while Brett, a California firefighter, was at work.
“I ran upstairs, and I was like, ‘Mom, I don’t have anything packed.’ It was funny ’cause me and her both were like in my closet trying to pick out what we were gonna wear to the hospital,” Madison recalled. “We kind of prolonged the labor and Brett got here and then we waited another day and had the C-section and there she was five minutes later.”
Teddi, named after Madison’s father, was “only five pounds” and because of her early birth was initially kept in the NICU.
“She’s breathing on her own and hasn’t needed any oxygen or anything like that. She’s kind of a little trooper,” Madison added. “[Doctors] were shocked with how early she was that she was gonna be this independent. So, I was like, ‘Oh, I wasn’t shocked at all.’”
Rocking out to Taylor Swift throughout the surgery probably helped a little, too.
“That’s what she was born to. Now don’t ask me what song, because at that point I don’t have no idea,” Madison quipped. “But yeah, girl mode all the way.”
Despite just having given birth, Madison is ready for round three.
“I’m already, like, planning the third,” she told Us. “I’m like, ‘We gotta do this again.’ This is so fun.”
