Julianne Hough sent a sweet message to her brother Derek Hough and his wife Hayley Erbert after they announced the birth of their first child together.
The Dancing With the Stars co-host, 37, celebrated the birth of her niece, Everly Capri Hough, after Derek, 40, and Hayley, 31, shared the happy news via Instagram on Monday.
‘Welcome to the world sweet angel Everley,’ she commented on the post, which featured a sweet black-and-white photo of the newborn’s feet along with details behind Everly’s birth.
She also re-posted the announcement photo to her Instagram Stories along with the message, ‘Baby girl has arrived.’
The announcement read: ‘December 29, 2025. Everley Capri Hough (white heart emoji). Every step of our lives has led us to you. Our hearts have been cracked wide open and our world is forever changed.’
The arrival comes several months after the couple revealed they had suffered a heartbreaking miscarriage prior to Erbert becoming pregnant with Everly.
Julianne Hough, 37, sent a sweet message to her brother Derek Hough, 40, and his wife Hayley Erbert, 31, after they announced the birth of their first child together; Julianne seen in 2025
The Dancing With the Stars co-host celebrated the birth of her niece, Everly Capri Hough, after Derek and Hayley shared the happy news via Instagram on Monday; The pair pictured in 2024
Hough and his wife announced they were expecting a child back in July with video showing their child’s sonogram.
‘Although we are so excited to be welcoming our rainbow baby so soon, we honor our baby that never made it earthside,’ they revealed in October.
The term ‘rainbow baby’ refers to a child who is born to a woman who previously suffered a miscarriage.
The arrival marks a bright new chapter for the pair, after Erbert underwent an emergency brain surgery for cranial hematoma in December 2023.
Erbert was rushed to the hospital after suffering a cranial hematoma in December 2023 while they were performing at their Symphony of Dance tour in Washington D.C. and subsequently underwent an emergency craniectomy.
A cranial hematoma happens when blood accumulates, ‘within the brain or between the brain and the skull,’ according to Mayo Clinic.
Weeks later the Step Into… The Movies dancer underwent a cranioplasty to replace a large portion of her skull, which had been removed during the emergency procedure.
Erbert’s recovery was so successful, the couple were able to complete their 70 city Symphony of Dance tour, which ended May 19, 2024.
‘Welcome to the world sweet angel Everley,’ she commented on the post, which featured a sweet black-and-white photo of the newborn’s feet along with details behind Everly’s birth
She also re-posted the announcement photo to her Instagram Stories along with the message, ‘Baby girl has arrived’
The announcement read: ‘December 29, 2025. Everley Capri Hough. Every step of our lives has led us to you. Our hearts have been cracked wide open and our world is forever changed’
Erbert had been chronicling her pregnancy online. The couple’s child was born on December 29, 2025
Erbert and her husband suffered a heartbreaking miscarriage prior to becoming pregnant with Everly; The pair are pictured in 2025
Hayley has also endured a terrifying cranial hematoma in 2023
Since her surgery, the couple went on to celebrate their first wedding anniversary on August 26, 2024.
In 2024, the couple recounted the terrifying health scare on an episode of Dancing With The Stars.
‘I was on stage, and she’s supposed to come out,’ Derek shared. ‘The stage manager walked out and just said, “Hey, she’s not coming on stage.” She was on the side of the stage having full seizures and, essentially, dying. It’s really hard to even put into words other than just pure fear.’
‘We rush her to the hospital, she’s still in her costume, and the doctor came to me and he said that, “She has a severe brain bleed, so we have to operate right now.”‘
‘He said that she might not make it and that even if she does make it, she won’t be the same person.’
Derek then remembered the moment when his wife woke up. ‘She goes, “What happened? Weren’t we just dancing?”‘
‘I can’t even tell you, just knowing that she was there, she was in there, the relief I felt. She was Hayley. She was my wife. And then the journey began.’
Julianne and Derek are siblings and longtime Dancing With the Stars standouts, both rising to fame as professional dancers; Seen in 2019
He then shared that her recovery included learning how to walk again and wearing a helmet as her skull recovered.
‘I was struggling. I was just so impressed by her strength. She’s my beautiful miracle,’ he said.
Hayley then shared that when she woke up doctors told her she might not be able to walk.
However, Hayley didn’t accept that possibility, sharing that as a ‘stubborn’ person she ‘pushed herself to the limit’ to not only walk, but to also dance again.
