From C-sections to clapbacks! Maren Morris has been opening up about motherhood since giving birth to her and Ryan Hurd‘s son, Hayes, in March 2020.
“Hayes Andrew Hurd,” the country singer wrote via Instagram when the infant arrived. “3/23/20.”
The news came five months after the Texas native debuted her baby bump. “The irony is just too rich that after a year of living in the ‘GIRL’ headspace, the universe would give us a baby boy to even things out,” the “My Church” singer captioned her October 2019 announcement. “See you in 2020, little one.”
Hurd posted another shot of Morris’ budding belly to his own account at the time, writing, “MY BOYS CAN SWIM. BABY BOY HURD 2020! Look at her. Cannot believe this life with this girl. Also, thank you George Constanza for this caption that I’ve been sitting on my entire life.”
The Michigan native gushed exclusively to Us Weekly the following month about how “proud” he was of the Grammy winner. “This year has been so amazing for her and then to also be able to talk about baby news, it’s just been so special all around,” he said at the time.
“I definitely have to walk downstairs to get the ice cream now and take it back when we’re done,” Hurd went on to tell Us of pampering his pregnant wife. “I found out you’re supposed to do, like, a push present? So I’m figuring that thing out. I don’t know, I really am so new at this.”
Morris and the “Every Other Memory” singer tied the knot in March 2018 in Nashville and initially maintained a long-distance marriage. “We do a pretty good job at constantly keeping in contact, lots of FaceTime,” Hurd explained to Us in March 2019. “We have the same manager now, so she helps our calendars really coalesce well and that’s helped it a good bit.”
Since becoming parents, Morris has spoken candidly about the ups and downs of motherhood. Keep scrolling to read the “Rich” singer’s take on giving birth during a pandemic and more.
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Maren Morris’ Honest Quotes About Motherhood While Raising Her and Ryan Hurd’s Son Hayes
From C-sections to clapbacks! Maren Morris has been opening up about motherhood since giving birth to her and Ryan Hurd‘s son, Hayes, in March 2020.
“Hayes Andrew Hurd,” the country singer wrote via Instagram when the infant arrived. “3/23/20.”
The news came five months after the Texas native debuted her baby bump. “The irony is just too rich that after a year of living in the ‘GIRL’ headspace, the universe would give us a baby boy to even things out,” the “My Church” singer captioned her October 2019 announcement. “See you in 2020, little one.”
Hurd posted another shot of Morris’ budding belly to his own account at the time, writing, “MY BOYS CAN SWIM. BABY BOY HURD 2020! Look at her. Cannot believe this life with this girl. Also, thank you George Constanza for this caption that I’ve been sitting on my entire life.”
The Michigan native gushed exclusively to Us Weekly the following month about how “proud” he was of the Grammy winner. “This year has been so amazing for her and then to also be able to talk about baby news, it’s just been so special all around,” he said at the time.
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“I definitely have to walk downstairs to get the ice cream now and take it back when we’re done,” Hurd went on to tell Us of pampering his pregnant wife. “I found out you’re supposed to do, like, a push present? So I’m figuring that thing out. I don’t know, I really am so new at this.”
Morris and the “Every Other Memory” singer tied the knot in March 2018 in Nashville and initially maintained a long-distance marriage. “We do a pretty good job at constantly keeping in contact, lots of FaceTime,” Hurd explained to Us in March 2019. “We have the same manager now, so she helps our calendars really coalesce well and that’s helped it a good bit.”
Since becoming parents, Morris has spoken candidly about the ups and downs of motherhood. Keep scrolling to read the “Rich” singer’s take on giving birth during a pandemic and more.
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Welcome to the World
Morris called Hayes the “love” of her and Hurd’s lives in March 2020.
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C-Section Reflection
“30 hours of labor ended with an emergency C-section … not what we planned but I learned pretty quickly that night that having a plan for bringing a human into the world is a fool’s errand,” the new mom wrote via Instagram later that same month. “All that mattered was that he got here safely. Having him in the middle of [the coronavirus pandemic] was also not in the baby prep books, but here we are.”
She added at the time: “Holding him and healing my body in a maternity ward that’s eerily quiet from us not being allowed visitors or family at this time, but strangely serene. All we hear are monitors beeping and the coos of our infant son. Maybe the sound of the 100th episode of The Office @ryanhurd and I have binged while in here.”
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Baby Babble
The songwriter shared a video of herself cussing after her baby boy interrupted one of her Instagram Story videos in July 2020, writing, “When no one can help you film something and your baby wants to chime in.”
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Parenting Police
After Morris was criticized for posting a picture of herself and her son in a floatie without life vests in July 2020, she tweeted, “Honestly, I get so many criticisms of my motherhood on anything I post of Hayes, so I may just discontinue posting photos of him. Sucks but it’s kind of where I’m at. We talked about curbing posting photos anyway now that he’s a little bit older, but the added crap from (mostly other moms) folks definitely forced our hand.”
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Tackling Trolls
The American Music Award nominee went on to tell Andy Cohen that same month: “I would just have to say that anyone that is a mother who is shaming another mother, [that] obviously comes from just a deep insecurity in your own motherhood that you have to criticize someone else, especially who is brand new at this. We all feel like we suck in the beginning anyways.”
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Looking Back
“I felt, like a lot of mothers, really isolated really lonely right after because it was this unexpected surgery, a major surgery, I ended up getting,” Morris said of her “unintended” C-section in Little Spoon’s Is This Normal August 2020 video, noting that she wished she had “done a better job of preparing” herself for the possibility.
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Coronavirus Cutie
“We really couldn’t have asked for a more magical human to be brought into our lives during this crazy time, and he’s been a good distraction from not being able to tour,” Morris said during an August 2020 episode of The Bobby Bones Show.
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Candid Confession
The singer opened up in September 2020 about getting “back to normal” following her experience with postpartum depression. “I’m kind of coming through the tunnel now,” Morris said during a CBS This Morning appearance. “Fortunately, I was able to do phone therapy during the [coronavirus] pandemic. … And [I have] people that love me around me that are like, ‘Hey, if you’re drowning right now, there’s help.’”
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Half a Year
“He eats all the green foods I would never touch, and I think we’ve only heard him really cry four different times,” Morris wrote via Instagram in September 2020 while celebrating six months with her son. “We are honestly just waiting for the spell to wear off and he becomes a terror, but so far, he’s just been our sweet, sensitive son.”
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Giggling Guy
“I’ve been trying to make Hayes laugh for two months while other people do it so easily and today I realized, babies laugh when you laugh,” Morris captioned a September 2020 Instagram Story video of her son giggling.
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Prime Time
Morris told Radio.com in November 2020 that her “perfect” son had reached a “really fun age,” explaining, “He’s laughing at everything. … He loves music. He’s just the sweetest baby, and I get excited every day that I get to wake up and hang out with him.”
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Staying the Same
Being a mom isn’t “going to filter” Morris’ music, she told E! News in November 2020. “I am always going to say ‘s–t’ in songs probably.”
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Postpartum Positivity
“In this house, we Stan mom bellies,” Morris captioned a March 2022 Twitter selfie.
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Glasses Gang
“Hayes had to get glasses today and the entire household is now wearing fake frames (I have lasik) to inspire him to keep them on,” Morris told her Instagram followers in March 2022. “It’s not working so far lol.”
The songwriter later tweeted, “Hayes had to get glasses today and he looks so cute, but I also feel awful that I passed my awful eyesight onto him.”
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Cutest Cameo
Morris told Vulture in March 2022 that she was pregnant when she wrote “Hummingbird,” but by the time she recorded the track, her son was old enough to make a cameo. “Him saying ‘Mama’ was right during that moment in time, so that felt really full circle, just being able to put this song on the record and have that moment” she explained. “He’s the only feature on the whole project.”
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Following In Their Footsteps
“Oh, boy. My husband Ryan and I joke, we’re like, ‘I hope he’s an accountant, that he doesn’t end up in the music industry,'” Morris told Entertainment Tonight in August 2022. “But he probably will.”
The “Bones” songstress noted that Hayes is already a big fan of her tour bus and knows everyone on her team. “Maybe he can be in the band someday,” she added. “Maybe he’ll be my drummer or something and I won’t have to pay him as much.”
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Hitting the Road
“[Hayes] loves [riding my tour bus] a little too much,” Morris said during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in October 2022. “Like, some weekends I have to leave him home and he freaks out, like, he misses the road life. I don’t know what I’ve created; I think it’s cool that he’s so adaptable to it but also I’m, like, ‘This can’t be right for him to be so comfortable on wheels all the time in a new city.’”
The “Humble Quest” songstress gushed that Hayes is “loving” riding around with mom and getting to visit different cities’ children’s museums, aquariums and zoos. “He’s 2-and-a-half and really cultured,” she explained to Jimmy Kimmel.
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Becoming an Early Bird
The “Girl” musician revealed she was only interested in “Blue Haired Specials” now that she’s a mom.
“Maybe it’s 32, maybe it’s having a kid, but I’m not coming to your 8pm dinner invite,” Morris wrote via Twitter in November 2022. “HONEY. That is when I’m putting on face creams, I’m dimming the lights, the bra is off, the pen has been hit, I’m putting on The Office.”
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Losing Herself
The country crooner opened up about her struggle with postpartum depression while quarantining amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“I think a lot of identity crises happened there,” Morris said during a December 2022 appearance on Sunday Today With Willie Geist. “Not just being a new parent and a new mother and dealing with postpartum depression for the first time, and reeling from that, and trying to, like, find the forest through the trees. But also just knowing my worth without someone clapping for me.”
The Texas native credited her ability to “find the light” to husband Hurd, saying, “He kind of just helped me in song form, and in just conversation form.”
