The Dancing with the Stars alum and his spouse introduced that they are anticipating their first baby along with a candy video posted to Instagram Tuesday. Within the clip, Derek walks over to Hayley and the 2 embrace whereas overlooking a stunning scenic backdrop. As they hug and maintain one another within the sunshine, Hayley holds up a strip of sonogram images, beaming with pleasure.

“We will not imagine the largest factor to occur to us may very well be so small ,” the couple captioned the joint submit.

Derek and Hayley have been open about wanting to start out a household, with the dance professional telling E! Information final 12 months that increasing their dance crew was on their radar.

“We undoubtedly wish to have a household finally,” Hough mentioned on the time. “We’ll see what’s within the playing cards, what’s on the horizon. Little dancing youngsters working round.”

The couple’s child fever got here after assembly Val Chmerkovskiy and Jenna Johnson’s new child again in 2023.

“There wasn’t a rush on [thinking about kids] till we simply met Val and Jenna Chmerkovskiy’s child, and that was when it was kinda like, ‘Ought to we get on this now?’” Hayley informed Leisure Tonight on the time.

And Val clearly helped seal the deal, with Derek recalled the recommendation his fellow DWTS professional gave him about changing into a dad: “Bro, for any individual who creates, this can be your final creation.”

The completely happy information additionally comes greater than a 12 months after Hayley was hospitalized after she turned “disoriented” throughout a efficiency in Washington, D.C., on their joint Symphony of Dance tour.

“She was identified with a cranial hematoma from a burst blood vessel and required an emergency craniectomy,” Derek wrote on Instagram in December 2023 of the scary second, which got here simply months after the pair tied the knot. “I ask to your prayers and positivity throughout this time.”

Hayley was given medical clearance to renew performing in April 2024, however the ordeal shook the newlyweds.

“After three months of getting married, it was like, ‘Oh, we’re placing these vows to the check actual quick,’” Derek informed E! Information in March. “However it’s been fantastic. It is stunning. We have had a unprecedented 12 months of triumph, of problem and we’re right here having time.”

Actually, the 2 are extra grateful than ever to proceed performing collectively, with Derek including, “We’re truly actually lucky. We had been simply being grateful day by day. There’s a lot to be thankful for.”