During a talk with Rob + Holly for the Friday Night Takeover, HARDY spoke proudly about his new album, COUNTRY! COUNTRY!, but even prouder about his wife Caleigh and their baby, Rosie.
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"I've always known she was tough, but it's different now," HARDY says of his wife after she delivered their baby girl in March. "I just have a different respect for her. Obviously, immediately watching my wife give birth was insane, but the big thing now is now that I'm going back on the road because I have to, it's my job, and she stays at home. I know how the nights can be and I know that they're hard and she doesn't really get a break. We don't do the nanny thing or anything like that."
"it's just us and the help that we have from our family that lives in Nashville, but she's doing it all on her own while I'm gone, and that's the respect I have for her now. That's why when I come home, I'm gonna help as much as I can because she's grinding while I'm gone for sure."
It's been tough to bring Rosie on the road for the new parents, as she has trouble staying asleep on the bus. As for the family not having a nanny, it comes down to wanting to raise their daughter themselves, together. It's a sentiment supported by fellow Country dad Luke Combs.
"There's no judgment toward anybody that has any help, but Luke Combs told me one time, it was just me and him, we were sitting out by a fire somewhere random, and he was like, 'man, we don't do it.' He's like, 'I go home and we're putting the kids to bed and we're giving them baths. That's just the way that we want to do it.'"
"Caleigh and I are just gonna try it because that's how we were raised and we want to raise our kids in a very nuclear mom and dad family, and we're just gonna try as hard as we can to not have any sort of paid help."
"Even though it's not gonna be normal, that'll come with its own set of challenges when it's like we wanna go to the county fair and walk around or we wanna go out to eat or whatever, and our kid having to deal with maybe that, but hopefully I'll be washed up by the time she's a teenager," he jokes.
To hear more from HARDY about dad life, his new album, meeting Metallica frontman James Hetfield and more, check out the full conversation above.