💔 Big News from ‘OutDaughtered’: Danielle and Adam Busby Open Up About Their Daughter’s Health – Plus, Baby Plans Revealed! 🍼🌈

OutDaughtered viewers have seen Danielle and Adam Busby speak about their daughter, Parker, having anxiety—and recently, they gave fans an update on how she’s doing now.

On June 26, the parents of six opened up about Parker’s journey on their More Than Reality Podcast. She is one of the TLC stars’ 10-year-old quintuplets along with Ava, Olivia, Riley and Hazel. (They also share an older daughter, Blayke, 14.)

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“A lot of people have been asking about Parker because we went down that road with Parker where we’d started noticing at a very young age she had anxiety,” Adam said during the podcast episode. “We did something on the show to kind of highlight what we were doing to seek help, what we were doing to like work with her and stuff.”

Since then, Parker has made impressive strides in coping with feelings of anxiety.

“I mean I even am like, ‘I can’t believe this used to be my most anxious child who needed some form of security all the time,’” Danielle said.

The OutDaughtered production team also noticed a marked difference in Parker after the show’s two-to-three-year hiatus.

“Whenever the crew came back, they were like, ‘Is this the same kid?’” Adam shared. “A big part of her coming out of her shell is just her being comfortable in her own skin and realizing just how good she is at stuff…That gave her a lot of confidence.”

Danielle explained that parental encouragement has been a major factor in helping Parker navigate anxiety.

“‘You can do this, let’s try it’—it’s baby steps even though at times it might not be something she wants to do, but we know it’s something that could help her,” the busy mom shared. “We can tell she wants to do it but the anxiousness holds her back.”

Signs the Busbys noticed in Parker when she was younger included getting an upset stomach at times and then “spontaneously” throwing up, putting her hands over her ears when she got overwhelmed in large groups of people and more.

Helping her mentally prepare for events or activities that might trigger anxiety symptoms is one way Adam and Danielle have helped their daughter in addition to aiding her in finding her voice to express her thoughts and feelings. Dance classes helped build her confidence, too.