Dancing With the Stars pros Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd recently had a beautiful baby boy, and in an interview with ABC News, Maksim opened up about the day they had to rush him to the emergency room.

Baby Shai developed a fever when he was just a few weeks old, so the couple had to take him to the hospital.

“We were so, like, not prepared for the protocol [and] procedure that happened at the emergency rooms with infants that small,” he said to ABC News. “Nobody really ever told us anything about that. It was a big shock to the mind and to the heart. You start to see a little IV on a little baby and you’re like, ‘Oh my God, this is crazy.’ It was a lot for us.”

Thankfully, the situation ended well and Shai is back to good health.

“I’m such an overprotective, over-thinking, over-planning type of person,” he continued. “You can’t foresee some things; you can try your best… We’ve gone through a lot of stuff with him already — some drama and traumatic experiences. That’s why I’m kind of like, ‘Let’s not take him on set…’

“I wanted to have tangible things to give him. I’m not talking money. I’m talking abilities,” he said. “[I wanted him] maybe not be raised in a one bedroom apartment like [my brother] Val and I were raised in. There’s nothing wrong with that, but that’s not what I wanted for my child. I had a very clear vision of how I want to become a father and that’s exactly what I’m living now,” he continued. “Peta and I were talking about this before — like we dreamt this and now this is happening.”

Courtesy of ABC News.