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UPDATE: The Duggars are expecting their 18th child.
An Arkansas couple had a baby daughter Thursday — their 17th child and seventh girl — and the pair say they’re still not ready to give it a rest.
Jennifer Danielle was born at 10:01 a.m. at a hospital in Rogers, Arkansas, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar said in an interview.
“We’d love to have more,” Michelle said, referring to baby girls. “We love the ruffles and lace.”
Jennifer joins the fast-growing Duggar brood, who live in a 7,000-square-foot (650-square-meter) home in Tontitown. All the children — whose names start with the letter J — are taught at home.
The oldest is 19 and the youngest, before Jennifer, is almost 2 years old.
“We are just so grateful to God for another gift from him,” said Jim Bob Duggar, a former state representative. “We are just so thankful to him that everything went just very well.”
Jennifer joins siblings: Joshua, 19; John David, 17; Janna, 17; Jill, 16; Jessa, 14; Jinger, 13; Joseph, 12; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 9; Jedidiah, 8; Jeremiah, 8; Jason 7; James 6; Justin, 4; Jackson, 3; Johannah, almost 2.
Michelle Duggar said she started feeling contractions Wednesday night and went to the hospital at about 5 a.m. Thursday.
“It actually went fast,” she said. “I guess once I started progressing, it went within 30 minutes.”
The Duggars have been featured on several programs on cable television’s Discovery Health Network. The next special, the Duggar Family Album, is scheduled to air next month, Jim Bob Duggar said.
Among the “fun facts” listed on Discovery Health’s Web page devoted to the Duggars: A baby has been born in every month except June; the Duggars have gone through an estimated 90,000 diapers, and Michelle has been pregnant for 126 months — or 10.5 years — of her life.
Wait – did she say she had the baby in 30 minutes? 30 MINUTES!?!?!? Can you imagine? Well, yeah – at this point, it’s basically like a water slide in there.
Nice fake name, John. I never said I hated Christians. This family isn’t Christian. They’re f**king nuts. There’s a difference.
i actually like the personalities that some of the kids show when the camera crew talks to them individually. some of the older kids are really bright and have independent thoughts.
which is more than I can say for some of the people on this blog who seem to be anti-home school, against choice, hate Christians, and think the world is overpopulated (ever seen the earth from the sky and notice all the uninhabited spaces?)
Kristine/Kris (same bitch, different day), you’ve posted about 15 messages on here so far. Just so you know, you’re a moron. Please, please, please get a life.
Jayne: When your “differnet strokes” (breeding like rabbits — btw a vagina isn’t a clown car) are a massive deteriment to us other folks, then we have a problem. And we’re going to call you on it. Period.
Kaylee: Eh, lets see if you feel the same way when you have to pass a cantelope. Until then, kid, shut the ƒuck up.
Homeschool mom.. You wish. BTW, the cops are watching you — so don’t even think about killing your kids.
BTW, i haven’t actually seen the bathing suit episodes, just heard and read about them. Do the boys have to wear weird-ass covering bathing suits, too? Or is it just the girls?
old man Duggar really ought to give his wife a rest ….
and he should stop spraying on all that hairspray around when his wife is pregnant…could be dangerous for the baby….
why does everyone here talk about Michelle when there’s two of them involved here? You are all just blaming and focusing on the woman.
Shows how stupid and sexist you all are in your thinking.
And modesty is one thing but have you seen the bathing suits these girls wear?? Its not teaching them about what the real world is like when and if they ever get out of the house into the real world. How will they ever function without the training of how people really are?
I personally think that its not fair to the older children to be forced to take care of the younger ones. It is not their choice to have 18 siblings. Each of the elders is paired to a younger one on outings.
Annie and Kris: They don’t allow dancing. Doesn’t that seem kind of f**ked up to you? This isn’t the dark ages. No “amen” for that.
Annie… they don’t allow dancing.
That doesn’t seem kind of ƒucked up to you? This isn’t the dark ages..
Aren’t the parents in some kind of legal trouble or something? Anybody remember that?
Jim Bob should give his wife a break from sex for spiritual reasons. It’s not Christian to exhuast your wife the way he does. SHe wants to please him and he should act like the head of the household in all ways.
I don’t faithfully watch the show so I have missed many episodes. I too have a family, a job and go to school do further my education to make a better life for my children since I don’t have a TV show to do it for me, but in the last episode I watched she had had her 18th child and did not look so good. A c/s takes a lot out of a younger woman I know she is feeling this one. I did not like it when they went shopping for the new baby’s layette her husband was so worried about the $$$ being spent on possibly the “last” baby. She and the girls looked so happy to be getting something new for a change. And what is with their religion that they are not allowed to dance, even the small children are not able to express themselves through dance, interesting. Dance is used as an individual emotion and expression. They are not allowed to be individuals or express themselves? I have often wondered if they recycle as well. Like I said before I give them credit for being a self sufficient family not living off the system and for coming up with creative ways to get income, like this show but at what future price?
The article says, “90,000 diapers.” Thanks to the Duggars, our planet will be remembering them for hundreds of years to come. It has to be fun to let the media support your children.
Can we knock off the rude comments about homeschooled kids? I’m a homeschool mom and know my teaching limits. What I can’t teach, I send my child out for. Believe it or not, homeschool parents do have a brain.
BTW- my homeschooled third grader has better spelling and grammar skills than those of you with the condescending attitude.
Annie,
Amen and Amen.
Kris
Although I would not desire that many children, I applaud them for several things.
1. They aren’t afraid to teach morals, and restrict their children from the internet, sitcom tv, and admit to everyone that without God in their lives, they are nothing.
2. They practice what they preach, they aren’t hippocrites.
3. They don’t expect the world to give them food stamps, SSI, or anything else considered a drain on society. They are self- supporting, responsible with finances, and teach their children the same values.
4. Thank God the children have responsibilities at home which include REAL chores! Look at all the malls today, and see the true atrocity; a latch-key generation who are spending their parents hard- earned cash on sexy clothing and useless trinkets.
The list could go on, but I will summarize in a few words:
The negative nasty comments probably come from guilty folks who let the world raise their kids, and who let greed and apathy dictate their lives.
The entire problems of the world can be summed up by lack of a clear cut value system. People change their values based on the media.
I say greed and lack of morals and lack of a WORK ETHIC are the true culprits. Be careful who you judge and criticize.
Religion still being used as an excuse to pop out kids.
The overpopulation argument is a myth. As I’ve stated before, the problem is distribution and poor policy, not too many people. I live in rural Oregon. I look out and there is nothing for miles. There’s plenty of room here for more people.
Folks who claim “overpopulation” need to spend more time doing their homework. Instead of overpopulation, we are actually in a demographic winter. Eighty countries are below population replacement. That means there are going to be A LOT of old folks and no one to take care of them. Talk about a recipe for economic disaster.
Either way, it is not for others to judge how people choose to live. Perhaps you are offended by Christians in general? If they weren’t Christians, would you think differently about them than you do now? Just curious.
By the way, it is not their “religion” that tells them to have more children. It is their personal conviction, born out of their “relationship” with God.
Folks who believe in leaving the number of children they have up to the God are not all from the same religion. This is a movement that crosses denomination and religious barriers. It is made up of people who have rejected the usual “status quo” and chosen something different for their families. NOT WRONG, JUST DIFFERENT.
And we are talking about human beings here, not rabbits. The same language one would use for animals is not appropriate to use when speaking of human beings. Not even here on the farm.
The overpopulation argument is a myth. As I’ve stated before, the problem is distribution and poor policy, not too many people. I live in rural Oregon. I look out and there is nothing for miles. There’s plenty of room here for more people.
Folks who claim “overpopulation” need to spend more time doing their homework. Instead of overpopulation, we are actually in a demographic winter. Eighty countries are below population replacement. That means there are going to be A LOT of old folks and no one to take care of them. Talk about a recipe for economic disaster.
Either way, it is not for others to judge how people choose to live. Perhaps you are offended by Christians in general? If they weren’t Christians, would you think differently about them than you do now? Just curious.
By the way, it is not their “religion” that tells them to have more children. It is their personal conviction, born out of their “relationship” with God.
Folks who believe in leaving the number of children they have up to the God are not all from the same religion. This is a movement that crosses denomination and religious barriers. It is made up of people who have rejected the usual “status quo” and chosen something different for their families. NOT WRONG, JUST DIFFERENT.
We are not all called to do something like this. And that is a good thing.
This world is over populated as it is and to bring so many children in to it is irresponsible. Yes, they are providing for themselves which is a great accomplishment but I think it is funny that they call being able to have a baby “a gift” and not “we are having sex at the right time so that is why we are having babies”. I know not everyone is lucky to be able to bring a child in to this world but give me a break, these are two people making like bunnies without worrying about a thing. And I just love they use religion as an excuse for everything.
I meant to say should ever be persecuted for. Typo! Sorry!