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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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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?)
Nice fake name, John. I never said I hated Christians. This family isn’t Christian. They’re f**king nuts. There’s a difference.