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It's a girl! Duggars welcome 18th child
Ever-growing Arkansas family adds a holiday bundle-of-joy to their brood
The Duggar bunch


Michelle Duggar has given birth to her 18th child.

The Arkansas supermom delivered the baby girl by Caesarean section Thursday at Mercy Medical Center in Rogers. The baby, named Jordyn-Grace Makiya Duggar, weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces and was 20 inches long.

"The ultimate Christmas gift from God," said Jim Bob Duggar, the father of the 18 children. "She's just absolutely beautiful, like her mom and her sisters."

The Duggars now have 10 sons and eight daughters.

Jim Bob Duggar said Michelle started having contractions Wednesday night. She needed the C-section, her third, because the baby was lying sideways. Jim Bob said both baby and mother were doing well Thursday night.

"We both would love to have more," he said.

The cable network TLC broadcasts a weekly show about the Duggars, called "Seventeen and Counting." Chris Finnegan of TLC — which handles public relations for the Duggar family — said the show's name would be updated to account for the latest addition to the family. He said TLC also will air a show Monday on the baby's delivery.

Jim Bob Duggar is 43, a year older than his wife. Their oldest child, Joshua, is 20.

"Our whole family is excited about Jordyn's addition to our family," Jim Bob Duggar said. "She's just perfect in every way."

All about family
With the latest addition, the Duggars’ 18 natural children range in age from 20 years to one day old. Included in the mix are 10 boys and now eight girls — Joshua, twins Jana and John-David, Jill, Jessa, Jinger, Joseph, Josiah, Joy-Anna, twins Jedidiah and Jeremiah, Jason, James, Justin, Jackson, Johannah, Jennifer, and Jordyn-Grace.

With two sets of twins, Michelle, has gone through 15 pregnancies that ended in 13 natural deliveries and two Caesarean sections.

Both Michelle and Jim Bob — a former state legislator who served in the Arkansas House of Representatives — are real estate agents. They claim their family is debt-free, with the entire bunch helping to build their 7,000-square-foot home in Tontitown. And they are enriched by a devout faith in their religion.


The Duggars are followers of the evangelical Christian movement called Quiverful, which teaches that children are God’s blessing and that husbands and wives should happily welcome every child they are given. In fact, the Duggars' Web site, duggarfamily.com, quotes “Children are a heritage of the Lord” from verse 3 of the 123rd Psalm.
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Like throwing a hot dog down a hallway

Like throwing a piece of pipe down a stairwell
 
It sounds insane but if they can afford it and they are happy, good for them.:shrug:
 
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I'm happy for the family, and I hope they have as many more kids as they wish but, to me, this just screamed out for a poster.
 
Don't like kids and have avoided having them like the plague all these years so this truly baffles me. But if they can support and want them I'm 100% behind em.
 
johnlocke said:
Don't like kids and have avoided having them like the plague all these years so this truly baffles me. But if they can support and want them I'm 100% behind em.
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I like people like you. I think a lot of people have kids because they are "supposed" to. I like people who realize they never want them to begin with.
 
Deus Irae said:
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I'm happy for the family, and I hope they have as many more kids as they wish but, to me, this just screamed out for a poster.
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ROFL

YES! When I saw this thread, I KNEW that pic had to be posted in here eventually. ROFL
 
You gotta think at that point (not withstanding the c-section due to lying sideways) that it'd be something along the line of:

"Honey, it's time"

Drive to hospital, get into delivery ward.

Doc: "Ok, now I need you to pu..."

*squirt* "waaaaahhhh"

Doc : "sh... errr.. congratulations"
 
I just found out that the family is on a TLC series called "17 Kids and Counting".
Michelle was named Young Mother of the Year in Arkansas in 2004. I can't image giving birth 18 times!
 
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