Hey 19! Duggars expecting again
According to Insider.com yesterday:
Michelle [42] and Jim Bob Duggar [44], parents of 18 with a granddaughter on the way, made a big announcement Tuesday morning.
The Duggars, stars of the TLC show 18 Kids and Counting, shared the news on the Today show that they are expecting their 19th baby! Their son Joshua and daughter-in-law Anna are also expecting, with their baby girl due to arrive this fall….
Michelle shared her thoughts on being pregnant on her TLC blog. In a post titled, “Baby News Surprises Everyone, Even Mama,” the mom of nearly 20 children wrote that she had believed her childbearing years to be concluded, until she was pleasantly surprised to be pregnant again. “I don’t take pregnancy for granted, either,” she wrote. “I thought we might be done. I was a little sad about it, but I just accepted it was a stage of my life and perhaps God felt my family was complete.”
She also wrote about being pregnant while her daughter-in-law is also expecting: “You know, it’s funny being pregnant when expecting our first grandchild. If my mom were here, she’d be crying. This is just like my mom and my sister….
Michelle added, “Anna is really such a cute pregnant mommy. She has only 7 weeks left. They’ve taken all their classes on natural childbirth and we’re just hoping for uneventful, healthy delivery for her, and then for me!”
More from The Daily Mail:
A couple with 18 children all with names beginning with ‘J’ are to welcome another baby into the family – but this time the child will be christened with the letter ‘M’.
Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar, who revealed they are expecting their 19th child in March, will next month receive their first grandchild – Mackynzie Renee.
Their eldest son Josh and his wife Anna, both 21, will have the baby girl just nine months after his most recent sibling, Jordyn-Grace, was born….
Anna and Josh live with his parents in the debt-free house they built themselves along with twin siblings Jana and John-David, 19, Jill, 18, Jessa, 16, Jinger, 15, Joseph, 14, Josiah, 13, Joy-Anna, 11, twins Jedidiah and Jeremiah, 10, Jason, 9, James, 8, Justin, 5; Jackson, 5; Johanna, 3, Jennifer, 2, and Jordyn-Grace, 8 months….
Despite being pregnant 18 times before, Michelle says this pregnancy came as a shock.
‘I was in WeightWatchers with Jim Bob and I wasn’t losing any weight,’ she said. ‘I couldn’t figure it out. I was doing what I should. And the baby, who was nursing, was fussy. I kept thinking, “This isn’t right. She isn’t teething, she doesn’t have an ear infection. I’m not cheating on my diet, I should be losing weight.” Then, I put 2 and 2 together and wondered if I could possibly be pregnant.’
‘I told Jim Bob and he couldn’t keep it in, he was so excited,’ she said.
‘The kids were outside playing on a water slide and he gathered them together and had to share the news. There was all this screaming and yelling.’
Michelle has now been pregnant 147 months of her life, with 5 more to go….
They adhere to a movement called Quiverfull, whose members take seriously the biblical exhortation to be fruitful and multiply and believe that every child is a gift from Providence….
Congratulations to the Duggars, wonderful Christian examples in so many ways.
HT: Arina and Laura Loo; all photos via TLC; Scripture graphic via Quiverfull]

Congratulations to the Duggars!
Congratulations seems so inadequate.
I’d like to give them a standing ovation.
Ok, I just did, by myself.
How weird is that?
What a great family!
Jim Bob Duggar,
Congrats to you and Michelle. What an awsome example and testimony you are the body of Christ to the faithfulness of God those who know and love him.
If you read this please email me.
The moderators on this site have my email.
My daughter and I had dinner and spent the night with you at your ‘in session’ home in Little Rock around ten years ago.
yor bro ken
God bless the Duggar family. :)
Wow…I can’t imagine having nineteen children. But congratulations on your good news, Duggars. :)
You’re such a sweet family. Hopefully this will be another happy and healthy pregnancy for you. :)
I am amazed by this family and so happy for them!! 19!!!! :) God bless you!
I WANT TO SAY I LOVE THE WAY YOU ALL DO THINGS. I LOVE TO WATCH YOUR SHOW EVERYDAY. I CAN NOT WAIT TO SEE JOSH AND ANNA’S BABY. I ALSO AM HAPPY TO HEAR THAT MICHELLE IS HAVING ANOTHER ONE.. I FEEL THE SAME WAY. IF GOD WANTS ME TO BE THE ONE TO HAVE AS MANY KIDS AS HE THINKS I CAN HANDLE.. I KNOW GOD WILL NOT GIVE NO ONE MORE THAN THEY CAN HANDLE.. I HAVE TWO KIDS ONE IN HEAVEN AND A LITTLE GIRL THAT IS ALMOST 9 MONTHS OLD. MY 1ST ONE DIED 11 DAYS BEFORE HIS 3RD BIRTHDAY. FROM BRAIN DEAD AND CP.. BUT IT MADE ME LOOK AT LIFE A WHOLE NEW WAY.. I DON’T TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED ANYMORE. SO I HAVE MY ARMS OPEN TO WHAT EVER HE HAS IN STORE FOR ME… I HOPE EVERY THING GOES VERY WELL WITH YOU ALL.. THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME TELL MY STORY TO YOU ALL.
THANK YOU,
MICHELLE FROM GEORGIA
Thank you, Michelle, for your example! God bless you!
Ha! Number 19. How awesome is that?
Better watch out, Mrs. Duggar. Wait’ll John Holdren gets a hold of you!…
I think the difference between the Duggars and jon and Kate Gosselin is like night and day.
The Duggars are financially responsible, feed, clothe, and educate their children and view children as a BLESSING…and look how beautifully their family functions.
I think Michelle Duggar is the mother of the century! God bless her and her new baby!
I love this family. They are a joy to watch.
Totally outa control!!! :-) Best wishes and prayers for the Duggars!
This is such wonderful news. God bless Mr and Mrs Duggar for their wonderful pro life witness.
I wouldn’t ever want to have nineteen kids, but congratulations to them on the arriving baby. All pregnancies are good news in my book.
Sounds like father of the bride 2, minus 5 kids. I loved that movie.
I would never want to be pregnant that much of my life, but if mom is happy then congratulations to her and the family.
I read that the Duggars are asking for suggestions for new “J” baby names. How about Julie and Julian….
Vaginas aren’t clown cars and they should be spayed and neutered, this is what is being said at the blogs of the bastions of open-mindedness and tolerance, the blogs of feminists and left-leaning bloggers. What ever happened to “reproductive rights” “pro-choice, whatever that choice may be” and “a private decision between a woman, her god, and her doctor”? Whoops, guess it only applies to abortion.
Rachael,
Can you imagine getting that kind of crap because you are thrilled to be pregnant with every child God gives you??!! The ugliness. Wow.
They truly must be frightened or intimidated by joy.
“Vaginas aren’t clown cars and they should be spayed and neutered..”
Some women can’t STAND the fact that they were born women. That’s the only thing that can explain the vitriol.
How sad for them and those they influence.
No, Carla, just extremely closed-minded to values and views different than their own, the same closed-mindedness they accuse us of, pot meet kettle…
And congratulations to the Duggars on their expecting gift.
I hope they have another girl……actually it’d be funny if they had twin girls and they finally had 10 of each. ;) However, that’s probably not going to happen.
“I hope they have another girl……actually it’d be funny if they had twin girls and they finally had 10 of each. ;)”
Liz, that would be cool! Can you imagine all the grandchildren they will have someday?
My son is 11. He loves the Duggar’s tv show. He wants to have a large family like they do. They are great role models.
hippie,
That’s wonderful!
Hmm… there’s Jubilee, Jael, Joelle/Joella, Jane, Jeanne, Justice, Judith, Jae, or Jewel for girls…
for boys there’s Job, Jacob, Judah/Jude, Joel, Jonah/Jonas, Jonathan, Japheth, or Jay….
God bless them.
When you know that you are doing what God wants you to do, it is easier to put up with what the world throws at you, and I know that on the front of trusting God with their fertility, the Duggars are following God’s will.
I’m sorry, I don’t think breeding like this is great. Our world does have limited resources and I think it is ridiculous and selfish to keep on having children like this. Why don’t they adopt a child?
If the Duggars were people of color, they would be lambasted for being irresponsible.
Good ones, YCW!
I love Jubilee – so fun!
also.. Joyce, Jeanine, Jerome, Jesse…
No, if the Duggars were on welfare they would be lambasted, regardless of color, so we can leave out the race-baiting.
My husband has a friend from high school on his facebook who is constantly slamming Michelle Duggar. She’s annoying the spit out of him these days. He keeps saying, “If you hate her so much, change the danged channel!”
And with #7 here, he gets a lot of “Are you trying to be the Duggars?” to which he has started responding… “Yeah, I’d LOVE to be debt free!”
Phillymiss,
Our world does have limited resources, but we aren’t remotely close to tapping the limits. The problems we face with the world’s resources lie in poor distribution. Food sits and rots in warehouses because there aren’t enough people willing to volunteer of their TIME and ENERGY.
What bothers me about the Duggars isn’t their family size, but the fact that all those kids are on television. I don’t think anyone can mature in a healthy manner while being recorded constantly. I don’t believe anyone can have a normal childhood while their childhood is on national television.
But as for how many they’ve had, so what? They have a great deal more patience than I. Good for them! And the sort of children they’re raising (though I do believe in ways they will be stunted), are the sort of people who go out and DO Christ’s work in the world. One could easily argue that we need many more families like the Duggars, to counterbalance the “me, mine” trends in our society. Families that teach the value of waiting, of putting Christ first, of loving others… heck, of using respectful language!
To quote my beautiful cousin, who with her husband, is currently expecting her eighth child (including two in heaven):
“People who say you should adopt instead of having more biological children should consider adopting instead of buying a new car, a bigger house, or going out to eat 100 times a year. Otherwise, well, they are just being a little bit hypocritical, aren’t they.”
Congrats, Duggars, from someone who hopes people will think about how much each of your kids has the potential to help, produce, give and love rather than assuming they will only hurt, consume, take and hate.
Posted by: Phillymiss at September 4, 2009 1:07 PM
“I’m sorry, I don’t think breeding like this is great. Our world does have limited resources and I think it is ridiculous and selfish to keep on having children like this.”
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breeding, Breeding, BREEDING?
It’s not like the Duggars are running the human equivalent of a ‘puppy mill’.
They are providing for all their children’s needs without the assistance of the welfare state.
They are educating all their children at home and doing so without the use of other peoples money seized throught confiscatroy taxes.
They are paying taxes on the incomes from their businesses.
They are teaching their children by example to be productive responsible citizens.
We need a lot more people like the Duggars!
And just to blow up your little race baiting stereotype.
I met a brother in the LORD from Tennessee who had 12 chilren. (When he offerred that bit of personal information in a meeting of christians, I was the only one who applauded.
He is self employed and he and his wife are educating all their children at home and he ‘IS’ an African-American (unlike our president.)
The beauty of capitalism and freedom is that the more people there are the more capital there is available to invest in exploiting resources that were not previously economically feasable to develop because more people means more demand.
British Petroleum just announced the discovery of an oil reserve that is 7,000 feet beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. Because of the dynamics of capitalism the technololgy is now available to tap that resource and the demands of the market provided the financial incentive to develop the resource.
The world is not too small to support the population.
It is your’s and others like you who’s thinking and imgagination is too small.
Your glass is not only 1/2 full it is leaking and you seem to believe it cannot be constantly refilled to overflowing.
yor bro ken
ps: Here is a little news flash. The earth’s natural processes that produce crude oil are still at work. They have never stopped. We will probably never run out of crude oil before we develop superior alternatives and that will be if and when the price of oil get high enough to entice people to invest in discovering alternatives.
Posted by: MaryRose at September 4, 2009 3:47 PM
“What bothers me about the Duggars isn’t their family size, but the fact that all those kids are on television. I don’t think anyone can mature in a healthy manner while being recorded constantly. I don’t believe anyone can have a normal childhood while their childhood is on national television.”
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MaryRose,
You raise a valid concern, but the Duggars are good people and if they determine this exposure is detrimental to their childrens well being, they will quickly say, “No mas!”
They were faring just fine without the revenue from the television show. From the limited interaction that I have had with the Duggars I do not believe they will allow anything to come between them and their relationship with God, with one another and with their children.
yor bro ken
Now if Obama Death-Care goes through, the Duggars may face the ire of the Messiah Most Miserable. In the text of HR 3200, check out pages 769-770, and 838-845. Yes, the Messianic Gestapo will be on their case. They can expect (are you ready?) “home visits”. We can imagine what that will entail now, can we? Think Red China.
Ken,
No, I don’t believe they are putting the children on tv for selfish reasons. I believe that they feel their children can handle it, and that they are doing good in the world by spreading a good message.
I just don’t necessarily agree.
I realize that their motivations (at least appear to be) pure. It’s not their motivations that bother me. It’s the effect that their decisions are having on their children.
Honestly, there are many many worse parents in the world. Many. I’m not saying they’re bad parents. I’m saying I can’t watch their show because I don’t agree with the idea of putting your family on display in that manner.
But I don’t actually resent them their decision. Their children seem to be well-adjusted, all things considered.
Phillymiss sounds like another innumerate and confused person.
The Duggars with their 19 kids cannot possibly make up for the 20% of women who have no children. Every year for the past 20+ years there have been fewer children worldwide in 0-4 category. The UN projections have been revised numerous times and every time the projection of peak population is lower and sooner. Birthrates are falling faster than ever even in poor countries.
The Duggars are unusual. That means they are not part of the general trend. The Duggars per capita contribution to society is higher than average and their per capita consumption is lower. They are far more eco friendly than a family with one or two kids in a 2000 square foot house. Economy of scale.
Please tell me Phillymiss does not have a college degree. It is heartbreaking for an educator to see people in college without rudimentary numerical reasoning skills.
Obviously there is a reason the Duggars are blessed with so many children. Amish and Orthodox Jews don’t use birth control and only average just under 7 kids each. If every child on earth had the loving home that the Duggar’s children enjoy, we would have fewer problems.
Even Margaret Sanger said, “more from the fit.”
Call it voluntary eugenics, where the best people have the most children.
What could be more fit than a loving supportive home?
How many children make one a “breeder?”
More than 4, less than 10? Or is the term “breeder”(as opposed to mother)reserved for those with more than 12 and less than 20?
Someone please illuminate.
Carla, I think that to a liberal, you are a “breeder” if you actually ENJOY having children. It doesn’t matter how many you have; if you consider them a “blessing”, you’re a “breeder”.
Thank you Bethany Breeder.
Love,
Carla Breeder
I am 65 years old, I have four grown children and 4 grandchildren. I may never live to see all their contributions to this world.
SO, instead of “some” complaining about what resources a duggar-sized family use, think about what they might contribute to this planet during their lifetimes. They are refreshing to watch and I believe – with their value system – they WILL make this earth of ours a better place.
They’ve started by making TV a better thing to watch.
Congratulations to the Duggars on #1 grandbaby
and #19 child.
Bless each and every one of you.