Josie Duggar released from hospital
Read previous posts here, here, and here.
From People magazine, April 6:
After nearly 4 months in neonatal intensive care, Duggar baby No. 19, Josie Brooklyn, is finally leaving the hospital….
She was born on Dec. 10 via emergency C-section at just 25 weeks’ gestation. Weighing just 1 lb. 6 oz., the micropreemie fought for her life, surviving a bowel perforation at only 8 days old.
Today, Josie weighs 4 lbs. 9 oz., is breathing without oxygen, eating every 3 hours and stable enough to go home….
“She has a strong personality,” Michelle says. “She is a spunky little thing and will keep us all going.”…
The littlest Duggars at home – Jackson, 5, Johanna, 4, Jennifer, 2, and Jordyn, 15 months – have never seen Josie in person and “are jumping up and down that they will finally get to meet their baby sister,” says Michelle. Of course, given Josie’s still-delicate state, “the little ones will have to be careful with slobbery kisses to prevent any colds and sniffles,” Michelle adds.
The family will remain in a rental home nearby in Little Rock indefinitely until they are ready to take Josie home to Tontitown, AR. “I will be her main caregiver,” Michelle says, “and we’ll have a lot of helpers around to take turns feeding her and getting her to sleep.”
19 Kids and Counting: Josie Comes Home airs Sunday, May 9, at 8/7 Central on TLC.
May God protect Josie and help her grow strong.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
yeah!
No shortage of cuddling and love for this little one!
What a blessing it has been to watch this little one’s progress. Hopefully, this has witnessed to millions how complete the youngest humans are even tho very tiny. All she needed was nurture and time.
There is nothing more gratifying to us as nurses as seeing these little ones move from one end of the NICU (the most critical) towards the other (the most stable) and then go home. I was a NICU baby myself and am currently looking to go from floating to the NICU to making the NICU my permanent home base for a while… Congrats to the whole Duggar family!
She was only 25 weeks along? Wow!
Josie is a little fighter!!
Wow! I didn’t realize that she was still in the hospital, I’ve been cutting back to TV for the last few months. But, I am so happy to hear that she is doing better. She is a fighter and she has a lot of love waiting for her. Thanks be to God!
I watch 19 Kids and Counting on tuesdays just to see Josie’s progress and this makes me so happy. I will tune in for the Mother’s Day special!
She was delivered at 25 weeks and cared for the next few weeks of life and survived. Her folks and the hospital staff got a preview of what usually happens in the womb..but this time the baby was out of the womb.
So..she was at that stage of development that some babies still get aborted (LTA).
Now, the big annoying question to the pro-aborts is: what’s the difference between baby Josie and the unfortunate ones?
She was a “wanted” baby? That’s it? That’s all it takes to kill the large fetus/ embryo/zygote/clump of cells?
Think about that.
God bless the Duggars, and their youngest addition!
(Would it be unforgivably shallow of me to add that Michelle Duggar is extraordinarily cute? :) So much for the secular “don’t have more than 2 kids unless you want to look 40 years older than your age” nonsense…)
(Would it be unforgivably shallow of me to add that Michelle Duggar is extraordinarily cute? :) So much for the secular “don’t have more than 2 kids unless you want to look 40 years older than your age” nonsense…)
Posted by: Paladin at April 9, 2010 2:08 PM
Not shallow at all. I think she’s adorable. Possibly a freak of nature though. ( Just kidding!!!)
Not shallow at all. I think she’s adorable. Possibly a freak of nature though. ( Just kidding!!!)
Posted by: Janet at April 9, 2010 2:36 PM
Actually, I know quite a few women who have large families (and of course, I have one) and every last one of us is pegged at between 10-15 years younger than our actual age.
One of my favorite comments is when people say, “But you’re not OLD enough to have a 17 year old!” or “You can’t possibly be old enough to have seven kids!”