Posted on 12/18/2008 5:34:08 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
ROGERS, Ark. – An Arkansas woman has given birth to her 18th child.
Michelle Duggar 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 transverse. Jim Bob said both baby and mother were doing well Thursday night.
"We both would love to have more," he said.
~SNIP~
Jim Bob Duggar is 43, a year older than his wife. Their oldest child, Joshua, is 20.
The other Duggar children, in between Joshua and Jordyn-Grace, are Jana, 18; John-David, 18; Jill, 17; Jessa, 16; Jinger, 14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 12; Joy-Anna, 11; Jeremiah, 9; Jedidiah, 9; Jason, 8; James, 7; Justin, 6; Jackson, 4; Johannah, 3; and Jennifer, 1.
"Our whole family is excited about Jordyn's addition to our family," Jim Bob Duggar said. "She's just perfect in every way."
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Go for 20 Jim-Bob !
Jim Bob you stud!!
Congrats to the family, and the lucky baby, borne to a family that wants and loves it.
/johnny
Good for them.
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In before the clown car comments.
My Grandmother had 17 but 2 sets of twins died at a very young age....less than a year old I am told. 13 raised during the depression with only 4 left living including my Mom.
If I had the means and the money, I’d be giving her a run for the money!! :-)
Congrats to this family who loves children! I saw some specials on cable and they seem very down to earth normal kind of people.
18 babies.
One husband. One father. No gubmint welfare. And religous.
No wonder the left hates them with a passion.
Sometimes I wonder if the Duggars will inherit the earth.
Somebody has a thing for the letter “J.”
DUers calling for a “child tax” and government population control for “fundies.” Such champions of liberty those liberals.
Call me cynical but I can't help but wonder if this isn't more about the celebrity that comes with having 18 children than anything else.
I remember Dennis Miller’s quip, “Lady, it’s a vagina, not a clown car!”
Good for them. Citizens should move in this direction if the socialists are going to try to swamp us with third worlders. We’ve got to fight back somehow. If we don’t, our nation is done.
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