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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Now, go away.
Congratulations!
We reached a critical mass of children *before* the weird pets arrived :-). After the weird boys, everything else is a piece of cake. As long as they’re not venomous.
I rarely have anything but positive comments about my family, often from people in their 60’s and up who came from large families themselves. Observations like “You have your hands full!” or “It must be loud at your house!” are just true!
Well, thank you again. And excellent verbiage, btw :-).
We made a decision years back not to participate in organized team sports at this point in our lives. We saw too many families who were literally never all at home (or anywhere else) at the same time, and we didn’t want to do that.
Our children are all in Scouts, if they’re old enough; some take gymnastics, and we’ve done dance classes and horseback riding; DP and the older boys run, and so do I when I’m not expecting; everyone old enough goes to RE at church, boys are altar services, several of us in Spanish music ministry ... It can be a real muddle even without team sports!
LOL!!!!!
Based upon our chats, and some of the correspondence I have read between your daughter and mine, I have no doubt you only hear compliments about your family.
I have noticed the same thing. These kids seem more together than a lot of children I have known from more typical size families (and whose parents have fancy degrees and jobs).
It surprises me sometimes. I think, “What kids are you talking about? Mine?” I guess they work out all their attitude problems at home and then are set to shine for the public. If it works, okay.
Training, practice and correction are done at home.
You’re right - it always shows in public, but you shouldn’t train/correct in public.
My 7/yo granddaughter says she is going to get married and have lots of babies. She’s been looking for the perfect husband for about 2 years now and can’t understand why the boys run away. She says her husband will have to be someone funny that makes her laugh.
You've got to wonder, though ... after that many kids, is it like having sex with a 3-car garage?
I didn’t realize the oldest one got married. Yes, it will be interesting to see how many children (if any) that he has.
It works, m’dear, no question about it. I only have the one, but it happens all the time to me and I have to scratch my head as I say to myself “you’re talking about my kid?”
It is all a matter of upbringing. When mom believes her child is a perfect angel and can do no wrong, it’s nearly impossible to convince said mom that her little angel is actually a lying, conniving bully. The problem is compounded when it is obvious the child is learning it at home because mom is also a lying conniving bully.........but always a victim.
And there oldest, Joshua, is engaged -— wonder if that little gal knows what comes next for her life?
The parents have basically turned the older daughters into full-time nannies or teenage mothers. By having such an endless wave of children, they've robbed the older kids (the older daughters especially) of the ability to just be kids.
I'm not opposed to large families, but the parents here clearly can't take care of the kids on their own and have dragooned the older kids into doing their job for them.
Not too long ago it was the norm for girls and boys to learn how to be good parents while growing up. Concerns were not about are you getting enough kid time but what you needed to know and what responsibilities you had to help keep the family going.
I'm sure that the younger kids get some play time. But, the older kids clearly have what is essentially a full-time job taking care of the younger kids. They don't seem to have too much time to devote to normal kid activities, such as sports, part-time jobs, spending time with friends and the like.
Not too long ago it was the norm for girls and boys to learn how to be good parents while growing up.
Nothing wrong with that. But, it shouldn't be a full-time job that robs teenagers of a normal life.
I’m just saying that too much social time can be just as bad or worse. Their lifestyle isn’t for everyone but hey...compared to some of the unsupervised..self centered brats I see today, they don’t seem to be doing too bad as parents.
Lit.
It's hard not to feel some envy on the Duggar threads, but I'm not as old as Sarah wife of Abraham yet. The "J" thing is way creepier than the number of kids, but I know someone myself who's done that with her five.
i know a family with ten children (well, i know more than one family with ten children--and they all homeschool)... but the parents of this particular family start to take away chores from the children as each child gets into the high school years... so once they are high school-aged, they no longer do the cooking, the laundry, etc... they are given more time to figure out what they want to do with their upcoming adulthood...
my own two boys, ages 8 and 12, do their own laundry... and they actually negotiate over who gets to do the vacuuming... they love to vacuum... so do i, so the kitchen, dining room, my bedroom and living room are pretty much my territory... they divide the rest of the house... they also clean two of the three bathrooms--usually... sometimes i do one of them... these chores add up to maybe 2 to 2.5 hours a week...
the 12-year old loves to mow the lawns with our riding lawn mower... he can't wait to get his driver's license... our younger one is just now learning to use the push mower... he is very excited about being able to mow the smaller lawn... he knows it won't be long before he gets to use the riding mower...
currently, because we are experiencing cold weather, they are excited about building fires in the fire place... my husband likes to build the fires, too... so they take turns or build them together...
because we homeschool, they get plenty of play time... even with all the time that is put into their academics... they work hard... and they play even harder...
You were blessed being part of a big family...I was raised as an only child, so when I had five I was drawn (still am obviously) to ‘big family’ stuff. That is why I was like a disorganized moth drawn to their uber perfect flame. I guess I wouldn’t be critical if I hadn’t ‘watched.’. Its like when shot video at a family reunion, or holiday...you think everyone is having a great time but once you play back the video, well you get an ‘eyeful.’
I just had to laugh redd when you said you thought the baby would be the rebel...me, I see the anarchist to be as that laundry maven Ginger with a ‘J’. The clorox fumes are gonna make that child snap...mark my words...
;) PaMom
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