Good looking family! And one helluva mom!
Posted on 10/12/2005 11:06:43 AM PDT by paulat
Arkansas Mother Gives Birth to 16th Child By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Michelle Duggar just delivered her 16th child, and she's already thinking about doing it again.
Johannah Faith Duggar was born at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and weighed 7 pounds, 6.5 ounces.
The baby's father, Jim Bob Duggar, a former state representative, said Wednesday that mother and child were doing well.
He said Johannah's birth was especially exciting because it was the first time in eight years the family has had a girl.
Jim Bob Duggar, 40, said he and Michelle, 39, want more children.
"We both just love children and we consider each a blessing from the Lord. I have asked Michelle if she wants more and she said yes, if the Lord wants to give us some she will accept them," he said.
The Discovery Health Channel filmed Johannah's birth and plans to air a show about the family of 18 next May.
The Learning Channel is doing another show about the family's construction project, a 7,000-square foot house that should be finished before Christmas. The home, which the family has been building for two years, will have nine bathrooms, dormitory-style bedrooms for the girls and boys, a commercial kitchen, four washing machines and four dryers.
Jim Bob Duggar, who sells real estate, previously lost his bid for the U.S. Senate. He said he expects to run for the state Senate next year but isn't ready to make a formal announcement.
Michelle Duggar had her first child at age 21, four years after the couple married.
Their children include two sets of twins, and each child has a name beginning with the letter "J": Joshua, 17; John David, 15; Janna, 15; Jill, 14; Jessa, 12; Jinger, 11; Joseph, 10; Josiah, 9; Joy-Anna, 8; Jeremiah, 6; Jedidiah, 6; Jason, 5; James, 4; Justin, 2; and Jackson Levi, 1.
LOL!
As someone with a low pain threshold, the attention span of a gnat and the patience of a freight train....
I'm amazed and impressed...
More power to them.
As Groucho Marx said, famously, "I like my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth every once in a while."
Eleven or twelve will be conservative Republicans. The rest will be liberal Dems. In a family that large, you're bound to have a couple rebels. Even if they're basically "good" rebels (employed, productive, but liberal)
I have 9 kids, but only 3 have "J" names.
Maybe the next one can be Jenjis (as in Khan) in honor of John Kerry.
SD
The Discovery Channel did a show about them. I was amazed at how organized they are. They were (I guess still are) living in a 3 bedroom ranch house! The children are home-schooled; no TV; make their own clothes; shop in bulk; have a basement pantry stocked with food (organized to the hilt!); have lists of chores for each child on the wall. They pay cash for everything, buy used or do without and won't go into debt. I had to admire their tenacity, but I know I couldn't do it! The mother was pregnant with number 15 on the show. She had to have a C-section because the baby was breech. They said that happens when a woman has had so many babies. I can't imagine what her poor insides must be like!
PS: What do his parents call him when they're mad at him? That's what full, long, formal names are for! (As in "Did Betty Sue leave the gate open and let the cows out? ELIZABETH SUSANNA, WAIT UNTIL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME!!!!"
Good looking family! And one helluva mom!
Ouch! This makes me hurt!!! Are they rich????
Hmmmmmm... rhymes with "Ginger"...
Thanks for pointing that out!
When I was reading it, I assumed that it rhymed with "ringer" or "dinger"
That's not funny, and a bit offensive. Your comment hits a bit too close to home and my parents.
I'm from a big family (9 children) and would not trade that for anything in the world. We learned to do with less, love and respect each other and roll with it from an early age.
I say if you can support a large family finanically and the mind, body and spirt are willing then have at it.....
This is cool IMO.....My Grandmother had 12 kids.
ROFLOL
I guess, if Jedidiah is considered "normal." At least it's spelled right.
SD
They'll be great. I say more power to them. They are obviously able to afford them and take care of them. And they love them. That pretty much covers it, in my book.
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