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Fri, 08-03-2007 - 11:25am

Arkansas Couple Welcomes 17th Child (and they want more!):


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070803/ap_on_fe_st/17_kids


By JILL ZEMAN, Associated Press Writer


LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - It's a girl — again — for the Duggars. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar welcomed their 17th child, and seventh daughter, into the world Thursday.


Jennifer Danielle was born at 10:01 a.m. at Saint Mary's Hospital in Rogers, Ark., the Duggars said in an interview. Jennifer weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces and arrived five days after Michelle's due date.


Less than 30 minutes after giving birth, the Duggars already were talking of having more.


"We'd love to have more," Michelle said, adding that the girls are outnumbered seven to 10 in the family. "We love the ruffles and lace."


Jennifer joins the fast-growing Duggar brood, who live in Tontitown in a 7,000-square-foot home. All the children — whose names start with the letter J — are home-schooled.


The oldest is 19 and the youngest, before Jennifer, is almost 2 years old.


"We are just so grateful to God for another gift from him," said Jim Bob Duggar, 42, a former state representative. "We are just so thankful to him that everything went just very well."


Jennifer joins siblings Joshua, 19; John David, 17; Janna, 17; Jill, 16; Jessa, 14; Jinger, 13; Joseph, 12; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 9; Jedidiah, 8; Jeremiah, 8; Jason 7; James 6; Justin, 4; Jackson, 3; Johannah, almost 2.


The family includes two sets of twins.


Michelle Duggar said that Joshua, Janna, Jill and Jessa were at the hospital, but that the rest of the family planned to visit their new sister later Thursday.


Michelle Duggar said she started feeling contractions Wednesday night and went to the hospital at about 5 a.m. Thursday.


"It actually went fast," she said. "I guess once I started progressing, it went within 30 minutes."


Jennifer was born via a VBAC — or vaginal birth after Caesarean, Jim Bob Duggar said.


The Duggars have been featured on several programs on cable's Discovery Health Network. The next special, the Duggar Family Album, is scheduled to air next month, Jim Bob Duggar said.


Among the "fun facts" listed on Discovery Health's Web page devoted to the Duggars: A baby has been born in every month except June; the Duggars have gone through an estimated 90,000 diapers, and Michelle, 40, has been pregnant for 126 months — or 10.5 years — of her life.


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Registered: 07-15-2007
Fri, 08-03-2007 - 12:06pm
hey cl-ting,
thats one too many babies for me. lol
 
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Fri, 08-03-2007 - 12:15pm

All I can say is she is more of a woman than I am! Holy fertile!

Shannon

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Fri, 08-03-2007 - 1:25pm
well they got a thing for the letter J. Wonders if an episode on sesame street on the letter J has some special meaning for them…maybe they were watching it on their fist date or something.
Can you imagine her uterus when she’s in her 60s or right now? At lease she can say I didn’t drop any balls. I can carry it and enter a marathon with it. I wonder if her body in the Guinness world records. Being pregnant for 10 yrs of your life should put her in there! imagine her kids see her pregnant most of their lives. I wonder what the teenagers thinks and what kind of reactions they’re getting at school.
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Fri, 08-03-2007 - 2:43pm

I thought I saw this on this morning's news on channel 10. Wow, she started early! lol!

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Registered: 11-16-2005
Fri, 08-03-2007 - 3:17pm

All I can say is I'd have to be admitted to an institution if I had that many kids!


Eastie, I agree about her uterus! I can't imagine how stretched and worn out it must be. Are we really made to birth that many babies??? I'm not!


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Sat, 08-04-2007 - 12:32am

One of my students brought in an article about this family with all their kids lined up in a row and the mom being pregnant. As you can see, all the kids names begin with the letter J. All the boys wear black socks, all the girls wear white. They all play the viola, I think it is. They go through gallons of milk and boxes of Cheerios each week. The article had details on their cars, etc., but I am not at home to get it.

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Blue

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Sat, 08-04-2007 - 1:27am
Wow! Bless their hearts... That is a lot of kiddos but years ago a lot of women had many kiddos as this.. My Step Mom is from a family of 18 children...
I could not go that route,but if they are doing well..(Can afford them) and are loving nurturing

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Sat, 08-04-2007 - 12:23pm
OMG! No, I cannot imagine! Wow! They must have a fun family and alot of fun at holidays, birthdays etc.
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Sat, 08-04-2007 - 9:14pm

Good Lord...that is almost 13 years being pregnant (oops Twins--10 years)! I cannot not imagine!

Well it is a good thing most of us dont do that...population explosion..Talk about speeding up global warming...lol. Here i am recycling my plastic, papers and cans.lol!

Yeah i agree i dont think we are made to have that many babies. It think I read some articles that women in primitive cultures..(think amazon tribes before they had contact with modern world) would have about an average of four babies spread 4 years apart. Then they got exposed to modern cultures and it changes.




Edited 8/4/2007 9:17 pm ET by roxy_blue
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Sat, 08-04-2007 - 10:12pm

I think that the most babies born to one woman is 69. I believe she was a Soviet woman and had some multiple births. I also think she was a "Hero of the People" when they did those kinds of things. I looked it up online and got the same info, but originally I got my info from the Guiness World Book of Records.

Unbelievable!!!!!

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Blue

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