View Full Version : Couple welcomes their 17th child


Aurora
08-04-2007, 11:12 PM
The Duggars had another one. That mom must be saint...I don't know how she does it

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/personal/08/03/17.kids.ap/index.html

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- It's a girl -- again -- for Jim Bob and Michelle Duggars, the proud parents of 17 children.
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And after Jennifer Danielle was born Thursday morning, her parents already were talking about having more children.

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

The family's home in the northwest Arkansas town of Tontitown includes dormitory-style bedrooms for the boys and girls, nine bathrooms, a commercial kitchen, four washing machines and four dryers.

The children are home-schooled by Michelle Duggar, 40. The oldest is 19 and the youngest, before Jennifer, is almost 2 years old. The family includes two sets of twins.

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

All of Jennifer's siblings also have names that start with J. They are: 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 Duggars have been featured on several programs on cable's Discovery Health Network.

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 family has gone through about 90,000 diapers, and Michelle Duggar has been pregnant for 126 months -- or 10.5 years -- of her life. E-mail to a friend E-mail to a friend

CoffeeGirl
08-04-2007, 11:13 PM
I'm happy with my 2:giggle:yes

harrisonsdream
08-05-2007, 12:59 PM
this has been posted three times now lol. once by me saying they were expecting, jennygirl posted that she had given birth :lol

Wicked
08-05-2007, 06:46 PM
17 kids must need more than one thread to fit the whole story in... LMAO.

miss.p
08-05-2007, 06:49 PM
17 kids must need more than one thread to fit the whole story in... LMAO.

:lmao hahha

SIMMYBABEZ
08-05-2007, 07:04 PM
Wow that's really.. cool! Lol more power to em.

SezzySue
08-05-2007, 07:07 PM
they are an interesting family. I like watching the shows with them. They provide for themselves, built their own house. Its pretty neat I think. I am willing to have as many children as I can afford. More power to her