I was looking on Yahoo this morning and came across this story...
Arkansas couple welcomes 17th child
By JILL ZEMAN, Associated Press Writer 19 minutes ago
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.
What the hell is wrong with these people? I understand that people love babies and all, but that just seems a bit excessive. And to top it all off, they say they want MORE!!!
Check out the picture of these freaks...
When I look at this my chest tightens a little. What the hell would possess someone to want 17 + children. Maybe it's because I have made the decision to not have children, maybe these two parents are just plain, ole wackadoos, I don't know...what I do know is if this family were ever at a restaurant, the hostess would sit me right next to them.
Until next time...
Single Girl
Friday, August 3, 2007
Oh Dear God...
Posted by Amanda at 9:16 AM
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OMG! I was going to post about that today, too!!! WTF?!?! Ok, I know I'm still in my "undecided" mode about children (although leaning more to the idea as I've gotten older) BUT 17 of them?!?!?! There is such as thing as contraceptives, people! Maybe they can afford to have that many kids, but that seriously can't be good for her body. I knew a girl who had her three children back-to-back. The wear on her body caused her to have cervical issues that lead to her getting cancer which then led to her getting a hysterectomy at the age of 32. This woman must have a coochie of steel or something!
I saw the story on Yahoo News as well -- I actually watched a documentary on the Discovery Channel about this family 3 or so years ago -- at that time, they were pregnant with child #15. I thought they were crazy then -- I REALLY think they're nuts now. The good news is that they are financially responsible for all the kids themselves, so they're not asking for handouts. If they were, I would be totally pissed instead of just completely freaked out at the thought of having a HERD of kids.
I agree with Rice Spice -- my sister's 3 kids are very close in age -- 6, 4 and 2.5, and I know all those pregnancies wreaked havoc on her body. In addition, the youngest was a lot smaller at birth than the other 2 and developed a little more slowly -- Alisha's body had been almost completely depleted of resources by that last pregnancy. It makes me wonder how healthy these Duggar kids really are -- and the mom, too. Eeek.
As long as they are financially responsible for their family I don't see a problem with it if that is what they choose.You have chosen not to have children, which is probably for the best considering how you feel about them,but that doesn't make you a freak for not wanting them, why does it make them freaks because they do want children and lots of them?
To anonymous:
I don't believe I have EVER said that I don't like children or that I don't like being around children. And yes people have questioned me on the fact that I don't want to go through the whole parenting experience, I even had one gentleman ask me if I didn't want kids, what was I going to do with my life.
In my personal opinion, which this is my blog, 17 children is excessive and a little freaky weird and I will not apologize for my opinions.
That anonymous person is an idiot.
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