Duggar family welcomes 18th child

[Raph's Girl]

http://www.people.com/people/article...247340,00.html

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of Tontitown, Ark., had their eighteenth child Thursday – Jordyn-Grace Makiya, who joins the rest of her J-named siblings.

Jordyn-Grace was born via C-section at Mercy Medical Center in Rogers, weeks before her due date of Jan. 1. She weighed in at 7 lbs, 3 oz and was 20 inches long.

"Mother and baby are resting and doing well," says a rep for the Duggar family, whose crowded house is featured on the TLC network show 17 Kids & Counting.

The newest Duggar has a lot of names to keep straight.

The other kids – who range in age from 20 years to 17 months – are Joshua (who married Anna Keller in September and says he is looking forward to the "blessing of children" of his own), twins John-David and Jana, Jill, Jessa, Jinger, Joseph, Josiah, Joy-Anna, twins Jeremiah and Jedidiah, Jason, James, Justin, Jackson, Johannah and Jennifer.

Their parents married when Michelle was 17 and Jim Bob was 19. (Her mother had to officially sign permission.) After birth-control pills were blamed for a miscarriage, the couple decided to throw them out. They've had a new baby approximately every 18 months since.

"What really works for me is swaddling a baby and snuggling up," Michelle told PEOPLE in an interview last year. "I love that time of just bonding and nursing a little baby. And, with a new baby, I realize that I don't need as much sleep as I used to think I did. You learn. This time goes by so quickly. I look at my older children and wonder where the time went."

A special on Jordyn-Grace's birth will air Dec. 22 at 10 p.m. on TLC.

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http://www.people.com/people/article...248075,00.html

After welcoming a 7-lb., 3 oz. daughter via C-section on Thursday to join their 17 other children, the proud papa tells the Associated Press: "We both would love to have more."

The Duggars now have 10 sons and eight daughters, ranging in age from 17 months to 20 years, all with first names starting with the letter J, including the newborn addition, Jordyn-Grace Makiya Duggar.

"The ultimate Christmas gift from God," said Jim tells AP. "She's just absolutely beautiful, like her mom and her sisters."

The family's crowded house in Tontitown, Ark., is featured on the TLC network show 17 Kids & Counting, which will have its name updated to reflect the birth of No. 18.

These people have to be the main reason for the population boom. Gonna be interesting if Joshua keeps up the J theme....

[That Matt Guy]

lol Jedidiah.

Wow... I didn't know procreation could be a hobby.

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by That Matt Guy

lol Jedidiah.

U think a name from the bible is funny??? It's from the old testament. Another name for King Solomon.

[Peanut]

I just think the Bible is funny in general.

[That Matt Guy]

Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

U think a name from the bible is funny??? It's from the old testament. Another name for King Solomon.

Yes, I know that. You don't need to sh*t any more of your useless facts at me.

[Brodie]

Originally Posted by That Matt Guy

Yes, I know that. You don't need to sh*t any more of your useless facts at me.

Thank you.

[Mecha Cow]

Wait, wasn't this exact same news posted like a couple of months ago?

[Barkworm]

That's what I thought but it was probably their 17th child. These guys should try and get another hobby.

[ToTheNines]

Why would you do this? They can't function like a normal family. Imagine them going to the movies or out to dinner.

Dosen't matter tho, with that many kids one of them has to be homocidal... so expect less than 18 here in a little while.

[FLAduranie]

That family makes me SICK!

[Katie]

HEY! my parents were 17 and 19 too.........They didn't want kids........oops.

Damn.....she's spent most of her adult life pregnant.

[RAM BAM]

Originally Posted by Katie

HEY! my parents were 17 and 19 too.........They didn't want kids........oops.

Damn.....she's spent most of her adult life pregnant.

That's the irony of life right there!

[Evenstar227]

Once you have a certain number of kids, you aren't gonna notice a few more. Don't know if that theory works for THIS many, but maybe. I'll ask my one friend if she works her way up that high. She's had 4 kids in 4 years; one every August except this past August. I guess she gave her husband something else for his birthday in November!

[Sewer Bull]

Originally Posted by Evenstar227

Once you have a certain number of kids, you aren't gonna notice a few more. Don't know if that theory works for THIS many, but maybe. I'll ask my one friend if she works her way up that high. She's had 4 kids in 4 years; one every August except this past August. I guess she gave her husband something else for his birthday in November!

So her husband gets laid only once a year, for his birthday?

Wow, what a woman.

[Evenstar227]

Originally Posted by Mino

So her husband gets laid only once a year, for his birthday?

Wow, what a woman.

I couldn't tell you that. My friends' sex lives is not something I would like minute details of. However, I think you're jumping to conclusions. She happened to get pregnant at the same time every year. That doesn't mean they only got jiggy on an annual basis.

[Sewer Bull]

Perhaps, yet I enjoyed the thought they did.

[Evenstar227]

Um..ok?

*signals waiter*

Check please!

[Sewer Bull]

Wait, you're already going?

I thought we've just started...

[Buslady]

why do they say a baby is a gift from god when, no, it's the result of one night of nookie?
these people are rediculous, how do they support all those kids? I mean, if he's gotta extremely well paying job and they're comfortable and all that...great but dayum! that's nuts.

one is enough for me.