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Duggars won't rule out Child #20..WUT?

beenie

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19 Kids and Counting mom Michelle Duggar isn't necessarily done bearing children.

During a Tuesday appearance on The Today Show, the TLC reality mom said she and husband Jim Bob "would welcome another" child. "We would do it again in the fact that here we have this precious gift," Michelle, 43, said. "It's a miracle, it really is."

Their 19th daughter Josie was born prematurely, at 25 weeks, last December. She weighed just 1 lb., 6 oz. and suffered a perforated bowel eight days after her birth and spent two extended stints in the hospital.

On Tuesday's episode of the show, the on-the-mend little girl leaves the hospital after a second, two-month stay.

"The joy of just knowing that Josie felt so much better, that she was bigger and doing so good [made me feel] like this was the time and we were going to make this one go," says Michelle, who brought her baby home from the hospital on supplemental oxygen and had her heart rate monitored.

these people have completely lost their marbles. Baby Josie is barely home from the hospital...who will care for her when selfish mommy is puking her brains out in the first trimester...who will care for her if/LIKELY when mommy gets pre-e again and has to be bedridden? who will care for her in the likely event she delivers #20 early and has to be at his/her bedside?

Pre-E percentages go up as you age, the more babies you have, AND if you've had it before.

she needs to stop; Jim Bob needs to get a vasectomy and put an end to this if she won't.
 
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tumbleweed41

Resident Liberal Hippie
See, that is why I moved away from Springdale, AR. It was just getting to crowded with all those Dugger kids running around....
 

Duck

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these people have completely lost their marbles. Baby Josie is barely home from the hospital...who will care for her when selfish mommy is puking her brains out in the first trimester...who will care for her if/LIKELY when mommy gets pre-e again and has to be bedridden? who will care for her in the likely event she delivers #20 early and has to be at his/her bedside?

Pre-E percentages go up as you age, the more babies you have, AND if you've had it before.

she needs to stop; Jim Bob needs to get a vasectomy and put an end to this if she won't.

Well, obviously the 8 year olds would be caring for the 4 year olds, who would be watching the infants. Or something like that. I remember from what I had read a couple of years ago that chores and child care and the like were very well organized and delegated. The older kids were responsible for the younger, everybody had particular chores to do, very structured home life.

Personally, I would question how any particular kid can get any particular attention from the parents without setting fire to something, but, there has to be some system involved right?
 

Smoke

Done here.
I've said before that I like watching their show, but it's really starting to get disturbing, and it's getting harder and harder to ignore my husband's insistence that no man who loved his wife would get her pregnant that many times.

To go on after nineteen children and the harrowing experience they've had with this last one is really incomprehensible. And you just know that if Michelle dies with the next one, the whole lot of them will be mouthing pious phrases about God's will.
 

Mathematician

Reason, and reason again
With almost any TLC show you have to bite the bullet and accept that you're promoting rather ungodly behavior. Or maybe in this case, too godly?
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
That is just reckless and very irresponsible. I got one of those motivational pictures of them back when it was just 13 or 14 kids, and back then it said "Vagina: It's not a clown car." Too bad no one can step in and so no more, at least for the mother's sake. It can't be healthy having that many kids.
 

MysticSang'ha

Big Squishy Hugger
Premium Member
That is just reckless and very irresponsible. I got one of those motivational pictures of them back when it was just 13 or 14 kids, and back then it said "Vagina: It's not a clown car." Too bad no one can step in and so no more, at least for the mother's sake. It can't be healthy having that many kids.

When we lived in North Carolina, our next door neighbor was a woman who was the second oldest out of 18 children. I met her two grown sons who discussed at length how dysfunctional their extended family was. A few in prison, drug and severe alcohol abuse in about a dozen members of the family....but at least they all boasted that they loved "listenin' to Christian music on the radio and watch wrestling (pronounced rasslin) on television."

I was shocked, but she really was a great neighbor. Her sons and her daughter-in-law were all very friendly, despite how perfectly they fit the redneck hillbilly stereotype. We spent plenty of time visiting each other.

But man....18 kids.
 

Ciscokid

Well-Known Member
We have reality tv shows about people who hoard pets. I'm starting to be convinced that people can do the same with kids.
 

Smoke

Done here.
I wonder what awful name they will give to #20?
No telling. With all the J names available, they chose Jinger on only the sixth child.

Some biblical J names they haven't used yet include Japheth, Jared, Jason, Jemima, Jethro, Jezebel, Joanna, Job, Joel, Jonathan, Judah, Judas, Jude and Justus.

We can probably rule out Jezebel and Judas for obvious reasons, and since they already have a Jana, a Joy-Anna, and a Johannah, it would probably be too much even for them to name one Joanna.

All of the boys have traditional names, and all but the last two -- Justin and Jackson -- are biblical names. The girls are less likely to have traditional names and with the exception of Johannah none of them have biblical names. There's also more of a tendency toward "creative" spellings for the girls' names.

I predict Jason or Jonathan for a boy and Jayden or Jasmine (or more likely Jasmyne) for a girl. However, Jaycee ("for our Lord") is always a possibility.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
We have reality tv shows about people who hoard pets. I'm starting to be convinced that people can do the same with kids.
Anything really can be hoarded. Pack rat is another name for someone who hoards various types of possessions. I think there is also a show on TV about that, or at least some show featured someone whose house seemed to be a maze of junk. Some hoarder nearby faced legal problems and fines because he had so much stuff just sitting in his yard. (Although you couldn't tell because he kept a fence up, but the city made him tear it down and clean up his yard and house.)

I predict Jason or Jonathan for a boy and Jayden or Jasmine (or more likely Jasmyne) for a girl. However, Jaycee ("for our Lord") is always a possibility.
Were gonna have to frubal you if one of these names is used.
 

Father Heathen

Veteran Member
vagina.jpg


Seriously, what's up with religious freaks having litters?
 

Alceste

Vagabond
My grandmother had 15 siblings, all but three of them women. Her mother, when I was introduced to her as an infant, held me briefly and then said in disgust "Ugh - too many babies" and handed me back. An understandable reaction, since I must have been her 50th or 60th great-grandchild. Some of her babies she delivered in the barn, by herself, between chores. I think if Baba were alive today and saw women who have access to birth control VOLUNTARILY having that many children, she'd faint.
 

Smoke

Done here.
I think if Baba were alive today and saw women who have access to birth control VOLUNTARILY having that many children, she'd faint.
I'd say a woman who can deliver in the barn between chores probably wouldn't faint easily. :)

But I'll bet she would think they were idiots. Contraception changes the world.

My maternal grandmother had 92 first cousins. My mother had 47. I have 6. My nephews don't have any. :)
 

Alceste

Vagabond
I'd say a woman who can deliver in the barn between chores probably wouldn't faint easily. :)

But I'll bet she would think they were idiots. Contraception changes the world.

My maternal grandmother had 92 first cousins. My mother had 47. I have 6. My nephews don't have any. :)

Likewise, my grandmother had 15 siblings, my mother 3, me 1, and neither my brother or myself have children although we're both well into our 30s. Birth control changes everything indeed! IMO, since the human population will be controlled regardless, better birth control than famine, war and disease.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
I'd say a woman who can deliver in the barn between chores probably wouldn't faint easily. :)
I'd say that is one tough, hard *** woman! Just imagining what it must be like to give birth makes me think a woman who could do it so seemingly casually must be one helluva woman. Certainly much stronger and tougher than just about any man I can think of.
 
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