Pregnant With Number 18

Posted

May 27, 2008

Written By

Ronnie Collins

 

 This is a story that some of you are no doubt familiar with but it is worth looking at. I am including a link to their family web site. They are a Christian Family and God has certainly blessed them with a great family. Wow

I actually have a great aunt who had 20 children, she died in recent years and all 20 of the children are still alive and doing well.

The Duggar Family Web Site http://www.duggarfamily.com/

Here are the Duggar House Guidelines:

  1. Always use soft words, even when you don’t feel well.
  2. Always display kind actions, even if you have been mistreated.
  3. Show joyful attitudes even when no one is looking.
  4. Have sincere motives with no thought of self-gain.
  5. Think pure thoughts.
  6. Always give a good report of others. Never talebear unless physical harm will come to someone. Use Matthew 18.
  7. Never raise a hand to hit.
  8. Never raise a foot to kick.
  9. Never raise an object to throw.
  10. Never raise a voice to yell.
  11. Never raise an eye to scowl.
  12. Use one toy/activity at a time.
  13. Never let the sun go down on your wrath. (Don’t go to bed angry or guilty)
  14. Amendment J.O.Y. – Make serving your family a priority.
           Put Jesus first, Others second, Yourself last.

 

Michelle Duggar, 41, is seen here with her family. She is expecting her 18th child in January.

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Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year’s Day, and the latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two sets of twins.
“We’ve had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us,” she said, laughing.
The Duggars’ oldest child, Josh, is 20, and the youngest, Jennifer, is nine months old.
The fast-growing family lives in Tontitown in northwest Arkansas in a 7,000-square-foot home. All the children — whose names start with the letter J — are home-schooled.

Duggar has been been pregnant for more than 11 years of her life, and the family is in the process of filming another series for Discovery Health.

The new show looks at life inside the Duggar home, where chores — or “jurisdictions” — are assigned to each child. One episode of the new show involves a “jurisdiction swap,” where the boys do chores traditionally assigned to the girls, and vice versa, Duggar said.

“The girls swapped jurisdictions, changing tires, working in the garages, mowing the grass,” she said. “The boys got to cook supper from start to finish, clean the bathrooms,” among other chores.

Dr. Manny Alvarez, the managing health editor for FOXNews.com, said he has seen other families who have a large number of children; however, the more children a woman has, the higher her chance for birthing complications.

“There can be bleeding complications at the time of the birth, due to overstretching of the uterus,” Alvarez said. “But, under the proper management, it can be done.”

Duggar said she’s six weeks along and the pregnancy is going well. She and her husband, Jim Bob Duggar, said they’ll keep having children as long as God wills it.

“The success in a family is first off, a love for God, and secondly, treating each other like you want to be treated,” Jim Bob Duggar said. “Our goal is for each one of our children to be best friends, and everybody working together to serve each other makes that happen.”

The other Duggar children, in between Joshua and Jennifer, are Jana, 18; John-David, 18; Jill, 16; Jessa, 15; Jinger, 14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 10; Jeremiah, 9; Jedidiah, 9; Jason, 7; James, 6; Justin, 5; Jackson, 3; and Johannah, 2.

 

 

 

 

 

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