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Duggar Family Welcomes 18th Child
by Alicia Dennis, People
12/18/08

Give us another J!

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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These are the most selfish entitlement fuckers on the planet. They absolutely disgust me. If children were truly important to them, they would have adopted homeless orphans, but it's not about the children, as we all know.

Poor Anna Keller, I hope she's ready to start pumping them out like a walking uterus does!

It is disgusting. Totally selfish.
I can't figure out how these parents provide for these kids. I mean, even if they grow their own food and sew their own clothes (or use hand-me-downs)..how do they afford health care, medication, toiletries, etc. How do they afford the cost of transportation and just all of the 'small extras that kids need between the ages of 0-18.

I don't get this mentality at all.

anastasia Wrote:These are the most selfish entitlement fuckers on the planet. They absolutely disgust me. If children were truly important to them, they would have adopted homeless orphans, but it's not about the children, as we all know.

Amen Sistah. I could not have said it better.

She will probably get pregnant once again in 2009. Unless her uterus decides to go on strike. Having that much kids cannot be good for your health. My great grand-mother had 23 kids and died young. Modern medecine is better today, but still, it must be hard on a women's body.

HAVING kids hasn't done a thing to her, however RAISING kids takes a toll. Michelle Duggar hasn't raised a single kid so she looks great(wouldn't know about her insides of course). No gray hair, no wrinkles, no stress... she's living a very easy life. Her oldest daughters...not such a great life.