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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081219/ap_on_re_us/18th_baby_5

Arkansas family welcomes 18th child, a girl

Thu Dec 18, 2008

ROGERS, Ark. – An Arkansas woman has given birth to her 18th child. Michelle Duggar delivered the baby girl by Caesarean section Thursday at Mercy Medical Center in Rogers. The baby, named Jordyn-Grace Makiya Duggar, weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces and was 20 inches long.

“The ultimate Christmas gift from God,” said Jim Bob Duggar, the father of the 18 children. “She’s just absolutely beautiful, like her mom and her sisters.”

The Duggars now have 10 sons and eight daughters.

Jim Bob Duggar said Michelle started having contractions Wednesday night. She needed the C-section, her third, because the baby was lying sideways. Jim Bob said both baby and mother were doing well Thursday night.

“We both would love to have more,” he said.

The cable network TLC broadcasts a weekly show about the Duggars, called “17 Kids and Counting.” Chris Finnegan of TLC — which handles public relations for the Duggar family — said the show’s name would be updated to account for the latest addition to the family. He said TLC also will air a show Monday on the baby’s delivery.

Jim Bob Duggar is 43, a year older than his wife. Their oldest child, Joshua, is 20.

The other Duggar children, in between Joshua and Jordyn-Grace, are Jana, 18; John-David, 18; Jill, 17; Jessa, 16; Jinger, 14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 12; Joy-Anna, 11; Jeremiah, 9; Jedidiah, 9; Jason, 8; James, 7; Justin, 6; Jackson, 4; Johannah, 3; and Jennifer, 1.

“Our whole family is excited about Jordyn’s addition to our family,” Jim Bob Duggar said. “She’s just perfect in every way.”

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Well of course the new child is going to have a name that starts with the letter J - what else? I had to laugh at the part where Jim Bob said that Jordyn-Grace is the “the ultimate Christmas gift from God.” No, more likely it was really good timing on the part of the Duggars - I’d say about eight months ago in May, to be exact. At any rate, mother Michelle is now over having the eighteenth fetus removed from while she gets the bedrest, provided that Jim Bob leaves her be during that time. The older children will be feeding, changing diapers, and looking after Jordyn-Grace. That’s one way to keep the teenaged Duggars busy and out of trouble, anyways. Michelle won’t have to be doing any of that dirty work anytime soon. It still creeps me out how Jim Bob says they’d love to have more kids. What happens when they run out of space in their home? More importantly, what happens if Michelle’s uterus completely gives out, which I am surprised it hasn’t already? It must be nice to use religion as an excuse to run through the sheets. Just like someone else I know of in real life but I won’t mention any names in order to protect the extremely guilty.