LITTLE ROCK - An Arkansas couple had a baby daughter
Thursday their 17th child and seventh girl and the pair say
they're still not ready to give it a rest.
Jennifer Danielle was born at 10:01 a.m. at a hospital in Rogers,
Arkansas, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar said in an interview.
"We'd love to have more," Michelle said, referring to baby girls.
"We love the ruffles and lace."
Jennifer joins the fast-growing Duggar brood, who live in a
7,000-square-foot (650-square-meter) home in Tontitown. All the
children whose names start with the letter J are taught at
home.
The oldest is 19 and the youngest, before Jennifer, is almost 2
years old.
"We are just so grateful to God for another gift from him," said
Jim Bob Duggar, a former state representative. "We are just so
thankful to him that everything went just very well."
Jennifer joins siblings: Joshua, 19; John David, 17; Janna, 17;
Jill, 16; Jessa, 14; Jinger, 13; Joseph, 12; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna,
9; Jedidiah, 8; Jeremiah, 8; Jason 7; James 6; Justin, 4; Jackson,
3; Johannah, almost 2.
Michelle Duggar said she started feeling contractions Wednesday
night and went to the hospital at about 5 a.m. Thursday.
"It actually went fast," she said. "I guess once I started
progressing, it went within 30 minutes."
The Duggars have been featured on several programs on cable
television's Discovery Health Network. The next special, the Duggar
Family Album, is scheduled to air next month, Jim Bob Duggar
said.
Among the "fun facts" listed on Discovery Health's Web page devoted
to the Duggars: A baby has been born in every month except June;
the Duggars have gone through an estimated 90,000 diapers, and
Michelle has been pregnant for 126 months or 10.5 years of her
life.
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