Arkansas couple welcome their 17th child
Sat August 4, 2007
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- It's a girl -- again -- for Jim Bob and
Michelle Duggar, the proud parents of 17 children.
And after Jennifer Danielle was born Thursday morning, her parents
already were talking about having more children.
"We'd love to have more," Michelle Duggar said, adding that the girls
are outnumbered seven to 10 in the family. "We love the ruffles and
lace."
The family's home in the northwest Arkansas town of Tontitown includes
dormitory-style bedrooms for the boys and girls, nine bathrooms, a
commercial kitchen, four washing machines and four dryers.
The children are home-schooled by Michelle Duggar, 40. The oldest is
19 and the youngest, before Jennifer, is almost 2 years old. The
family includes two sets of twins.
"We are just so grateful to God for another gift from him," said Jim
Bob Duggar, 42, a former state representative who sells real estate.
"We are just so thankful to him that everything went just very well."
All of Jennifer's siblings also have names that start with J. They
are: 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.
The Duggars have been featured on several programs on cable's
Discovery Health Network.
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
family has gone through about 90,000 diapers, and Michelle Duggar has
been pregnant for 126 months -- or 10.5 years -- of her life.
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