posted on May 26, 2004 03:42:30 PM new
These people need to find a new hobby.
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May 26, 2004, 10:35AM
15 kids ... and counting?
Associated Press
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Michelle Duggar is all smiles after delivering her 15th child, but she may be ready for more, her family says.
Mother and child were doing well, although Michelle, 37, was feeling some discomfort because the birth was her second by Caesarean section, said her mother-in-law, Mary Duggar.
"She's a trouper. She's just all smiles," Mary Duggar said.
Jackson Levi Duggar was born at 10:52 a.m. Sunday, weighing 7 pounds 8 ounces and measuring 20 inches.
"She was wanting to do it naturally," Mary Duggar said. But the delivery was by C-section because one of Jackson's shoulders was presenting first.
The baby's father, former state legislator Jim Bob Duggar, sounded a bit tired but happy after returning home Monday. He said his wife and new son were doing fine. He said he leaves the decision up to Michelle on whether to have more children.
Michelle, who home schools her children and is helping to build the family's new home in Tontitown from the ground up, started having her babies when she was 21, four years after she and Jim Bob married. Her 38-year-old husband is a real estate businessman.
Their children include two sets of twins, and the parents have stuck to the letter "J" for their names. There is Joshua, 16; Jana and John-David, 14; Jill, 13; Jessa, 11; Jinger, 10; Joseph, 9; Josiah, 7; Joy-Anna, 6; Jeremiah and Jedidiah, 5; Jason, 4; James, 2; and Justin, 1.
"The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry. You can understand why — with two positions on every issue, he has twice as many people mad at him." —Jay Leno
[ edited by Bear1949 on May 26, 2004 03:44 PM ]
posted on May 26, 2004 06:32:46 PM new Wonder what kind of name 'Jinger' is?
In allprobability it is the twisting and torturing of the name "Ginger." Parents do crap like this all the time.
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posted on May 26, 2004 07:52:43 PM new
LOL @ These people need to find a new hobby [spoil sport ]
I can't begin to imagine what it would be like to live with and raise 15 children. And it's a mystery to me how they can find the privacy and time to enjoy their "hobby".
But just think of all those child tax credits come tax time.
posted on May 26, 2004 08:20:52 PM new
Thought I'd check and see if maybe they were trying to set a 'world record' on the number of children....but they're not even close.
According to Guinness World Records 2001, the highest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev (1707-1782) of Shuya, Russia. Between 1725 and 1765, in a total of 27 confinements, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. 67 of them survived infancy.
The modern world record for giving birth is held by Leontina Albina from San Antonio, Chile. Now in her mid-sixties, Leontina claims to be the mother of 64 children, of which only 55 of them are documented, birth certificates apparently being something of a less-than-serious concern for destitute Chileans. She is listed in the 1999 Guinness book but mysteriously dropped from later editions.
posted on May 26, 2004 09:05:04 PM new
Linda, do you think they could be related to Clinton?
"The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry. You can understand why — with two positions on every issue, he has twice as many people mad at him." —Jay Leno
posted on May 26, 2004 10:31:59 PM new
I don't know, bear. Anything's possible these days.
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Here's another article....says the same thing as yours did, but has a picture of the family. She was being honored by our Governor for winning the 'Mother of The Year' award.
posted on May 28, 2004 01:48:49 AM new
I wonder if they made their outfits in HomeSchool Home Ec.
Now I know I have a chance at "Mother of the Year"! All I have to do is get a "Uterine Transplant" and have oodles of children! (Or not, and I go with oodles of trying!...lol)
, Jasmine (my daughter's name), the list is endless....