Arkansas Mom Prepares for Birth of 17th Child

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Congratulations to her, and I think it is great that she found a doctor willing to do VBAC. I hear that is becoming increasingly less common. I do think she looked wonderfully happy in the photo I saw.
 
duskyjewel said:
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The comments after the story on the site where I saw the story were really nasty, mostly about population control, or deriding the Duggars and calling her a baby-factory. Also calling the Duggars selfish…uh, what?
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I just got a little snappy on another board I visit often. It was the same type of thing. I don’t think anyone had anything nice to say about them. I usually keep my mouth (fingers) shut there about stuff like this but this time my fingers got the best of me.

I’m debating whether I should go back today and check the replies. 😉
 
Congratulations to the Duggar family on the birth of their 17th child. Jennifer Danielle was born on the morning of Thursday August 2.

I must say, I was going to be really surprised if she was born today since we share a name and it’s my birthday.

Happy Birthday, little one. There’s lots of love in your family. Many blessings.
 
I once had a co-worker who actually was the 17th of 17 children. He said it was hard on his mom and dad, but he was extremely grateful that they didn’t do birth control after #16!
 
Masondoggy, you could send me the link, I’d love to give them a piece of my mind (I say could because you probably shouldn’t, I get very um uncatholic when I’m speaking to people like that).

I think it’s great to be so open to life. Now that being said, I could never do that! I’d probably run out of eggs, hehehe. Plus, going to medical school, i’m waiting until i’m at least 25 to even concistor starting to have kids. I want 6 or more though. I doubt i’d be able to have 17 but it would be kinda fun trying, although 10 kids would probably be good enough for me.

God bless this family.😃
 
I didn’t know a woman could have that many visitors in her hospital room 😉 . —KCT
 
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Masondoggy, you could send me the link, I’d love to give them a piece of my mind (I say could because you probably shouldn’t, I get very um uncatholic when I’m speaking to people like that).
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That would mean I’d have to go back to copy the link and I might be tempted to read the replies…which probably isn’t a good idea because I am in one heck of a snippy mood today. Lord knows what I’ll say next. :eek: 😃 I think what really set off my snippy mood was when a poster made some comment like, I don’t care how many kids they have as long as I don’t have to see them…:mad: :mad: OK, that did it. I should have been more charitable. But I wasn’t.
I’ve decided to stay away for a few days when I know that thread will be on the next page. Sometimes avoidance is the best medicine. I’m just in no mood to hear all the anti-family/anti-kid comments that are rampant. Yuk.
 
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I didn’t know a woman could have that many visitors in her hospital room 😉 . —KCT
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Did you see their episode where the whole family squeezed into the tiny ultrasound room? That was pretty funny. 🙂
 
I hear ya. I just got done helping with Vacation bible school. When your with 20 kids give or take under the age of 8 for 3 hours, you really don’t wanna hear people say anti-kid things. 😉
 
Fitz said:
I have never seen this family on TV, but would love to. I think it all sounds like so much fun. They are doing God’s will actually.

I am from a family of seven. I personally have 4 children. When I was growing up my older sisters meant the world to me. To this day we are all very close. Everyone is coming to my house on Saturday for a family reunion. My cousins are coming and they were in a family of 10. I will have about 150 people here I think. I have a tent sitting outside to set up tomorrow.

I don’t think it is cold at all to buddy up the kids. Everyone learns some responsiblity and I am sure the mom still pays attention to the younger ones. It is just a system to give each and every baby more adult conversation. It will help develop their vocabulary. I am sure the ones they are buddied with will be very special to them their whole lives.

My oldest sister is 5 years older than me and I idolized her. I cried when she went off to college. I was able to talk to her at times when I did not want to tell my mom something.

I will have to say that being in a larger family has been one of the best blessing my whole life long. I can’t tell you how close we all are and how much we rely on each other. We would do anything for each other.

Yes we had to share rooms, and clothes, and our parents. However, the love multiplied and I think God knows that. More children is more love. I sometimes wish I had more children myself. My youngest is 17 and will be in his last year of hs this year. He is the only one that lives at home now and I miss the years we were raising all of them. I think it is a very special time.
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Lovely post! I enjoyed reading it so much, thankyou Fitz. 🙂
 
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