Baby Machine: AR Mom To Squeeze Out 17th Kid
 

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Arkansas Mom Prepares for Birth of 17th Child
Monday , May 07, 2007

LITTLE ROCK —

The Duggars are once again pulling out the pink ruffles and lace as they prepare for the birth of baby number 17.

Michelle Duggar said Monday in a telephone interview from her northwest Arkansas home that the whole family is excited about the arrival of the baby girl they will name Jennifer Danielle, keeping with the family tradition of giving the child a name that begins with J.

Jennifer Danielle is due July 27.

Duggar, 40, said she was doing fine with her latest pregnancy. Although she has gotten older since she had her first child at age 21, she said, she still has plenty of energy and only minor aches and pains.

"With each baby, God's given me the grace and the energy to keep going, and they really keep you going," she said. "I feel like a 20-year-old kid, but I'm realizing my body isn't that 20-year-old. I don't get up and play the games as hard as I used to, and I try to be a little more careful."

Duggar said she and husband Jim Bob, a former state representative and U.S. senate candidate, view each phase of their children's lives as an adventure.

"I've never been a mom of a 19-year-old young man and a 17-year-old young man and woman, so every phase of parenting is an exciting adventure" Duggar said.

The Duggars home school their children at their 7,000-square foot home in Tontitown. The couple's oldest child, Joshua, is 19, and their youngest, Johanna Faith, is 19 months. Their children include two sets of twins.

Because the couple sees each child as a blessing from God, Michelle Duggar said they will, as long as she is able, accept each child they are given.

"Really, our heart is we would love to receive whatever gifts or blessings the Lord wants to give us," she said. "But I love the baby stage and I can't imagine life without having a toddler in the house."

Two of the Duggar children, Janna, 17, and Jill, 15, attended Johanna's birth at St. Mary's hospital in Rogers in 2005. Duggar said the two girls, who both have an interest in becoming midwives or nurses, may attend Jennifer's birth as well.

And though she has 16 children, Duggar said that each child is so different there are times when she feels like she knows nothing about parenting.

"Here I am a mama with her 17th child on the way, and so many people think 'Oh you've got it all figured out,"' Duggar said. "I am still learning. Just when I think I've got something figured out I try it on the next one and it doesn't work."

The Duggars' other children are John David, 17; Jessa, 14; Jinger, 13; Joseph, 12; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 10; Jeremiah, 8; Jedidiah, 8; Jason, 7, James, 5; Justin, 4; and Jackson Levi, 2.

The Duggars home school their children at their 7,000-square foot home in Tontitown. The couple's oldest child, Joshua, is 19, and their youngest, Johanna Faith, is 19 months. Their children include two sets of twins.

Helloooooooo cult in the making.

She could have saved time and dropped them in litters :usd:

When I was a kid we knew a family that lived in Glen Cove on Long Island that had 21 or 22 kids! Fascinating family, the older kids took care of the younger ones. Their house was suprisingly neat and well kept.

My Boss is 1 of 18 in his family.


Talk about Wagging a Hot Dog in a Hallway

This women must be like mayonnaise........she spreads for bread......

Broomstick in the Callahan Tunnel.

must be a good irish catholic family . no birth control . my grandfather was the 3rd oldest of 22 and the last to die . my mother in law was 1 of 18 . both irish catholic families . My family isnt we have 2 kids 12 and 9 after 23 years of marriage . we are a good practicing family , practicing on having kids .

Broken TV

God ought to tell her about the over population
of the planet he created :wall:

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I used to think homeschool was a cultish thing too...
My wife is an academic advisor at a university - she said the homeschool kids she sees are off-the-wall brilliant..

Brilliant, but Social Misfits
 

Kids need to be around kids, and that doesn't happen enough unless home schooled kids live in a neighborhood with lost of them. All the ones I have known were book smart, but they had no clue how to interact with people their own age. Socialization is something you build as you grow, not something you figure out later in life.

No way they afford all those kiddies on thier own.:rotf2:

are they well-socialized? :confused:

friends of mine
 

home school their kids....
but still schedual them to attend
school activities on weekends
and also church activities too.

this allows them socialization opportunities.

MakoMike
 

Was that the Cappabanco (sp) family? I think they lived on Walnut St in GC. I lived in GC until 1971 and went to St Pats and GCHS.
I drove thru there last year when I was in Melville for work . Not like it use to be.

Yeah, that sounds like the name. I don't really remember their name but that sounds close. I haven't been to GC in 40 years or so.

In the early 80's I taught at St. Dominic's in Oyster Bay, right next to Glen Cove. I'm sure I had a Cappobianco (little different spelling than Whiplash's) in one of my classes and seem to remember another enrolled at the same time. Wonder if it's the same family?

She said they acclimate to college life pretty well....
But who are we to judge how well adjusted other people are? We're all enthralled by what is essentially an anti-social sport...

don't let her anywhere near tom brady

By then I'm sure that if it was the same family, it had to be one of the kid's kids. When I knew the big family in the 60's the youngest was 2 and the oldest was 24.

My sons friend was Home-schooled. He played on the High School Football and LaCrosse teams and had no social issues whatsoever. He was pretty much the same as all the rest of the kids just a little better educated.