A woman from Arkansas surprised her family on a US tv show by telling them that she was expecting a baby. This will be Michelle Duggar’s 18th child.
To date, the Duggars? 17 natural children range in age from 20 years to 9 months. Included in the mix are 10 boys and seven girls ? Joshua, twins Jana and John-David, Jill, Jessa, Jinger, Joseph, Josiah, Joy-Anna, twins Jedidiah and Jeremiah, Jason, James, Justin, Jackson, Johannah and baby Jennifer, who arrived last Aug. 2.
With two sets of twins, Michelle, 41, has gone through 15 pregnancies that ended in 13 natural deliveries and two Caesarean sections.
But the family insist that they do not live off of benefits in the US. They claim their family is debt-free, with the entire bunch helping to build their 7,000-square-foot home in Tontitown.
The Duggars, who were married in 1984 and are followers of evangelical Christian movement Quiveral, prayed for as many children as God would give them. Within a year, Michelle was pregnant with the first of their two sets of twins.
Each child learns to play the violin and the piano, and wh child number 18 is born, they will have enough kids for two full baseball teams.
In total, Michelle has been pregnant for 135 months of her life, with an average of 18 months between births.
