I have a bit of Gossip - Are you ready for #18
TANNER'S MOM wrote: Michelle Duggar is now pregnant with her 18th child. A co-worker here attends church with her and says she is now going to have another child.
Bless her heart cause if I had 17 kids I would not let Randy look at me and I would stop drinking the water.. asap..lolol 
Calimama replied: I must have missed number 17!.. wow..just.. wow.
hoosier momma replied: She must be crazy. And she must have more patience than anyone on this Earth. Is she the one that has the special on the discovery health channel?
gr33n3y3z replied: wow
TANNER'S MOM replied:
Yes that's her.. Jackson was number 17
Calimama replied:
I wonder how quick her labors go. 
kimberley replied:  God gave her strength i'll never know. good for her.
CantWait replied: Holy geez!!!!!!! 
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
She farts to push em out...
MyLuvBugs replied: Oh HOLY WOW! She and my Great Grandma......maybe they'll stop with 18?? 
lisar replied: WOW.... Not me. There isnt no way I could do that. Good for her is she can handle it.
MyBrownEyedBoy replied: I'd stop drinking the water, stop stepping near my husband and I'd probably threaten him with castration if he looked at me.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: I just looked for info ron them - and it says they only have 16?! Am I missing something?
jcc64 replied: I know we had a pretty heated thread last time her name came up, and I'm not aiming to start another one, but my initial reaction to that is sadness for her other kids. I know she must be extraordinary in many ways, but I can't believe that the emotional needs of all of those kids are being adequately met. When I watched that special, there was a disturbing lack of affect with some of the kids, especially some of the older ones. They seemed obedient and dutiful, but a little, well, programmed, for lack of a better word. Like it was more of a military organization than a family. I'm sure they're all loved and cared for, but I just don't see how it's logistically possible to meet all of their needs as individuals.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: a funny (in my opinion) article... some language... could be offensive to some
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...notes101905.DTL
Hillbilly Housewife replied:
Jackson was # 15...
msoulz replied:
LOL Rocky!! I mean, literally, LOL!!!!
MyBrownEyedBoy replied: This is from October 2005. So I suppose it is entirely possible for her to have had #17 and be preggers with #18.
1. Joshua, 17;
2. John David, 15;
3. Janna, 15;
4. Jill, 14;
5. Jessa, 12;
6. Jinger, 11;
7. Joseph, 10;
8. Josiah, 9;
9. Joy-Anna, 8;
10. Jeremiah, 6;
11. Jedidiah, 6;
12. Jason, 5;
13. James, 4;
14. Justin, 2;
15. Jackson Levi, 1
16. Johannah
Hillbilly Housewife replied: I've been looking... can't find anything.... 
Oh I know it's possible, because Naomie was born october 2005 and I could have had another by now and be preggers too... I just can't find anything!!! 
3_call_me_mama replied: If i remember correctly the special on TV was called 16 kids and pregnant again.. andthat was over a year ago..... IIRC!
skinkybaby replied: I'm just super impressed that they came up with that many J names
luvbug00 replied: i agree with Jeanne 100% 
holley79 replied:
I was lucky to come up with one name. 
I'm with Jeanne, thre is no way all those kids have the "emotional" contact they need. JMO though....
TANNER'S MOM replied: video
I think it's in this video they say they have 17..
Crystalina replied:
Ditto...I agree as well.
She probably thinks that if you can handle 15 then why not 16 and then why not 17,18,19 or 20? I'm not trying to bring the thread down but I say if you take away all of their "support" and let the older kids be kids instead of mini nannys, and she had to do everything on her own like so many moms do then she would have stopped along time ago. Any woman can be an incubator but what about a mommy? I've seen how she runs her house and it's like a bootcamp. Sorry, my sister has 7 kids and she is an organizing freak but she doesn't make her older kids raise the younger ones. They are allowed to be kids. She is a nurse and her DH is a doctor and they are great parents and have a "family".
Ok, I'm done being a scrooge. 
lisar replied:
Thats what I thought. Maybe they will do another special on them. If anyone hears of it let me know please so I wont miss it.
skinkybaby replied: I dunno. You can find something wrong with the way every single parent runs their house. Just because you don't agree with it doesn't mean it's the wrong way to do things. Who am I to judge them?
Crystalina replied:
Not judging. Just stating my opinion on what I've seen about that family. If they don't want peoples opinions they should stay off of the Discovery channel. 
skinkybaby replied: We'll just have to agree to disagree
Boo&BugsMom replied: I'm in between. One part of me says, geesh stop already will ya? Another part of me thinks good for them! I suppose it's not my business and I really don't know who the people are so it would be unfair for me to assume without being in their shoes. Also, I know tv leaves a lot of things out so I think it would be an unfair assessment based on only that. If the kids are being loved and cared for and grow up to be wonderful human beings, then more power to them I suppose. I just can't imagine having that many. Wow! I go crazy with just my 4 daycare kids, let alone 18 of my own...yikes! God bless her patience and warm heart. Some women would have gone psycho by now.
luvmykids replied:
LMBO....after number, oh, eleven, I'd have a super duty lock on that!
But I think that although I disagree with some of their ideals, IMHO they do a good job and I have to give them credit for not being on any assistance, so best wishes to them.
Boo&BugsMom replied:
I always wondered that. I think some people assume they are considering the size of their family. Good for them! I have even more respect for them now.
quinnandjacob'smom replied: Wow, the last special I saw she was on #13 I think. I didn't know she'd had more since then. I'm overwhelmed most days with 2!
redchief replied: She's going to run clean out of "J's".
C&K*s Mommie replied: When my parents were younger it was completely normal to have a football team sized family. And not an eyelash was batted at it back then.
To say the least they were very very poor even back then, (my father still cannot eat potatos without cringing because they had them for months on end-breakfast, lunch and dinner- because they were so poor).
I am saddened that they continue to push them out, but if the kids are happy and well adjusted then so be it for them. I cannot judge.
That was a hilarious editorial, Rocky.
jcc64 replied: I think one of the many reasons people had more children back in the day was because of the much higher infant mortality rate, in addition to the need for more hands to help out on the farm, not to mention the lack of access to birth control/medical care.
Boo&BugsMom replied:
Those, along with the fact that mothers got to stay home more to raise their children I think as well.
cameragirl21 replied: I'm just offended that out of 17 kids with J names, not a single one is called Jennifer!
In all seriousness though, I agree with Jeanne...if you have to color code your kids in order to keep track of them in public, you probably have too many.
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