For a second, I thought that Jessa Duggar and Ben Seewald were just going to hand all of their exclusives to People Magazine. But that’s not the case. While People Magazine published this “first family photo” of Ben, Jessa and Baby Duggar-Seewald, the photo was also posted to the Facebook page belonging to Jessa and Jill’s new TLC spin-off show, Jill & Jessa: Counting On. Thank God Jessa got back on reality TV, otherwise she might have to get a real job at some point.
Anyway, as we learned late last week, Jessa and Ben welcomed their first child, a little boy. We still don’t know the name. Jill and Derrick named their son Israel, which doesn’t really give me an idea for how Jessa and Ben will go with their baby-naming. My guess is that they’ll totally go biblical, of course, but will it be trendy-biblical or just average biblical? Like, “Noah” is really trendy right now. But “Mark” or “Peter” would just be average. For some reason, “Ezekiel” just popped into my head and it won’t leave. Ezekiel Seewald?
All of the Duggar women have a thing about home births and midwives and all of that. I think in Michelle’s later pregnancies, she was so old that her doctors wanted her to give birth in a hospital, but Michelle’s daughters seem to all want to try home births. When Jill gave birth to Israel, there were so many complications that she ended up being hospitalized for several days. Jessa did give birth at home, but then she had to be rushed to the hospital.
Jessa Duggar delivered a baby boy Thursday night, but it wasn’t easy … we’ve learned she tried giving birth at home but there were complications and she was rushed to the hospital. We’re told Jessa was taken by ambulance from one of the Duggar homes in Fayetteville, Arkansas to the local hospital. It’s unclear what happened, but we do know she was trying to do a home birth.
The baby weighed in at 9 lbs 11 oz., and measured more than 21 inches, so it just may have been too big. Jessa married Ben Seewald last year. It’s their first kid together and if she follows in her mom’s footsteps … it probably won’t be their last.
[From TMZ]
The Daily Mail got their hands on the 911 call that Michelle Duggar apparently placed, because she was there for the birth. You can read the Mail’s reporting here – while this family offers up all of these kinds of details for public consumption, I do think listening to the panicked 911 call made by Michelle is too ghoulish for my taste. I do hope Jessa’s okay.
Photos courtesy of TLC’s Facebook, Jessa’s Facebook.
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