Jessa Duggar and her husband, Ben Seewald, welcomed their 5th child on Tuesday, December 19, after in the past struggling a miscarriage.
“Baby is here and we couldn’t be more grateful!” Duggar, 31, wrote by means of Instagram on Saturday, December 23, sharing a health facility photograph along with her new child son.
The Counting On alum additionally shared a hyperlink to her YouTube channel, the place she detailed her start tale.
“So, after laboring for about 12 hours, I was moved [from an emergency room bed] into my room and I was able to get an epidural shortly after that,” she recalled within the social media video. “And it worked great on one side and it was, like, sort of spotty on the other side. It wasn’t a perfect take, but I would say 80 percent better than what it was before getting it.”
After Duggar’s physician informed her that the infant used to be nonetheless “pretty high up,” she made up our minds to “shut off” the epidural. Duggar then adopted her midwife’s recommendation to transport into quite a lot of positions to take a look at and rotate the infant. As soon as the infant began descending, Duggar felt extra contractions and had medical doctors readminister the epidural.
Duggar used to be joined within the health facility by way of husband Seewald, 28, and her mom, Michelle.
“The sweetest moment [was] when they raised the baby up and put him on me,” Jessa gushed within the video. “Just holding him there, I think there were just so many emotions in that moment [and] so many things that you’re processing. It’s been a year since we lost our last baby and just a flood of emotions.”
The couple — who tied the knot in November 2014 — are already folks of sons Spurgeon and Henry and daughters Ivy and Fern.
Duggar introduced in September 2023 that she used to be pregnant. “After a heartbreaking loss last year, we’re so thankful God has blessed us with a rainbow baby,” she wrote by means of her Instagram Tale on the time, together with a hyperlink to a YouTube video in regards to the information.
The 19 Youngsters and Counting alum confirmed off her sure being pregnant check within the video shared by means of the circle of relatives’s YouTube channel. “Just this past week we found out some wonderful news that our rainbow baby is on the way,” she stated. “We couldn’t be more excited.”
Six months previous, Duggar published that she had suffered a miscarriage. “Nothing could’ve prepared me for the weight of those words at that moment,” she recalled in February 2023, including that she “immediately started crying” as she and Seewald started “trying to process the loss [while] sitting there and holding hands and crying.”
Duggar spoke candidly in regards to the moments prior to she underwent a D&C process. “Right as they were wheeling me back [to the operating room], I just wanted to ask, like, ‘Just, can I please have one more ultrasound? Please, somebody check, make sure,’” she recounted. “I was having all these fears that maybe they got something wrong. … You know it’s irrational, but you just feel scared.”
Duggar — who in the past suffered every other miscarriage prior to welcoming daughter Fern — remembered the “hollow feeling inside” following the process as a result of “the life that was in you is no longer there and you never did get to see your baby and say those goodbyes.”
Over time, Duggar has been open about how her lifestyles modified when she was a mom. “I think there were so many things that I felt like, ‘I totally know how to do this. I’ve been around kids,’ but then when it’s your own kid, it’s totally different,” she completely informed Us Weekly in July 2020. “For one, it’s your responsibility.”
As she navigated parenthood, Duggar leaned on skilled moms for recommendation. “I’m constantly going to moms who are a season ahead of me, like my own mom, saying, ‘Hey, do you have a kid with this personality?’ Or ‘Have you dealt with this issue before?’ Or ‘How do you keep your cool?’” she defined. “That’s something I always ask my mom if I feel like I’m getting frustrated over little things. I’m totally just in awe of my mom’s patience, for sure.”