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The littlest Duggar is heading home. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's 19th child, daughter Josie Brooklyn, has been released from the hospital after spending four months in the neonatal intensive care unit.

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"We are so happy," Michelle Duggar says. "We are so excited, we are running on adrenaline."

Josie Brooklyn weighed just 1 pound, 6 ounces when she was born on Dec. 10, and survived a bowel perforation at eight days old, People.com reports. Josie now weighs 4 pounds, 9 ounces, is breathing without oxygen, eating every three hours and stable enough to go home, says her physician, Dr. Robert Arrington.

Josie was released from the Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock on April 6, and the Duggars will remain in a rental home nearby indefinitely until they are ready to take the little girl home to Tontitown, Ark., People.com reports. According to a Duggar spokesperson, the time frame for the family to return to Tontitown could be anywhere between a week and a month.

"I will be her main caregiver," Michelle Duggar says, "and we'll have a lot of helpers around to take turns feeding her and getting her to sleep."

The youngest Duggar children -- Jackson, 5, Johanna, 4, Jennifer, 2, and Jordyn, 15 months -- have never seen Josie in person and "are jumping up and down that they will finally get to meet their baby sister," Michelle Duggar tells People.com.

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