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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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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 13)
4-07-2010 @ 1:02PM
LINDA said...I'M THRILLED FOR MOM DUGGAR, AND THE WHOLE FAMILY, BUT NOW MICHELE NEEDS TO LEARN TO " JUST SAY NO"
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4-07-2010 @ 3:06PM
b.a. said...linda not only that, but he needs to keep it in his pants!
4-07-2010 @ 3:30PM
jessica said...Hey guys, he's just trying to raise his evolutionary fitness.
4-07-2010 @ 3:34PM
mcurtis2962 said...Who are any of you to say these things. Last I checked, it was a free country. Listen to yourselves. They provide a very confortable life for these kids and have raised them with values and morals. Koodos to the Duggers. We need more parents like them.
It's all the loosers making negative comments that should be ridiculed.
4-07-2010 @ 3:39PM
montreaux1991 said...Yes! But you know as well as I do that she can't get it through her skull that the preeclampsia and premature birth of her daughter is her body screaming "ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!"
It's time she listened to her body instead of her "faith," otherwise those 19 children probably won't have a mother if she goes for #20.
4-07-2010 @ 3:39PM
obey111 said...You all Just have no idea what it means to obey God! They do and good for them!
4-07-2010 @ 3:40PM
montreaux1991 said...mcurtis2962 : Not when it's MY TAX DOLLARS paying for their 19 kids; they crossed the line of "every child is a blessing" at #7, which is when large families are automatically eligible for government assistance.
4-07-2010 @ 3:49PM
J.H. said...So Obey, how do you know what orders God is handing out?
4-07-2010 @ 4:07PM
grandma2 said...Learn to say No and get the TV fixed
4-07-2010 @ 4:27PM
Lisa Green said...Glad the baby is finally healthy enough to go home-now please shut down that baby maker for good-its just nasty/creepy-baby after baby....Jim_Bob may as well have PERVERT tatted on his forehead..its digustingly irresponsible-allow those older daughters to get their own life-instead of rasing YOUR Babies that you gave birth to.....
4-07-2010 @ 4:30PM
Jana said..."I will be her main caregiver" WHAT? If you have so many kids that you CANNOT be the main caregiver than you might have had too many kids. Additionally, duggar fans, do you know how much four months in NICU costs? Do you realize that you are footing the bill in the form of higher health insurance premiums?
4-07-2010 @ 4:33PM
Flutterby said...Montreaux-The preeclampsia was caused by high blood pressure which resulted from a gallbladder problem. The gall bladder problem wasnt related to pregnancy. .If it had happened between pregnancies it wouldnt have been that big a deal I've had 3 kids, the youngest of whom is 17 & I have had the same high blood pressure caused by the same gallbladder problem this year.
These people raise respectful, well-adjusted, children with morals & values. They don't get welfare. Your tax dollars dont pay a flippin thing for them that they dont pay for everyone else on this page. AND their kids will grow up & pay their own taxes & contribute to society, not be a drain on it unlike alot of todays kids who grow up with an attitude like yours. Next time you want to comment get your facts straight!
4-07-2010 @ 4:32PM
kathleen said...I am so happy to see this family thrive and I can't understand why someone would have a problem with them.
4-12-2010 @ 2:26PM
sus said...Jim Bob is a an idiot...when asked to describe the day the baby was born, he goes into a bunch of statistics...he's a "know-it-all" and the more I see and listen to him the more I dislike him! What Michelle sees in him is beyond me. I guess when you have 19 kids, you cant just leave him!
4-07-2010 @ 5:05PM
TN_Charity said...I know they are strong Christians. I respect that. They have raised all of their children well. You'll never find another family filled with so many children that are *that* well behaved. And that's all great and everything, and I will even back you on the fact that the bible says something about multiplying our numbers. But that was way back in a time of VERY FEW PEOPLE. So, just cause you are educated in the bible, and I am not bashing you if you are...then educate yourself on the welfare of the EARTH at present. Cause people have multiplied, but our precious resources aren't multiplying that fast. At present, people fight for water sources, the ground is over over-farmed that there aren't enough nutrients in the veggies you buy at the store, and space is becoming painfully thinner each generation. SO, yes, I do judge. She needs to put a stopper in it. Its a vagina, not a clown car. And unless she is Mother Nature, capable of replenishing the Earth's resources, she needs to stop. PERIOD.
4-07-2010 @ 5:17PM
Enough is Enough said...to mcurtis, it's kudos not koodos. As for the Duggars it is time for them to stop. I am no medical expert but have watch many many many medical documentaries and medical shows and i know enough that the female body is not equipped to handle that many pregnancies. This child was born prematurely because Mrs. Duggars body is worn out and she cannot sustain a pregnancy to full term any more. They should be happy with the family they have and enjoy the grandchildrent that they will have inthe future.
As for raising them, if it were not for the show I doubt that they would be able to support a family of 19 children. It is the show that paid for the huge new home they built a few years back. Mr. and Mrs. Duggar rely heavily on the older children to help raise and take care of the smaller children, they cannot do it on their own. If the children were not busy with cooking, cleaning and doing laundry Mrs. Duggar would never be able to keep up with it all.
4-07-2010 @ 5:19PM
rex said...just say no may work for drugs but that would should have her knees sewed together
4-07-2010 @ 5:59PM
missjenngirl said...I am trilled too! But why is this a sign that she should stop having kids? Many woman have the same complication she had with their first or second child. She didn't do anything wrong. And if the Duggars continue to bring children into the world that are excellent students, citizens and are not a drag on the welfare system like others I encourage them.
Regardless It is No one's place to critize their family values... We do not pay their bills.
4-07-2010 @ 8:50PM
Donna said...I hope she doesn't get pregnant again or at least for a couple of years.. this little baby is going to need special attention for awhile... I am thankful she is doing fine...
4-07-2010 @ 6:20PM
denise said...Every baby takes something out of you. The cost of 4 months in the NICU was probably around 2million bucks of which some was paid by u and I. Most health insurances have a cap and that means the baby already has used up its life cap and will not be insured for the rest of its 18 yrs till she can get her own insurance. I am almost sure that the baby will need a Synagist inoculation against the virus RSV. The odds of getting RSV and being very ill from it or dying from it are pretty good when u are a preemie and have 18 brothers and sisters who undoubtitly have had it and it was a cold like syndrome for them. If she has any vision problems from the oxygen she has been on the glasses will be on the parents. But hey have more kids everybody we need you to pay our social security.