Baby Josie Duggar Finally Goes Home From the Hospital
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Baby Josie now weighs 7 lbs. 6 oz. Credit: Scott Enlow, TLC
After months of health issues and hospitalization, Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar's 19th child, Josie Brooklyn, is finally going home from the hospital, People magazine reports.
Josie weighed just 1 lb. 6 oz. when she was born on Dec. 10 via emergency C-section at just 25 weeks. She then suffered a perforated bowel when she was eight days old.
The couple, stars of TLC's "19 Kids and Counting," took Josie home from the hospital on April 6, but then she was readmitted two days later.
This time, though, doctors have identified the source of her health issues.
"Her digestive issues have been linked to lactose intolerance," says her physician Dr. Robert Arrington, co-director of the neonatal intensive care unit at Arkansas Children's Hospital. "We are happy that she is doing so well and fully expect her to continue to thrive. Today, as she's leaving, she looks like a full-term baby."
The Duggars will live with Josie, who now weighs 7 lbs. 6 oz., in their Little Rock rental house until they are ready to take her home, probably in a few weeks, People reports.
"We're going to wait and see how it all goes," says Michelle. "We're going to take it easy and hang out close to the hospital."
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6-04-2010 @ 10:17AM
faith said...I am extremely happy for the Duggar family. Although I don't share their religious beliefs,I respect them for remaining true to them. Several times on their show they have been seen praying for Josie...who knows,perhaps there is something to the power of prayer
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6-04-2010 @ 10:20AM
Renae said...Hope everything goes fine with the baby, I know the family is glad she's home after such a long hospital stay. I've watched the show on and off and I feel that while they are raising the kids with good values they are not allowing them to be individuals outside of their belief system. I mean what if they choose to live outside of Arkansas, have plans for college/a career, what if they don't want this life forever, how about talking to them about their right to choose how or what they want to do after they are finished their "home schooling.". They know nothing about the real world and life outside of having babies or what a real strong woman looks like, cause haivng 19 babies doesn't make you a strong woman or man. And how about she stop having kids, that along with her age probably played a factor in this birth.
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6-04-2010 @ 10:24AM
ivette said...I'm so happy baby Josie is going home. I follow the Duggars on the TLC program and I think they are amazing. I find it marvelous how Michelle and Jim Bob are raising there kids. I have been praying for Josie and I know God has a purpose for her in this world. I love the Brooklyn, cause I live in Brooklyn NY. God Bless and I'm still thanking God for keeping her healthy.
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6-04-2010 @ 10:24AM
Terri said...I am glad the baby is okay but what is the need for so many children? It's not possible to have quality time with that many children!
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6-04-2010 @ 10:21AM
Jeremy said...Please stop giving press to these extremists and their cult-like sect of Christianity.
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6-04-2010 @ 10:35AM
von said...You have said all that needs to be said. This rabbit breeding and media attention has got to stop! Gosh, how sick. Do they do anything else? Pick up another hobby, I bet she did not get neutered.
6-04-2010 @ 12:27PM
lynn said...I have seen the show a few times and it is cute. I think that it is time for the family to learn about birth control. Having such a large family is not helping the world population. Think with your brains.
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6-04-2010 @ 10:30AM
ann said...right on Jeremy
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6-04-2010 @ 10:35AM
Ramona said...This is another TV family gone wrong!
I am glad that there baby girl is well. But agree the publicity on this family should stop.
FIRST, the TV show pays a very nice salary to the whole family. Each person on that show receives a paycheck. The kids should have work permits. Coogan's law requires the family to put back a substantial portion of the money each under 18 child receives and it must go into a bank account in their name. But they (the parents) can still take out money for things like clothes, expenses and just fun things for the kids. One more child ... ONE MORE PAYCHECK.
SECOND, the family remodeled after they got the show. Of course, because the show probably paid for the remodel to accomodate the film crew and after all it is tax deductible to the show as a stage.
THIRD, the son who is married now is able to subsidize his income with the payments for his child being on the show...
STOP STOP ALREADY... it is a money pit for them... So they will all quickly have more kids.
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6-04-2010 @ 10:47AM
Marge said...Don't forget, the Duggers did lose one baby (I believe via a miscarriage), so technically, they have had 20 children.
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6-04-2010 @ 10:47AM
Barbara Sanders said...Hey folks.......Ever heard of BIRTH CONTROL???? We know what you two are doing constantly........you have enough KIDS, which is really unfair to them. When do they ever get "one on one" time with their parents. It's always a "group" thing. It's almost like a cult. This is going to kill Michelle if she doesn't quit this childbirth thing every yr! He, Jim Bob just sits there and "grins". It's disgusting. Her body is WORN OUT from constant childbirth. She has been pregnant for 19 yrs! And she just sits there and "smiles" sweetly. They must have plently of time for SEX! It's disgusting to me. and NOT CUTE or sweet. Jim Bob is an idiot.......does he even work? It ends up the older kids take care of the little ones......Stop the music!! before the mother dies in childbirth. She is getting too old to keep this up!
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6-05-2010 @ 9:23AM
Ginny said...I agree with all you have said , Also Jim Bob aways says he teaches his kid to have self control when he cant even control him self , I think he needs to practice what he preaches,
6-04-2010 @ 2:11PM
Jim said...The incredable saga of the Duggars continues. It is a CRIMINAL
premise to contune to spit babies out of the irresponsible pairing
of these 2 people. In todays world of continuing and ever increasing
over-population, these people have no sense of resposibility to their
fellow human beings on the planet. If each child follows the same pattern as the parents, in just FIVE generations 47 MILLION new
people will further burden the earth for these two rabbit-like breeders. EVERY problem encountered on our limited planet is directely related to TOO MANY PEOPLE....The pollution of the air we must breath and the water we must drink, as well as the destruction on the rain forests and loss of habitat for the other inhabitatants of our incredible planet.
GOD never intended any marriage to produce copius over-production of children. And who is parenting this hoard? The older
childen are raising their siblings, while the mother and father breed in an unending glut of un-protected sex.
And it is very disturbing for TLC to glorify this injustice on a weekly televison program. Perhaps her uterus WILL fall out and end this
animal breeding!
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6-04-2010 @ 10:50AM
Jean said...I respect religious values, but to keep on having so many bobies for your older children to tend to is outrageous. Even the little ones do chores that the Mother is supposed to do. I saw the 2 year old dragging laundry up stairs. You see the kids working all the time, but never her. Jimmy Bob is going to be left with the kids cause he is killing her. God is trying to tell them enough already!! I feel sorry for these kids. They never will know what a normal life is all about.
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6-04-2010 @ 10:54AM
Caitlin said...This is a sign from your god that you need to stop having babies you freakin weirdo.
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6-04-2010 @ 10:54AM
Joan said...I am delighted this little one is ready to go home. But, I still have to question the wisdom of having 19 children. Raising three, I felt it was hard to attend to all of their physical and emotional needs at times and can't imagine raising 19! I do hope they STOP having children.
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6-04-2010 @ 10:59AM
Mary Scirdinsky said...Having Josie should be a good warning sign for Michelle, QUIT ALREADY.
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6-04-2010 @ 11:03AM
Susan said...I'd rather see decent people with morals have lots of children than low class people. Did you ever watch The Maury Show and see these fathers that have 30+ children with 30 different women and not pay anything in child support? Let's stop getting down on The Duggars and go after the 'little weasels' out there that like to impregnate their whole community...those are the 'families??' that are getting the welfare and the food stamps and prenatal care at the cost of the taxpayers !! By the way, Jim Bob Duggar owns property that he rents out to huge companies, so he does have an income. If you really listened when you watched the show you would know that.
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6-04-2010 @ 11:10AM
jon said...these people are sick and then you give them a tv show????? wtf is wrong with you people???
does anybody know the def. of hoarding?>??????
you make me sick!
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6-04-2010 @ 11:05AM
WILL said...THESE PPL ARE SCARY LOOKING
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