I’m happy for them! I love their family and honestly don’t understand why so many people seem to hate the family.

I say Jacob or Janelle. (wink wink)

Janelle

They are always so happy :) I kinda love them
Not sure I could manage 20 myself, but all the power to them!

Ok I like the family and think that they are awesome people, BUT after what happened to Michelle’s body with Josie I don’t think that it would be wise to potentially put another child at risk like that. Just my opinion.

I love the Duggars and would love to some day meet them. It’s their choice and look forward to watching them and seeing if it’s a boy or girl. Michelle has a beautiful spirit and never complains. You can see and feel the love they all have for one another. I vote for “Jude” or “Jade”….

I love the Duggars. They are a beautiful loving family and I think they are not really asking for anyones approval. That said, why is her age never a factor in criticism? Her kids are beautifully taken care of so I would think the criticism of having “too many kids” would be a wash out. I am concerned because she is 45.

children are a gift from God and if he chose to give them another gift who are we to say anything about it. I just pray everything goes well with her health and the baby’s.

I love to watch their show and the lives all onfold it is very inspiring too see how they handle their children. I have had a daycare in my home for over 30 years,and I love children, it has been my life to care for them. God Bless you on your new up coming baby I was hoping you was not going to stop at 19.I have 6 grandchildren of my own one is a brand new baby girl, my oldest daughter and son-in law used all T names for their children.

Cora Seery
Lic. Home Group Childcare Provider
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I always feel conflicted about this. Is it necessary to have 20 children when there are more than 500,000 in foster care? Why not give a home to a child that is already here?

I definitely love the Duggars and I am very happy for them. The only thing that concerns me is that Michelle has had so many complications with her last pregnancy, resulting in a preemie with health issues. I just worry that she will have medical issues this time around, as well. I hope everyone is healthy. God Bless!

Jolene is a beautiful J name for a girl and for a boy Jeffrey

Taz I agree many children need homes maybe try that and get a hysterectomy

Everyone has the right to their own parenting styles and to the number of children they want to have. I am just not certain that it is medically wise to have a twentieth child when Michelle had so many complications with her last pregnancy. The poor little baby was born prematurely with a lot of problems too. I wouldn’t want to go through that again if I were them. I have experience with that and after one time with it I was certain that it was the last time even though it was just my second baby. We can all pray it does not happen for them again. She is a 45 year old woman who is in great health but after all she has 19 kids, why push it? Good luck to them and God bless.

I personally love them and the values that they share with their children and the world. While I am shocked that they are having number 20, God has always provided for them and I am excited to hear if it’s a boy or girl and what the new J name is going to be.

First off I have to say, I believe every child is a blessing and gift from God. However, with all the complications of last time, aren’t they afraid of Michelle not making it or the baby having even more trouble? Medically her uterus must be tired…lol! I just can’t see where having 19 children to raise, she isn’t more concerned about being there for those already here. Of course, maybe she is, and I do wish them all the best. I just know I couldn’t take that chance with the 2 children I have not having a mother in order to birth a “possible” third (taking precautions to stop pregnancy and stay safe and healthy, not in any way terminating the pregnancy that occurs). Now that she is indeed expecting the 20th, I hope it all goes well. I just think it is more important to have a mother than another sibling.

They don’t raise these kids, their older daughters do. Do THEY have a choice? And when your kids need to schedule face time with you, that’s a problem.

At what point does having more babies become like hoarding cats?

I don’t say Congrats. I say they can have as many kids as they want as long as they can pay for them and care for them and everyone is healthy. BUT with the last baby that was born premature and weak, the doctor’s advised her to not have more kids. Once you have one premature baby they worry that you will have more. So they really should have stopped after the premature baby. They don’t need more. They were blessed to have so many healthy children and now they need to stop. What if the next baby turns out to be a super preemie with all kinds of disabilities? What if Michelle dies in childbirth? Women in the old days died young because of the constant childbirth. It takes a toll on your body. I just think they are being reckless at this point.

I wanted to add that I have twins that we had to get through infertility measures. The pregnancy almost killed me and them. It was risky because really my body was not meant for baby carrying. I had to take blood thinner injections daily and there was a big risk of me bleeding out if something happened to me because of that. High risk of miscarriage. But I wanted to be a mother, so I did it. I risked it and they were born premature but healthy. The doctors advised me that if I want more children it will be more of the same like last time. So NO WAY would I have more kids. It is not worth making my children motherless if I died in another pregnancy. It is not worth having another baby that might die so my children will know their sibling is dead. I love kids and I am happy with what we have. But even if I wanted another kid more than anything, I would not have one. Sometimes you have to think about what is right compared to what you want.

I personally feel as though it’s their choice so long as they aren’t on public assistance. I feel like if you have multiple children you need to be able to provide them all the same opportunity. For me I couldn’t imagine giving twenty children enough of my time and attention or pay for college! I do feel as though the Duggar’s are taking it overboard especially given what happened with the last baby. At what point do you say the risk is not worth it?

I am so glad I am not one of their kids. Think back to your kindergarten class with its 20-25 kids. Do you think every child was connected to the teacher? There is no way each of those kids gets the parental attention and bonding they need. Plus bearing 20 kids is just gross. Its a vag not a clown car.

I agree that it’s their choice, but I also think it’s insane. And I find the whole fundamentalist reasoning for it creepy. Completely agree with bunnytwenty in that it’s like hoarding cats.

If each Duggar child has 20 kids of their own, the Duggars will have 400 grandchildren. If each grandchild has 20 kids, that will make 8,000 great grandchildren. Like some sort of virus, Duggars will spread slowly across the land, using up the planet’s resources, leaving nothing for the rest of us.

I don’t like the educational neglect of the female children. They are being raised to be fundamentalist wives and baby makers and nothing more.

Wow, shocked at how rude some people on here are. And yet if she had chosen 20 abortions would you all be cheering for her responsibility in not using the planet’s resources and preserving her body? I say that this is her and her husband’s decision, no one else!

And they are raising responsible kids with no assistance from all of us, so more power to them. Many, many, many others cannot say the same.

They aren’t a kindergarten class of craziness, they are a family. They are parents that have a lot of love and devotion to their family. And I pray she has a safe pregnancy and delivery and a happy, healthy baby just as I do for all expecting mothers.

She gives hope to all older women everywhere who are hoping to expand their families. Thanks for all the encouragement Michele!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May God bless the Duggar family. I agree with Heather she says it all except I would like to add that I pray for Michelle and her baby.May God keep them safe and healthy during her pregnancy and even later in life.

Rusty- maybe they use the resources more wisely than you.

More power to her, but who has to watch over all those little ones? It seems unfair to make sisters into “little mommies” to babysit cause it is evident she sure can’t handle the job herself alone.

Dro- I have NO Christian sympathies. But I believe it’s her choice and have no objection to them having as many as they can AFFORD to raise.
BTW- about the preemie thing- are all of you people prepared to insert yourselves into the decision of each and every woman who has had a preemie and rag on her for taking the risk?

yahoudi – unless they are breathing less air or drinking less water than my one child, then no.

I’d like to apologize for my last comment. Thinking about the Duggars gets me all riled up and I was being a smarta**. The simple point I am trying to make is this – The Duggars are being irresponsible and selfish by continuing to have more children at a time when overpopulation is a serious problem for this planet. That’s it.

Congrats to them..It’s there life to do what they want. Seems to me they are doing a good job raising respectful offspring. Jacob for a boy; Janine for a girl.

If they want to have 50 kids, that’s on them. They are able to finacially support thier kids w/o gov’t assistance and thier children seem nice, well behaved, kind, and happy. But I am concerened for this new baby, simply b/c Josie was born so early and with so many medical problems, that it does seem crazy for Michelle to put herself at risk again for a dangerous pregnancy. Hopefully, Michelle will have a uneventful and boring pregnancy and give birth to a happy and healthy baby.

I think about the population & resources problems that this planet is having & how irresponsible it is when you think globally. I understand that people have instinctual urges to reproduce because we are all warm-blooded mammals. But when you think about the exponential growth of population, these people are big contributors to that phenomenon. Besides looking at the bigger picture, I think having 20 kids is a tragedy because their children must suffer from attachment & neglect (on some scale emotionally) issues. It’s only to be expected. How would your current children feel if you keep having children to this extreme? I think they would feel that they aren’t enough.

It IS someone else’s business how many children people choose to have, even if we can’t legislate behavior we should be trying to influence it—for having fewer, not more, children. Overpopulation of our planet continues unabated, along with the consumption of resources this represents. If you care not whether we have sufficient food, water, open space, other animal life and some semblance of peace and serenity, OK fine, keep making babies until we’re all done in. If you do care, get a grip! Start raising the consciousness out there and consider the consequences of world population. It took 20,000 years to get from the first humans on record to 1 billion and 50 to 2 billion. We’re at 12 billion and counting.