The Duggar family has welcomed its newest member.
On Monday,Jessa (Duggar) Seewaldannounced that she and her husbandBen Seewaldwelcomed theirfourth child together. She has not yet revealed the sex or any further details.
Older sisterJill (Duggar) Dillardcommented on the post, writing, “Congrats sis! So happy for y’all!!.”
“So very excited for you guys!!!” sister-in-lawClaire Duggarwrote.
Jessa and Benannounced in Februarythat they were expecting their fourth child together after Jessa experienced a pregnancy loss last year.
Jessa (Duggar) Seewald.Jessa Duggar/instagram
On Monday, Jessa directed followers to part one of herbirth story YouTube video, saying part 2 was “coming soon!” The footage began with Jessa, on Tuesday, July 13 at 7:51 p.m., explaining that she had “been having a lot of contractions today but not necessarily like, super painful or anything. Just kind of that dull ache.”
The mother of four — who also shares sons Spurgeon, 5, and Henry, 4, and daughter Ivy, 2 with Ben — said she got both her birth bag and kids' bag packed, as well as the car seat ready to go. “My due date [July 17] is three days away, so it’s a little bit early, but I went five days late with my first two pregnancies, went a week and a half early last time, so you just never know.”
“[We] think we have a first name, we’re struggling with the middle name, we have about five or six different options, so we’ll see,” she added. “The first two kids were five days old before we settled on a name, which was a long time.”
The following day, at 4:04 p.m., Jessa said in a video update that she had been to the doctor that morning and everything looked “good,” so she was “chilling” and “playing some Go Fish” with her kids “to pass the time.”
She went on a walk and had a few contractions before everything “kind of died off again.” Then at 3:15 a.m. on Sunday, she said in another recorded update that she had been “having contractions about every 10 minutes for the past couple hours. And I can’t sleep.”
Jessa and Ben Seewald with sons Spurgeon and Henry and daughter Ivy.Jessa Duggar/instagram
Jessa (Duggar) Seewald and Ben Seewald.Jessa Duggar/Instagram
Hours later, at 3:26 p.m., Jessa and Ben were recorded walking through the halls of a hospital, where her contractions were three minutes apart.
source: people.com
