Exciting news from Jessa Duggar and Ben Seewald! Just a couple of days before Christmas 2023, the couple welcomed their fifth child, a boy.
In a series of Instagram posts, Duggar shared the incredible news. “The baby is here and we couldn’t be more grateful!” she wrote in the first post, which featured her and her little one.
He also announced the little one’s name, which is George Augustine Seewald. He was born on December 19 and weighed 9 pounds, 14 ounces and 21 inches.
In a YouTube video, Jessa Duggar detailed George’s birth. She revealed that after laboring for approximately 12 hours, she was moved from an emergency room bed to the delivery room. She was able to receive an epidural shortly after. “And it worked really well on one side and it was kind of spotty on the other side. It wasn’t a perfect shot, but she would say 80 percent better than she was before she got it.”
When his doctor told him that George was “pretty high,” he decided to “turn off” the epidural. She then followed her midwife’s advice to adopt various positions to try to rotate the baby. After the baby descended and she began to feel more contractions, she had her doctors give her the epidural again.
“The sweetest moment [was] when they picked up the baby and put it on me,” said Jessa Duggar. “Just holding him there, I think there were so many emotions in that moment. [and] so many things you are processing. “It’s been a year since we lost our last baby and it’s an avalanche of emotions.”
Duggar was at the hospital with Seewald and his mother Michelle. Duggar and Seewald are parents to four other children, Spurgeon, Henry, Ivy and Fern.
Jessa Duggar revealed earlier this year that she suffered a miscarriage
George’s birth comes less than a year after Jessa Duggar broke the devastating news that she had suffered a miscarriage.
In an emotional video on YouTube, Duggar explained that an ultrasound technician told her that while the sac looked fine, the baby did not. “Nothing could have prepared me for the weight of those words at that moment,” Jessa recalled. She later recalled that she immediately started crying upon hearing the news.
The technician left the room as Jessa Duggar and her husband began to process the loss. They sat holding hands and crying. She then talked about the process of undergoing a D&C procedure.
“Just when they were taking me back [to the operating room], I just wanted to ask something like, ‘Can I have one more ultrasound please?’ Please someone check, make sure,’” she explained. “I had all these fears that maybe they were wrong about something. … You know it’s irrational, but you just feel afraid.”
While speaking about the devastating experience, Jessa Duggar cried and said she had an “empty feeling” inside. “The life that was in you is no longer there and you never got to see your baby or say goodbye to him,” she added.
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