Jessa Duggar and husband Ben Seewald maintain relying on as their household will get somewhat larger.
“After a heartbreaking loss final yr, we’re so grateful God has blessed us with a rainbow child,” Duggar, 30, wrote by way of her Instagram Story on Saturday, September 9, confirming that she is pregnant.
The Counting On alum included a hyperlink to her household’s YouTube channel, the place she uploaded a video additional detailing the information.
“Simply this previous week we came upon some fantastic information that our rainbow child is on the way in which,” Duggar, one of many daughters of Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar, mentioned within the Saturday video. “We couldn’t be extra excited.”
In her video, the 19 Youngsters and Counting alum revealed her constructive being pregnant check earlier than documenting her seashore getaway with Seewald, 28.
Jessa — who married Seewald in 2014 — introduced in February that she suffered a miscarriage.
“Nothing may’ve ready me for the burden of these phrases at that second,” she mentioned in a YouTube video on the time of studying that she was experiencing a being pregnant loss and wanted to endure a D&C process. “Proper as they have been wheeling me again [to the operating room], I simply needed to ask, like, ‘Simply, can I please have another ultrasound? Please, anyone verify, be certain that.’ I used to be having all these fears that possibly they bought one thing improper. … It’s irrational, however you simply really feel scared.”
She continued on the time: “While you lose somebody so pricey to you, it does make heaven that a lot sweeter. We talked about that with the children. We are able to’t wait to fulfill this infant in heaven someday.”
Jessa and Seewald share sons Spurgeon, 7, and Henry, 6, and daughters Ivy, 3, and Fern, 2. Fern was additionally a rainbow child as Jessa had beforehand skilled a miscarriage previous to her being pregnant along with her youngest daughter.
Jessa has lengthy been candid about how her world shifted since first turning into a mother after Spurgeon’s arrival in 2015.
“I feel there have been so many issues that I felt like, ‘I completely understand how to do that. I’ve been round youngsters,’ however then when it’s your individual child, it’s completely totally different,” she solely instructed Us Weekly in July 2020, referring to her 18 siblings. “For one, it’s your duty, it’s not like, ‘Right here, Mother, the child stinks, change the diaper.’ Waking up within the night time, I feel that was in all probability one of many hugest changes for me. Feeling that duty of checking on their fever and ensuring they’re OK. Like, when do I do know to go to the physician?”
Jessa added on the time: “I’m always going to mothers who’re a season forward of me, like my very own mother, and saying, ‘Hey, do you might have a child with this persona?’ Or ‘Have you ever handled this problem earlier than?’ Or ‘How do you retain your cool?’ That’s one thing I all the time ask my mother if I really feel like I’m getting annoyed over little issues. I’m completely simply in awe of my mother’s endurance, for certain.”