JOY-ANNA Duggar has sparked concern among some fans after sharing a new photo of her newborn son Gunner.
The Counting On star, 25, shared a new Instagram photo that showed her holding Gunner as he sat in her arms while wearing only a diaper.
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At the end of last month, Joy-Anna and her husband, Austin Forsyth, 29, welcomed their newborn son, Gunner.
The couple are also the parents of Gideon, five, and Evelyn, two.
The first photo of the new post showed the newborn looking up at the camera as the mom of three looked at him and smiled.
The two appeared to be waiting inside of a room at the doctor’s office.
“94% for weight and 100% for cuteness and still trying to figure out how to coordinate his eyes,” the reality star wrote in her caption.
While the photo was surely meant to show off Gunner’s cuteness, many concerned fans took to the comments section with their thoughts after noticing he appeared to be cross-eyed.
One follower wrote: “I would suggest a visit to the eye doctor for a screening for your little guy. Our son would have needed glasses at that age but we didn’t find out until he was 12 months old.”
“He looks like your dad and eye turning in?” a second asked.
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Others chimed in with their stories of their children having a similar situation at a young age and how they went to the doctor’s to correct it.
After one commenter told Joy-Anna that Gunner’s eyes would most likely correct on their own, another replied concerningly: “Sometimes they don’t correct.”
This isn’t the first time that fans have commented with their concerns over Joy-Anna’s newborn, as some were vocal about her previous post as well.
BABY BACKLASH
Joy-Anna recently shared an adorable photo of her with her new baby — but was slammed online for how she was holding the tot.
In the snap, she was seen holding her youngest child – who appeared to be wrapped in a light blanket – in what looked like a parking lot.
The ex-TLC personality was seen planting a kiss on her baby’s head.
Gunner appeared slightly distressed, with his eyes closed and a red face.
In a second photo, Joy-Anna looked into the camera and smiled.
Her baby, however, was crying.
The former 19 Kids and Counting star joked about the juxtaposition in her caption, writing: “So much love for you little man.
“Pic 2: apparently too much.”
A handful of critics noted that it appeared Joy-Anna was holding her son incorrectly.
On a Reddit thread featuring the photos, one hater wondered: “Why does it look like she’s holding him by squeezing his arms[?]”
Someone else replied: “Right? She looks like she’s shifting holding positions but she’s obviously posing for the picture so she probably wasn’t actually moving him.
“I’d be crying if someone held me that way for more than a couple seconds too.”
Someone else commented: “How is she holding him? No support from the bottom. With all of the babies she’s seen in her lifetime, you’d think she’d know how to hold one.”
Another comment read: “They both hold him up like that. It’s like they know how to hold him but they won’t.”
POSTPARTUM BLUES
Last week, the reality star uploaded a new video to YouTube that showed her answering a few fan questions just weeks after giving birth to Gunner.
The sit-down vlog, titled Life With A Brand New Baby (Postpartum Q&A), was full of questions about Joy-Anna’s life as a new mom of three.
Toward the end of the video, she showed one fan question that read: “Do you lose baby weight easily postpartum?”
In a vulnerable moment, the former TLC star opened up about her struggle to lose weight after giving birth.
“I do not lose postpartum weight easy at all,” she revealed.
“It is hard work for me. Nursing does not just help me drop weight I think it actually helps me hold onto weight.
“And so after every baby it’s always been a struggle to lose it, but, I feel my best when I do lose the weight.
“This time around I’ve just been eating healthier and I’ve noticed – I’ve been purposefully [been] eating high protein, low carb – and I’ve noticed that I’m dropping slowly,” she explained.
Joy-Anna said it took her about a year with her other two kids to get back to her pre-pregnancy weight and therefore is going to be easier on herself “this time around.”
The video also showed the Counting On star and her husband taking viewers into their home to show off their life with three children.
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