JESSA Duggar has given birth to her fifth baby.
The Counting On star shared her happy news, along with the baby’s gender and first photo.
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Jessa, 31, took to Instagram to announce the arrival of the baby boy.
EMOTIONAL ARRIVAL
Jessa’s fifth child’s arrival was a bittersweet moment.
The baby boy was born almost exactly one year after she and husband Ben Seewald, 28, suffered a miscarriage.
The miscarriage occurred a few days before Christmas in 2022.
Earlier this month, Jessa described it as a “missed miscarriage” because she did not experience any of the typical signs of the tragedy.
She shared that 11 weeks into her pregnancy, her morning sickness was “amplified,” and she experienced some spotting.
At her scheduled ultrasound appointment, her doctor looked concerned, and that’s when she received the horrible news.
Jessa said: “Nothing could prepare me for the weight of those words at that moment.
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“I really was so hopeful because the spotting had stopped. I was in complete shock. I didn’t even have words.”
She continued: “I just immediately started crying and I was so grateful in that moment that I hadn’t gone to the appointment by myself, and Ben was there, and he put his arms around me.”
After being told her child had passed away three weeks before she found out she suffered a miscarriage, Jessa said: “It was crazy because my body didn’t acknowledge that.
“I didn’t have signs or symptoms that anything was wrong.”
BIG REVEAL
Jessa and Ben released a YouTube video in September announcing the pregnancy.
She started the video: “After a heartbreaking loss of our baby last year, just this past week we found out some wonderful news.”
The Counting On star then panned the camera to show a positive pregnancy test.
Jessa continued: “Our rainbow baby is on the way, and we could not be more excited.”
The video then flashed back to April 2023 when Jessa and Ben were able to get some time away from their kids for a romantic getaway.
Jessa and Ben have four other children: Spurgeon, seven, Henry, six, Ivy, three, and Fern, one.
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