Arkansas Couple Welcome Their 17th Child, A Girl

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) _ It's a girl _ again _ for Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, the proud parents of 17 children. <br/><br/>And after Jennifer Danielle was born Thursday morning, her parents already

Friday, August 3rd 2007, 2:27 pm

By: News On 6

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) _ It's a girl _ again _ for Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, the proud parents of 17 children.

And after Jennifer Danielle was born Thursday morning, her parents already were talking about having more children.

``We'd love to have more,'' Michelle Duggar said, adding that the girls are outnumbered seven to 10 in the family. ``We love the ruffles and lace.''

The family's home in the northwest Arkansas town of Tontitown includes dormitory-style bedrooms for the boys and girls, nine bathrooms, a commercial kitchen, four washing machines and four dryers.

The children are home-schooled by Michelle Duggar, 40. The oldest is 19 and the youngest, before Jennifer, is almost 2 years old. The family includes two sets of twins.

``We are just so grateful to God for another gift from him,'' said Jim Bob Duggar, 42, a former state representative who sells real estate. ``We are just so thankful to him that everything went just very well.''

All of Jennifer's siblings also have names that start with J. They are: Joshua, 19; John David, 17; Janna, 17; Jill, 16; Jessa, 14; Jinger, 13; Joseph, 12; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 9; Jedidiah, 8; Jeremiah, 8; Jason 7; James 6; Justin, 4; Jackson, 3; Johannah, almost 2.

The Duggars have been featured on several programs on cable's Discovery Health Network.

Among the ``fun facts'' listed on Discovery Health's Web page devoted to the Duggars: A baby has been born in every month except June; the family has gone through about 90,000 diapers, and Michelle Duggar has been pregnant for 126 months _ or 10.5 years _ of her life.

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