Party of seven!
Jessa Duggar revealed Saturday she gave birth to her and husband Ben Seewald’s rainbow baby — their fifth child together — after suffering a miscarriage last year.
“Baby is here and we couldn’t be more grateful!” she wrote on Instagram alongside a sweet photo of her lying in a hospital bed while cradling her little one.
Duggar also directed people to their YouTube channel, where she documented the week leading up to giving birth.
In a video titled, “Birth Story — Baby Seewald #5!,” she revealed she was in labor for 12 hours before getting checked into her birthing room.
After getting her epidural, the reality star said she thought things “were moving along just fine” but the doctor informed her the baby “was still pretty high” and “not in an ideal position.”
From there, Duggar called in her midwife, who helped position her into “a bunch of different laboring positions to help rotate the baby,” which she estimated was a three to four-hour process.
“When I got to the point where I could tell the baby was descending, the contractions felt more intense, I was like, ‘I need the epidural turned back on, please,'” she further explained in the video, which included pictures and video from her time in labor.
“We turned the epidural back on,” Duggar continued. “The one leg was working great. The other side, just, I could feel everything.”
When her 9-pound, 14-ounce bundle of joy finally arrived, she had been in labor for 21 hours.
The video showed the new mom of five breaking down in tears as her baby was brought into her arms.
The 31-year-old experienced another pregnancy loss two years later while trying to expand their family.
“Miscarriages can be so jarring because you don’t have clear signs of something going wrong,” she said in a February 2023 YouTube video.
“Nothing could have prepared me for the weight of [the loss],” Duggar continued, adding that she was “in complete shock” over the news and “immediately started crying.”
By September of that same year, the duo had a rainbow baby on the way.
“After a heartbreaking loss last year, we’re so thankful God has blessed us with a rainbow baby!” the former TLC personality wrote via Instagram Stories at the time.
Her “worries [began] to fade a little bit more” in October 2023 as the pregnancy continued with “every heartbeat heard, every ultrasound seen [and] every appointment with a good report.”
Showing one of the sonogram shots in question via Instagram, Duggar gushed, “God has blessed us beyond measure, and YOU ARE SO, SO LOVED, my little one.”
The “19 Kids and Counting” alum continued documenting her baby bump progress on the social media app before baby No. 5’s birth.
She and Seewald, 28, have been together since their courtship kicked off in 2013.
