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Duggars' First Grandchild to Be a Girl

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(June 14) -- NBC's 'Today' show began trumpeting early Monday morning that it had big news from the Duggar family, the Arkansas clan that includes 18 children. Were Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar about to announce that baby 19 was on the way?
Not quite. It turns out that the Duggars' first grandchild, the baby of their oldest child, Josh, and his wife, Anna, is going to be a girl. Josh and Anna, who wed in September 2008, announced they were expecting in April. Their baby is due in October.
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Anna Keller Duggar, who is about five months pregnant, said she has been "feeling great."
"We've been able to feel the baby move and kick, so that's been a lot of fun," Anna told 'Today' host Meredith Vieira.
The younger Duggars agreed to have Vieira tell them their baby's gender on air. She got the news from the couple's doctor, and then had a baker make a pink layer cake for the occasion. The Duggars learned the baby was a girl by slicing into the cake to see the layers.
The rest of the Duggar clan joined in from home via video link and cheered the news that the baby is a girl.
"We've been dreaming about having grandbabies," Michelle Duggar said. "We are thrilled for Josh and Anna. They're going to make great parents."
Josh Duggar and all his siblings have names that start with the letter J. Josh and Anna are considering using the letter M for their children's names.
The Duggar family's life is chronicled on the cable show '18 Kids and Counting' on TLC.
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Robinson37121

07:50 PMJun 16 2009

I just don't quite get the fascination the American public has with these families and multiple births. Obviously, these cable stations must be spending big money to come into these families homes and film them on a daily basis. I thought it was interesting to watch these shows but now they seem to be a dime a dozen; a new one coming out more and more. I saw an advertisement on the WE channel over the weekend about another show about sextuplets that will be aired this month, I believe. Give me a break, multiple births seem to be the norm rather than exception these days with IVF.

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Areanna26

11:27 AMJun 16 2009

The Duggars should have stopped having babies on the second one. And no normal woman is pregnant 9 mos. out of the year for 18 consecutive years. There are some serious mental problems with her. And to the godbots who have hissy fits because someone doesn't capitalize their imaginary sky fairy's name, get over it. Not everyone chooses to believe in your god or your lord, we choose reality. Notice I didn't capitalize reality.

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thekikesays

04:15 AMJun 16 2009

who cares,seriously

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JEBRAT618

12:28 AMJun 16 2009

LimeGreenSea 09:25 PMJun 16 2009 jesusvotesrepub 06:03 PMJun 15 2009 god never intended for socialism.........If a man will not work, he shall not eat" (2 Thess 3:10)<~~~~~Those that CAN work, but choose not to, do not deserve entitlement to welfare. Why should their laziness come out of our tax dollars?................................. Well everyone can do something even if its not in the usual way we think of as work. Volinteer etc.... take care of animals kids etc if you can do something to help yourself even so as not to weigh others down then your ahead of the game as well. God knows whos who and what we can an can not do. Hes more understanding then we are.Lime Green, how dare you use God's word to chastise and be too ignorant to capitalize the Lord's name! The time you use being judgemental would be better spent learning to spell.

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othxxbrucasxxfan

12:18 AMJun 16 2009

I can't say that I would have 18 kids, but I've watchd their show, and those kids, are possibly the most well mannered and well taken care of children I have ever seen. Unlike our youth today, the Duggar clan isn't worried about brand name clothes or cell phones or iPods or internet. We need more kids like this in the world.

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Star89712

11:59 PMJun 16 2009

there should be a limit of the amount of kids people can have based on certain things... they obviously have money to spend on 18 kids and seem to be doing a good job but looking at jon and kate and their kids makes me sad

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Bbrockp

11:28 PMJun 16 2009

Didn't they ever figure out what causes that?

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candygurl9517

10:08 PMJun 16 2009

WOW 18 kids? That's a lot of kids.

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LimeGreenSea

09:27 PMJun 16 2009

Well good for them. Not as many kids as I would like to have but hey to each his/her own.

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LimeGreenSea

09:25 PMJun 16 2009

jesusvotesrepub 06:03 PMJun 15 2009 god never intended for socialism.........If a man will not work, he shall not eat" (2 Thess 3:10)<~~~~~Those that CAN work, but choose not to, do not deserve entitlement to welfare. Why should their laziness come out of our tax dollars?................................. Well everyone can do something even if its not in the usual way we think of as work. Volinteer etc.... take care of animals kids etc if you can do something to help yourself even so as not to weigh others down then your ahead of the game as well. God knows whos who and what we can an can not do. Hes more understanding then we are.

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Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar\'s first grandchild, due in October, is going to be a girl. The announcement came on NBC\'s \'Today\' show. Anna and Josh Duggar announced in April that they were expecting their first child.