She should just get a zipper installed during her next c-section. Would make it a lot easier for everyone.
My mom has an uncle about 6 weeks older than her, which makes him a year younger than my aunt Pat. Grandma was the second-oldest of 9 who were spread out over about 20 years, and she got married when she was just barely 18–it wasn’t all that common even 60 years ago, but it was far from being so weird your teacher wouldn’t believe you when you told her about it.
There is NO. FUCKING. WAY. that you can convince me that any given kid out of NINETEEN gets all the love and attention he or she needs. If this sideshow is still in the news in another decade or two we’re going to be hearing about some very serious problems the kids are having.
Coming from French Catholic stock, I’d call that “a good start”.
Cisco said:
That’s what siblings are for.
And I don’t mean that facetiously. Standard practice is that older siblings do a lot of the minding of the younger sibs. Part of your duties are to look after the young snots.
Fuck that. My wife and I have one. We’ve decided to stop at two because we don’t think we can spread our love, attention, and money fairly among 3. I’m not saying others can’t juggle 4, 5, or 6, but 19 is outrageous. It’s completely out of line in modern society.
They are briefly exposed to other types of people because of the tv show, and for the most part the kids really are very polite and well behaved. But I don’t kid myself about the possibilities for their future. If one of those kids announced he or she was gay, or didn’t believe in Christianity, or even if one of the girls just wanted to go to college and have a career of her own instead of being married off at 21 and raising another child army…you can bet Ma and Pa Duggar would not too open-minded about it.
Good God, I’d think that the Duggars would try to prevent their kids from even knowing that something called “college” exists. Imagine, college tuition for 19 children.
I know that’s technically what they are but I haven’t them talk that way about themselves, or be particularly militant in that respect. I haven’t watched them religiously (heh) though.
I think someone else described it as throwing a hot dog down a hallway.
I wonder what labor would be like now? Jeez, I’m thinking one good sneeze late in her pregnancy would do it.
Considering that some women get incontinent due to far less than 19 vaginal labors, I’m wondering what one good sneeze will do when she’s not pregnant. Does the whole uterus come out, complete with fallopian tubes?
I’m not sure about the fallopian tubes, but my mom-in-law had a problem similar to what you describe. (I don’t have details. I didn’t ask for details. I don’t want details!) She had to have a minor surgery to correct it. And she only had 3 kids.
Someone on another message board I go to suggested that the new baby be named Juterus.
It’s like feeding a tic tac to a whale.
There’s your name for the kid: Jonah!
My greatest hope is that this kid will be obviously biracial.
Considering they will have 19 kids, those odds are looking pretty good!
We-ell…I thought I was just exaggerating. About the whole thing! :eek:
I find the comments about Michelle Duggar’s vagina really uncalled for.
BTW, there is no proven link between vaginal births and urinary incontinence (or between breast feeding and degree of breast sagging, while we’re on the subject of myths about natural body functions). There is a big link between urinary incontinence and pregnancy. It’s the hormones, not the means of delivery.
Their kids are loved and well-provided for. The whole family seems content and they all have beautiful manners. Obviously they are an unusual family with unusual beliefs, and yeah, that is a CRAZY amount of kids for one man and one woman to have.
There was a family with 28 children in the county where I grew up. It was a yours/mine/ours situation, though the mother, who seemed clearly deranged and almost retarded when interviewed, did indeed have about 20 kids biologically (and her husband had more from previous marriages). They were often on the news each year at Christmas time, but unlike the Duggers they lived in dire poverty- a small house covered in roofing material (fairly frequent in rural Alabama) and had to receive government aid and private charity to eat. There was actually a lot scorn for them after each human interest segment they did.
The Duggers of course are well to do, but if I’m not mistaken most of their money comes from a combo of their church, gifts, and the TV show. She’s currently 42 so she’s likely got a few “breedin’ years” ahead of her. If they ever lose the financial support of their church and their TV show I wonder if they have enough saved to make it. (Honestly if you had an income well into the six figures I don’t think it’d be possible to send them to college without assistance.)
One of the most touching eps of the show was when her 12, 10, 9, 8, 6, and 5 year olds made that statue of herin ceramics.
Sampiro - I don’t think they actually belong to a church. They have a prayer-meeting/service on Sundays in their house, with maybe one or two other families. I’ve heard them say they they make their living in rental properties. Although I’m sure TLC now provides them a good income. But before they were doing a regular series for TLC, it took them about 5 years to build their house, doing a lot of the labor themselves. They bought used restaurant equipment for the kitchen, that sort of thing.
I know way too much about these people.
StG