Well, it look’s like it won’t be 20 Kids & Counting anytime soon. 
Mrs Duggar had a miscarriage in her 2nd trimester. While this is sad and I do sympathize with the family; let’s face it, they should be gratefull she herself isn’t dead. She’s 45; has given birth to 18 health children already, 1 severely premature baby who may have profund developmental problems throughout her life, and this is only her 2nd miscarriage. Of course she’ll probally get pregnant again within a year unless menapause set’s in before that. :smack:
Well, as foolish as it was for Mrs. Duggar to get pregnant again I’m sorry for her loss, and I’m glad she didn’t die with the child.
Color me shocked. :rolleyes:
Likewise. And I’d like to hope she realizes this, and the possible loss of her to her current 19 isn’t worth her robotic obeisance to this random ultra-breeding philosophy she’s latched on to. But I’m betting not.
While I am sorry for her loss, I hope she takes this as a lesson that her internal organs have had enough of this “constantly pregnant” crap.
She’ll keep this up until it kills her. How she (or her husband) see this as a good thing is beyond my understanding.
Cap’n, she canna take it no more!
Many women miscarry and they don’t have 18 children. Do you tell them to stop trying? Many women had 18+ children not too long ago and humanity went on just fine.
I’m sorry for her pain, but I’m not sure this is the place to make fun of it (even if we all wish she’d stop having kids).
Any idea on how far along she was?
She was due in April.
I’ll reserve my sympathy for people with real problems. After she was hospitalized and whelped months too early the last time she dropped a child-slave, she needs to grow the hell up and get her tubes tied already. I feel sorry for her uterus and her innocent existing kids but not for her.
So this would be at the threshold of a miscarriage and a stillbirth.
I wish her well (in the slactivistic sense of well wishing) but I really hope she realizes it’s time to call it quits. That last child is going to need all the care she can give all by itself, besides which she has more than a few others to take care of (she has at least 5 who will be with her for another decade or more, and that’s more than enough to keep most stay-at-home-moms busy) and her oldest kids have already started leaving to start their own lives and won’t be able to help as much. Her odds of having a Down Syndrome child are 1:25 and getting higher every year. There are just way too many ways her continuing to conceive can end very badly.
It’s no longer a uterus. It became a vending machine some time ago.
The problem about her “calling it quits” is that they are members of the Quiverful movement, who put all control of their reproduction in the hands of God. So, if they follow the movement’s theology, she will not get her tubes tied, he will not get a vasectomy, and whatever happens next will happen.
I have complicated feelings about this family. On the one hand, obviously they should be allowed to practice their faith and their family decisions without intervention. If those practices result in the death of the mother in childbirth, or the death of other children, there’s not much anyone can do. On the other hand, I’m not convinced that the older children are getting a good upbringing in terms of being able to become their own persons. I think using older children as substitute parents for still-living parents who simply want to continuously reproduce is not healthy.
But as far as I can see/tell/understand, there’s no neglect or active abuse, so I feel uncomfortable stating that she shouldn’t be “allowed” or “encouraged” to continue.
Not that anyone here is advocating forcefully stopping her procreation or anything.
I hate kids as much as the next guy, but I would never EVER wish a miscarriage on anyone.
I echo this sentiment.
Of course she should be allowed. She should not be encouraged. However, as others have said, it’s obvious that this has essentially become her identity. I think she will keep becoming pregnant until she’s no longer physically able to continue, and I also think that the results are going to become increasingly disastrous.
Yeah. I’d never, ever tell another woman what to do with her reproductive system, but I sure as shit wouldn’t tell her to keep on trying for another baby, either.
I’m sorry for her loss, but I hope she listens to her body and calls it quits before it becomes too dangerous for her to reproduce anymore. Frankly, it already has.
Damn, talk about a bad omen. Perhaps God is trying to tell you something, Michelle?
Seriously, though, that’s awful – for the entire family. But…perhaps in this case it’s for the best. Little Josie probably needs most of their attention right now, more than they need another kid.
(Is there such a thing as a “child hoarder”? Because I think this goes beyond “Quiverfull”)
You guys are nicer than I am. I have no sympathy for them. They’ve pretty much been begging for this kind of thing to happen.
Actually, I don’t think that that many women DID have that many kids. A dozen or so, certainly. But even if a woman had six or seven kids, that was considered a big family…and usually one or more of a half dozen kids would die, or she’d have a couple of miscarriages. And a lot of women died in childbirth, until relatively very recently.
If she was a member of this board, it would be inappropriate to make jokes about her. But she’s not, at least not to my knowledge, and she and her husband have put themselves out there as public figures, so they get ragged on in public.