<h1> Arkansas couple welcomes 17th child</h1> LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - It's a girl — again — for the Duggars. <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial">Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar</span> welcomed their 17th child, and seventh daughter, into the world Thursday. </p> Jennifer Danielle was born at 10:01 a.m. at Saint Mary's Hospital in Rogers, Ark., the Duggars said in an interview. Jennifer weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces and arrived five days after Michelle's due date.</p> Less than 30 minutes after giving birth, the Duggars already were talking of having more.</p> "We'd love to have more," Michelle said, adding that the girls are outnumbered seven to 10 in the family. "We love the ruffles and lace."</p> Jennifer joins the fast-growing Duggar brood, who live in Tontitown in a 7,000-square-foot home. All the children — whose names start with the letter J — are home-schooled.</p> The oldest is 19 and the youngest, before Jennifer, is almost 2 years old.</p> "We are just so grateful to God for another gift from him," said <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer">Jim Bob Duggar</span>, 42, a former state representative. "We are just so thankful to him that everything went just very well."</p> Jennifer joins siblings 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.</p> The family includes two sets of twins.</p> Michelle Duggar said that Joshua, Janna, Jill and Jessa were at the hospital, but that the rest of the family planned to visit their new sister later Thursday.</p> Michelle Duggar said she started feeling contractions Wednesday night and went to the hospital at about 5 a.m. Thursday.</p> "It actually went fast," she said. "I guess once I started progressing, it went within 30 minutes."</p> Jennifer was born via a VBAC — or vaginal birth after Caesarean, Jim Bob Duggar said.</p> The Duggars have been featured on several programs on cable's Discovery Health Network. The next special, the Duggar Family Album, is scheduled to air next month, Jim Bob Duggar said.</p> 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 Duggars have gone through an estimated 90,000 diapers, and Michelle, 40, has been pregnant for 126 months — or 10.5 years — of her life.</p> </p> </p> Wow. lol, thats a lot of kids to raise. Now say they were living in Germany the parents would get about 5000 euros (close to $6800). (about 300 for a child), it's like support until they become 18.</p> How can she do it. Strong woman. </p> </p> </p>
