LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar say their new babyNo. 19 — is doing well, even though she was born more than three months early and weighed less than 2 pounds at birth.
The couple from northwest Arkansas says 7-week-old Josie Brooklyn is “growing and getting stronger each day.” The Duggars and their children are featured on TLC’s newly renamed reality show “19 Kids & Counting,” which will showcase Josie’s birth on a special episode Sunday night.
Doctors say Josie was born Dec. 10 in Little Rock after Michelle Duggar had an emergency cesarean section because she had developed pre- eclampsia. The baby had been due March 18. The Duggars’ children range in age from 21-year-old Josh to infant Josie, along with a granddaughter, Mackynzie, who was born in October. The Associated Press
