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[ND66]

Q: What is the longest combined time of one woman being pregnant in the US?

A: ………

[cjolley]

9/12 * 17 years?

[ND66]

Arkansas couple welcomes 17th child


It's a girl — again — for the Duggars. Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar welcomed their 17th child, and seventh daughter, into the world Thursday.

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.

Less than 30 minutes after giving birth, the Duggars already were talking of having more.

"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."

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.

The oldest is 19 and the youngest, before Jennifer, is almost 2 years old.

"We are just so grateful to God for another gift from him," said Jim Bob Duggar, 42, a former state representative. "We are just so thankful to him that everything went just very well."

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.

The family includes two sets of twins.

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.

Michelle Duggar said she started feeling contractions Wednesday night and went to the hospital at about 5 a.m. Thursday.

"It actually went fast," she said. "I guess once I started progressing, it went within 30 minutes."

Jennifer was born via a VBAC — or vaginal birth after Caesarean, Jim Bob Duggar said.

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.

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.___

On the Net:

Duggar family Web site: http://www.duggarfamily.com

Discovery Health site: http://health.discovery.com/converge...garfamily.html

[Dr Mordrid]

17

As in 17 KIDS

Link....

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- It's a girl -- again -- for Jim Bob and Michelle Duggars, the proud parents of 17 children.

And after Jennifer Danielle was born Thursday morning, her parents already were talking about having more children.

"We'd love to have more," Michelle Duggar said, adding that the girls are outnumbered seven to 10 in the family. "We love the ruffles and lace."

The family's home in the northwest Arkansas town of Tontitown includes dormitory-style bedrooms for the boys and girls, nine bathrooms, a commercial kitchen, four washing machines and four dryers.

The children are home-schooled by Michelle Duggar, 40. The oldest is 19 and the youngest, before Jennifer, is almost 2 years old. The family includes two sets of twins.

"We are just so grateful to God for another gift from him," said Jim Bob Duggar, 42, a former state representative who sells real estate. "We are just so thankful to him that everything went just very well."

All of Jennifer's siblings also have names that start with J. They are: 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.

The Duggars have been featured on several programs on cable's Discovery Health Network.

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 family has gone through about 90,000 diapers, and Michelle Duggar has been pregnant for 126 months -- or 10.5 years -- of her life.

[DC]

Respect !!!

[Brian Ellis]

We had one. That was enough!!!!!!

IMHO, stupid giving them all names with the same initial. Who opens the letter addressed to J. Duggar?

She has some way to go:

The greatest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the wife of Feodor Vassilyev, a peasant from Shuya, Russia. In a total of 27 confinements between 1725 and 1765, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of quadruplets (the greatest number of multiple births in one family). Only two of the children failed to survive their infancy. The world's most prolific living mother is believed to be Leontina Albina from San Antonio, Chile, who reproduced her 55th and last child in 1981. Her husband stated that they were married in Argentina in 1943 and had five sets of triplets (all boys) before moving to Chile.

The latter one has been discredited. I believe there are many cases of 30+ children in a single family.

[Mehen]

Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

there tv show is pretty neat to watch

[Brian Ellis]

Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

In which case God must get very angry gazillions of times per day, if you multiply 2 billion men of sperm-producing age by the 185 million average sperm count/ejaculate multiplied by 2/7 ejaculations over a week = roughly 1E17/day less 330,000 births/day representing non-wasted spermatazoa.

If you count an average spermatazoon to be 55 µm long (including the flagellum), 1E17 wasted/day put end-to-end would stretch 5½ million km or 7 times to the moon and back!

[Fat Tone]

OK Brian, if you can count sperm surely you are up for my programming challenge?

[Brian Ellis]

I possibly could but I'm too old to waste my brainpower. If I had to do that, I would do the programme in a Forth dialect.

[Gurm]

Abominations, seriously. Complete waste of air.

[Brian Ellis]

If you put all the cars in the UK bumper-to-bumper, one abomination would try to overtake the lot!

[Helevitia]

What I want to know is, who pays for that family? Do they have good days jobs or am I paying for them via tax dollars?

[rylan]

Well they are being home schooled at least... but still, a family that big just seems irresponsible.

Oh man, I just noticed that the guy's name is Jim Bob... way too easy to start up the hick jokes.