The 19th child of Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar has already faced many challenges in her young life. However, her rocky road appears to have been paved smooth again, as mom Michelle told Meredith Vieira on the Today Show that the family’s new addition is doing, “remarkable.”
Now 8 months old, Josie was born at just 25 weeks after Michelle was diagnosed with preeclampsia – a rare condition during pregnancy that causes high blood pressure. Josie arrived weighing only 1 lb., 6 oz., and her bowel perforated eight days later, the Duggers told People Magazine.
This morning, the family gathered for an interview with the Today Show to tell a different story – Josie is out of the hospital and healthy, having gained 10 lbs since her birth.
Watch the interview below:
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Michelle is also doing much better after the birth, and amazingly would still consider having yet another baby! “We’ll just wait and see what God has in store,” the mother of 19 told Vieira, “When we look at Josie… how we went through the challenge we did, we would do it again.”
