Jessa Duggar gives birth to baby number six with mom Michelle by her side

Daily Mail​

4 days ago

has welcomed a new baby into her family and her mother Michelle was by her side for the delivery.
The reality star, 32, revealed in March that she and husband Ben Seewald were expecting their sixth child. The couple are parents to Spurgeon, nine, Henry, eight, Fern, five, Ivy, three and George, 18 months.
On Saturday, she revealed via her YouTube vlog that she had given birth in an episode titled Birth Story: Baby #6 (part 1.)
She began the video, filmed on July 24, by revealing 'Tomorrow is my due date. I had a visit with my OB a few days ago. I was dilated to 2 [centimeters and was] 50 percent effaced, and I lost my mucus plug a few days ago,' she said.
'Other than that, [I] haven't had any signs of labor. So, just waiting it out.'
Jessa said she had tried curb walking to jumpstart labor. It's a technique in which the expectant mom walks with one foot on the curb and the other on the street to try to get the baby into a favorable position for birth.
'I gave it a try, [but] I haven't noticed much of a change or anything like that,' she told the camera.
'I'm still having Braxton Hicks contractions, and such. For me, my history has been that when I go into labor, I always feel contractions heavily in my back. I haven't had any of those real contractions at this point. So, waiting it out.'
Toward the end of the video, which promoted part two of the story, the expectant mom was seen walking up and down the stairs of her mother Michelle's house to get things moving along.
'So, I'm having contractions every three to five minutes,' she said, as she leaned against a counter.
She was next seen lying on a brown sofa with a white towel between her legs. Someone in the background is asking 'What happened?' 'My water just broke,' she explained.
At the end, of the clip, Michelle can be seen by her daughter's side as she works through labor at the hospital. Fans will have to wait for part two to learn more about the baby's name and gender.
Michelle, 58, shares 19 children with her husband Jim Bob, 60. The family rose to fame in the TLC reality show 17 Kids and Counting, which became 19 Kids and then Counting On, with Jessa at the helm, as the kids began to get married and have children of their own.
The family adhered to the controversial and strict teachings of Institute in Basic Life Principles, formerly led by Bill Gothard.
She was next seen lying on a brown sofa with a white towel between her legs. Someone in the background is asking 'What happened?' 'My water just broke,' she explained
Gothard was removed after more than 30 women accused him of sexual harassment, which was covered in the documentary series Shiny Happy People, featuring Jill Duggar, 34, and her husband, Derrick Dillard.
Jill, Jessa have come forward as victims of sexual abuse by their brother Josh, 37, who is currently serving a 12-year-prison sentence in Dallas for possession of child pornography.
In her memoir, Counting the Cost, she wrote on an interaction with her dad in which she told him, 'You treat me worse than you treat my pedophile brother.'
In an Instagram Q&A in November 2024, Jill described their relationship as 'complicated,' adding, 'I feel like we are in a rebuilding phase now, with healthy boundaries still in place.'