Jessa Duggar, 30, pays tribute to her unborn ‘rainbow baby’ as she opens up about ‘worries’ she’s faced after getting pregnant with her fifth child just one year after a miscarriage
Jessa Duggar shared an exciting update on her latest pregnancy, posting a photo of her latest ultrasound on social media and revealing her joy at the prospect of welcoming another addition to her brood.
The 30-year-old, who suffered a devastating miscarriage in late 2022, announced earlier this month that she and her husband Ben Seewald are expecting another child – and she has now opened up about the ‘concerns’ she faced over her latest pregnancy . pregnancy after such a heartbreaking loss.
“Every heartbeat you hear, every ultrasound you see, every appointment with a good report… the worries fade a little more,” she wrote alongside a photo of herself with the latest scans of her unborn baby.
“God has blessed us beyond measure, and YOU ARE SO, SO LOVED, my little one. #rainbowbaby.”
Jessa Duggar shared an exciting update on her fifth pregnancy, posting a photo of an ultrasound on Instagram on Monday
Jessa and Ben Seewald (pictured) revealed they had suffered a miscarriage before the holidays last year and shared the news in a YouTube video in February
Excited fans flocked to the post and congratulated the couple. Well-wishers included Jessa’s sister Jill Duggar Dillard, who celebrated in the comments, writing, “Aww!! So happy for you all!”
The update comes a year after Jessa suffered a devastating miscarriage.
The 30-year-old shared her loss in February in a nearly 19-minute YouTube video titled Heartbreak Over the Holidays, documenting her pregnancy journey as well as the aftermath of the news that she had suffered a miscarriage.
In the video, she said the pregnancy went well overall, but she felt “very sick” and had “some bleeding.”
“It seems a little concerning,” she said, adding that she had scheduled an ultrasound the next day to “see how everything goes.”
Jessa remembers the moment she learned of the miscarriage, when her sonographer told her, “The sac looks good. Not the baby.”
“Nothing could have prepared me for the weight of those words in that moment,” she admitted, adding, “At that moment I was just in complete shock. I had no words. I just started crying straight away.”
She recalled that the technician left the room while she and Ben were “trying to come to terms with the loss (as they sat there and held hands and cried).”
Due to the risk of complications, Jessa went to a hospital and underwent a dilation and curettage procedure.
She recalled the heartbreaking moments leading up to it: “Just as they wheeled me back (to the operating room), I just wanted to ask, ‘Can I please have one more ultrasound? definitely,” she said.
In a nearly 19-minute YouTube video, Jessa documented her pregnancy journey and the aftermath of their loss, admitting ‘nothing could have prepared me for the weight of those words in that moment’
The couple, who married in 2014, have four children together and are now pregnant with their fifth. Last month, she shared the exciting news with her more than three million Instagram followers.
The 19 Kids And Counting alum, 30, gushed in an Instagram Story that she is “so grateful that God blessed us with a rainbow baby.”
Jessa shares sons Spurgeon, seven, and Henry, six, and daughters Ivy, four, and Fern, two, with Ben
Jessa rose to fame alongside her siblings on the TLC shows 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On, which have since been canceled
However, a year later she was able to share happier news.
“After a heartbreaking loss last year, we are so grateful that God blessed us with a rainbow baby,” she wrote on her Instagram Story at the time.
“This past week we heard the wonderful news that our rainbow baby is on the way and we couldn’t be happier,” she told viewers in the YouTube video, titled A Baby on the Way & Romantic Getaway! ‘We are so grateful for the gift of this precious life’
Jessa shares sons Spurgeon, seven, and Henry, six, and daughters Ivy, four, and Fern, two, with Ben, 27, who she married in November 2014.
She previously suffered a miscarriage in 2020 before becoming pregnant with Fern.
Jessa previously chose to welcome her fourth child in hospital, unlike her past three pregnancies, which were all home births – two of which ultimately sent her to hospital by ambulance.
She had given birth to Spurgeon, Henry and Ivy at home, but suffered dangerous bleeding twice, causing her to be rushed to hospital immediately after delivery.
All of the mother of four’s home births were caught on camera for the family’s TLC series Counting On, which has since been canceled.