'18 Kids & Counting' Mom Michelle Duggar Hospitalized In Arkansas

[The Straight Story]

'18 Kids & Counting' Mom Michelle Duggar Hospitalized In Arkansas

Story photo: '18 Kids & Counting' Mom Michelle Duggar Hospitalized In ArkansasThe Duggars from TLC's '18 & Counting'TLCAccess Hollywood

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Michelle Duggar - matriarch of the Duggar family from TLC's "18 Kids and Counting" - was hospitalized in Arkansas over the weekend, according to People.

The 42-year-old reality mom - who is pregnant with her 19th child - was reportedly rushed to the E.R. due to a gallbladder problem.

"This weekend, Michelle Duggar was admitted to an Arkansas hospital due to gallbladder issues," a rep for TLC told People. "The pain from a gallstone was generating some contractions. Just to be safe, she was airlifted a Little Rock, Ark., hospital, so that in the unlikely event that she had to be delivered early, she would be close to a NICU center."

Although Michelle remains hospitalized, the network spokesperson said both mom and baby are doing fine.

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/18-kids-counting-mom-michelle-duggar-hospitalized-in-arkansas/32292?nc

[Thickasabrick]

1. Clown car nt

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. what did thumper say? "if you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything at all"

[givemebackmycountry]

3. Jesus Christ, this woman is like the queen in the "Aliens" movie....

She just squeezing' em out... I swear.

Her freaking husband is busier than Tiger Woods.

[leftstreet]

5. ROFL

:spray:

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Full quiver movement

and they are dangerous. I hate that TLC is even giving them air time to be honest.

That said, best of health for both mom and baby...

[me b zola]

24. TLC has become obsessed with women reproducing

And when their shows are not about expecting a baby or women who intentionally give birth to their own ball team, they do shows on pageants and other creepy things. It's like the station for creepy rw stereotypes of women and girls. :puke:

[katanalori]

26. yep

Extreme Motherhood
Understanding Quiverfull, the antifeminist, conservative Christian movement that motivates popular reality-TV families like the Duggars.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/189763

[Kerrytravelers]

4. For the sake of all her children who need her, and her family, I hope she is well.

I wonder if the number of pregnancies has anything to do with the gallstones. I have no idea, as I am not a doctor nor a birth mother. And even if it did, people who are part of the Quiver movement will not be deterred. They will see it as a sacrifice of their body for the Lord.

[hlthe2b]

9. Siblings raising siblings..... After the first 8 or so, she largely ceases

to function as anything but a biologic "mother" to most of these kids. Their older sisters are likely to be more of a functional "mother" than this woman to most of the kids. Sorry, but I find this movement to be selfish, irresponsible, and ridiculous.

[Kerrytravelers]

16. I completely agree. I find the Quiver Movement offensive.

It's her body, but it's our planet. That's my opinion. I don't hate kids. I'm an Educator. But I think using one's vagina as a clown car is... what's the word... irresponsible in today's age. These children aren't working on the family farm, like my grandmother did.

Well, regardless of how I feel about her personal choices, and I respect her right to do with her body as she pleases although she wouldn't extend that right to me should I choose to terminate, I do hope she is well.

[hlthe2b]

6. No longer reproductive choice, but merely obscene...

and disgusting... The woman is a reproductive freak show, IMHO. That said, I hope she recovers fully.

[TicketyBoo]

8. If you're pro-choice,

then this is part of that. Her choice.

Not my choice, but more power to her.

I do know a family with 11 kids, most of them now grown.

[hlthe2b]

18. I disagree.... Her irresponsible choice affects many...

They are leaching on society to $$ support these kids, who will be largely left to be raised by older siblings. A dozen kids in rural areas has never been unusual, but we are talking 18 with a 19th on the way. No, this is NOT a pro-choice poster child.

[Kerrytravelers]

19. You are correct, that is why there are no limits legally on the number of children one can have

naturally. Although women like her do not extend the same freedoms in reproductive choices to everyone else.

[TicketyBoo]

21. Women like her don't have to extend that freedom.

The law allows reproductive choice.

[Kerrytravelers]

27. Yes, I know the law does. And those in the Quiver Movement would like to see that law overturned.

I wasn't referring to the legal realities, but the general hypocrisy of women in the Quiver Movement.

[arcadian]

30. I'd never heard of the Quiver Movement.

Had to look it up. You learn something new everyday.

[Kerrytravelers]

31. Frightening, huh?

:scared:

I respect their privacy and their right to use their bodies in the way they see fit. However, I wish their earthly responsibility was as important to them as their heavenly one seems to be.

[arcadian]

10. Mathematically how many children could a woman have in a life time?

Starting at the age when a healthy woman starts ovulating to menopause and maximized to have children during that entire time. One after the other. How many kids does that work out to?

[The Straight Story]

12. well, assuming only having one at a time

I would say 1.2/year starting at 15 up until 50... lot of kids...

[niceypoo]

15. My grandma had 13 brothers

She was the oldest AND the only girl. Families this size used to be common way back when.

[MissB]

17. So far, at least 19.

One would think that ones uterus would simply fall out at some point.

[LeftyMom]

23. It depends a lot on child-rearing practices.

In traditional societies without access to pharmaceutical birth control methods, there's generally a combination of an emphasis on exclusive breastfeeding (which acts to delay ovulation) and delayed resumption of sexual activity in order to space children. If there's no emphasis on frequent, exclusive breastfeeding than ovulation resumes sooner and spacing of children narrows quite a bit.

[Zomby Woof]

28. You mentioned breastfeeding

Flames and tears cannot be far behind.


:hide:

[Hawkeye-X]

11. Damn, you beat my LBN post :P

I don't mind if it gets merged :)

[The Straight Story]

13. Nah, I think they keep them separate (the forums) (nt)

[LibDemAlways]

14. Watching the show, I get the distinct impression that Michelle

enjoys being pregnant and having babies, but she's not particularly a warm and fuzzy mom type. She leaves that up to her older girls who care for the little ones. She breastfeeds her youngest, but that's about as much mothering as is ever shown.

That said, having seen my mother very ill with gallbladder issues, I wish Michelle all the best. Gallbladder pain is killer.

[nini]

25. She's like Octomom..just has them one at a time

there is something very odd about people with the need to have that many kids.

I know it's her 'choice' but I don't think at some point having that many kids in the age of birth control, overpopulation etc.. points to some kind of personality 'issue'.

[Odin2005]

20. Freak show.

:puke:

[Ruby the Liberal]

22. May they talk her into a tubal while she is in there...

Every time I hear the name 'Duggan' all I can think of is those poor children being raised by their siblings and the siblings who have lost their childhood raising their siblings.

Flame away. I think it is child abuse. No parent can dedicate precious development time when they are busy with 100,000 loads of laundry a week.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. Large families like that used to be a principal source of nuns

The older girls would see their mother pregnant every year or two, perhaps dying in childbirth, and they would decide, after ten years or so of raising their younger siblings, that they didn't need all that.

Unfortunately, there aren't any fundamentalist convents. The older Duggar girls might decide to start one.