I do wonder why she bled out to the point of needing a transfusion. That WAS a big baby… did she tear? Did the uterus fail to contract? If so, I wonder if this complication will impact their future ability to have a large brood like mom and dad. Aren’t she and Ben the couple who say they want to adopt? Maybe they’ll see this is God’s way of telling them they’d better start working on that… not that I believe that, but they certainly would.
Were any of the Duggar midwives there?
Re the link in Post #1917:
The biblical language talks about sin and atonement after giving birth. Who sinned? What is he/she atoning for?
Odd that none of the articles reported who delivered the baby.
Do they ever talk about adopting US babies or special needs kids?
@VeryHappy – one Christian interpretation was that the pain of childbirth was to atone for Eve’s sin in the Garden of Eden, and thus pain relief during childbirth was immoral.
I would have said that went away a hundred or more years ago, but apparently not.
If you look at it in crude economic terms, adopting a healthy US baby is not solving any problem. There is plenty of demand for healthy US babies, so if you didn’t adopt that baby, someone else would. And (correct me if I’m wrong) there looks to be plenty of demand for healthy infants worldwide. The problem is finding parents for older kids and special needs kids, both in the US and around the world. God should tell them to adopt a special needs kid.
“@VeryHappy – one Christian interpretation was that the pain of childbirth was to atone for Eve’s sin in the Garden of Eden, and thus pain relief during childbirth was immoral.”
I think you meant “normal” not “immoral”.
I remember when I took birthing classes there was a fundamentalist mother who kept saying that she was just going to pray to Jesus and he would take away her labor pains"… she was very adamant about that. I kept wanting to ask if she’d ever read Genesis 3:16: “I’ll multiply your pains in childbirth; you’ll give birth to your babies in pain…”.
“I think that post-birth abstinence has something to do with Levitical teachings. But I thought the abstinence period was shorter after birthing a male baby. ??
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7 days for boys and 33 days for girls.
Oh, the things I remember from seminary…
@KKmama: I think arabrab meant “immoral.” Women were supposed to suffer during childbirth.
Watched the People magazine video from a couple pages back…and who is staying with Jessa and Ben at night so they can sleep??? Grandma Duggar (assuming JB’s mom) and…Jana!!! (of course!!!)
So that’s 40 days (7 + 33) for a boy and 80 days (14 + 66) for a girl.
^^^^The above quote brings rise to a new question.
Who performs the circumcision? Eeek.
Isn’t there a festival for when Mary was considered clean after birthing Jesus?
OK, I looked it up, Candlemas on February 2nd. Back then, you had to present your child at the temple and pay as well. So purification was a bit of a money making opportunity too.
Family visit with Josh Duggar?
First of all, the article spelled Milwaukee wrong - big bad no-no in my book, so they lose my respect. Also, I don’t know why, if they were in their private plane, they went to Milwaukee, which is well over an hour and a half away from Rockford, unless they really flew into some smaller private airport outside of Milwaukee, which could make the drive to Rockford a bit shorter. There is a perfectly good airport in Rockford. Of course, if they were trying to not draw attention to themselves, I can see flying into somewhere else and making the drive.
http://www.people.com/article/jessa-duggar-seewald-baby-spurgeon-elliot-seewald
Spurgeon - the Urban Dictionary meaning is colorful.
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Jessa, speaking to PEOPLE as the couple was still choosing a name, said she favored names “of heroes from the Christian faith.”
“We want to give him a strong name, with a lot of meaning,” Jessa explained.
**Added Ben: “He is going to have this name for the rest of his life.”
Sounds like sturgeon to me. DG used to fret over boy names that could lead to awful, taunting nicknames. Urban dictionary’s #3 def of “Spurge” surely isn’t what the prince an princess had in mind.
Spurgeon will become “Spur” very quickly, I surmise.