Michelle Duggar and Josiah Duggar help Lauren Duggar during labor
It's Duggar day! An all-new episode of Counting On airs tonight at 9pm ET/8pm CT on TLC. In addition to Lauren's long labor (link to video preview is below), Jinger and Jeremy Vuolo share some big news with the family via video chat.
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I thought the headline was telling us that Joy's baby was coming. No...just more OLD news and OLD footage of an OLD birth. Not going to watch that. Plus they've already shown that gingerbread house pregnancy reveal at least 2x.
ReplyDeleteThe first, and only, time, that I have seen, the gingerbread house pregnancy reveal, was during the August 11th episode, of Counting On. I thought this was a really cute way, for Jinger, and Jeremy, to announce their pregnancy, to the rest of the Duggars.
DeleteDidn't we already see this? I wish they would stop doing these "reruns".
ReplyDeleteAnonymous @9:27 Am. Their showing reruns since they couldn't type during the Covid.19.
DeleteI like watching reruns is fun to look back at what hapoens.
Why can't they labor in privacy? Why do they have to share this stuff with the world?
ReplyDeleteIt's how they make their living. You know, reality TV.
DeleteAnonymous @12:30pm. Sone people love watching them give birth. I'd you don't like it don't watch.
DeleteI love it.
Because lots of people love birth stories.
DeleteThey choose what to film, and you choose what to watch.
DeleteIt's so horrible they have to go through all that pain that can be easily avoided in this century!
ReplyDeleteShe tried epidurals, it didn't work..
DeleteIt's not that cut and dried. Some people don't want the side effects of meds.
DeleteIt's a choice for many.. I needed the meds since I had a C Section
DeleteMy Dad and I can't wait to watch tonight. We love watching counting on. We enjoy every season. We can't wait until season 12 hopefully coming in next couple months but we also try to write about every episode. Natasha b
ReplyDeleteI would want Michelle to help me with all my labor and deliveries. I wouldn’t find it annoying at all. Her high voice is very calming.
ReplyDeleteI know, but I don't think there's any way to keep her out of the labor and delivery action. I often wonder if she EVER stops talking.
DeleteThat high voice would have annoyed me to no end, and I would have kicked her out of the room!
DeleteThe last thing I'd need would be a mother-in-law watching me when I was in that position and giving birth...
Delete2:23, I have never seen a Duggar birth story where Michelle was constantly talking.
DeleteI would be way more concerned about the filming than the mother-in-law.
DeleteDo they switch to all-female camera crews for these births? Doesn't seem modest to have strangers there, but male strangers? Can't be.
Delete11:44 excellent question!
Delete@4:01-I’d have been mortified if my mother in law was in my delivery room!!!
DeleteMy husband was such a mamas boy and my mother in law was kind of like Michelle. I half expected her to be in the room giving instructions when we conceived!
DeleteJosiah was a great coach. Jumping all over the bed and helping Lauren. Michelle also was a great coach. I would want her to help me with all my deliveries. Her voice is very calming.
ReplyDeleteI thought we already saw Lauren’s labor.
ReplyDeleteThey already showed Lauren's delivery in a special last season, though now they probably added more Lauren's interviews. That was so painful to watch Lauren suffered during her delivery because she had back labor and epidural did not work. Some people are lucky and some people have just have long and painful labors. Jinger said she did not feel a thing, was able to sleep and was feeling great. It's almost like Duggars in Arkansas suffer.
ReplyDeleteJinger was actually in pain for a while. They decided on the epidural to make her relax so she could progress since she had stopped doing so. Luckily for her, her epidural actually worked.
DeleteThis is all stuff they've aired before.
ReplyDeleteExactly. Somehow I can't get "excited" about things that they publicized 9 months ago.
DeleteCONGRATULATIONS ❤👶
ReplyDeleteNot very excited about seeing Lauren's labor a second time. Once was enough!
ReplyDeleteBaby Bella is so cute! At first she looked just like her mama, now she looks like Josiah. I can't imagine after watching Lauren in labor that she will have a bunch of babies, but who knows🤷
ReplyDeleteLauren suffered because of the position of the baby, face up, so the baby's head was pressing on Lauren's spine. Those labors are very painful. Maybe next time she can have an easy delivery. Generally, in the last weeks before the delivery the baby can be turned once they do an ultrasound and see baby's position.
DeleteThese girls are so unprepared to give birth.
ReplyDeleteBut they have contraction timers on their phones! They have laundry baskets of snacks from the in-laws! They have clean houses (if you don't count the biscuit crumbs on the sofa)! Their husbands have been "electrocuted" to know what labor feels like! They have half the family and a full camera crew ready to come watch! How much more prepared do you need to be??
DeleteI don’t think everybody is ever prepared to give birth to their first child.
DeleteI didn't prepare one bit for childbirth. I didn't take Lamaze classes. I listened to my doctor's advice, and I trusted him and God. For pete's sake how much preparation must a woman do? Women have been having babies for thousands of years with no preparation.
DeleteHow would you prepare other than reading, talking about it, and taking a childbirth class?
DeleteYou can prepare all you want and still not be ready for what labor and delivery are actually like. It's something you don't truly understand until you've done it. Take the unrelenting pain of back labor. Lauren received a lot of criticism the first time her birth story was aired, from people who have never gone through back labor and had no understanding of why she was so miserable. Some things you just have to experience to understand.
DeletePreparing for pregnancy and labor I think means getting yourself in great physical shape prior to conception. Strengthen your upper thighs, laboring muscles, abs, lower and upper back(for holding your baby hours on end when he/she is fussy). Childbirth is a marathon of sorts and that’s why it critical that you’re in great physical shape to ensure an easy as possible labor/birth!!!
DeleteGood point, 3:34!
DeleteIt's quite immodest to show women in such a private situation. We all know what's happening to their private bodies during this process yet they trumpet how many centimeters they are and if they are effaced. It was getting me sick to see young girl after young girl on this show suffer and 'push the baby out' of their loins...IN LIVING COLOR....with a film crew present. Disrespectful of privacy and modesty. Also, Michelle, GET OUT OF THE DELIVERY ROOM. Why wasn't Lauren's mother there instead? Or maybe NO ONE'S MOTHER, just Josiah?
ReplyDeleteThe reason they film these births is because it sells. Many viewers like the drama. It's the same reason tabloid magazines sell at the supermarket checkout- it's hard to look away. The only difference is that TLC is tabloid TV brought to you in your living room. I agree with you that the birth scenes leave little to the imaginiation. Considering this family is so strict about modesty in other ways, it comes across as a double standard. Money is a very powerful incentive.
DeleteHave you all never seen all the birth shows on TLC? Those are what I would call leaving little to the imagination. Secondly, Lauren's mother was in the delivery room. Thirdly, it's Lauren' business who she wants in there with her.
Delete9:22 - Anna's second birth was as explicit as any of the birth shows filmed by TLC. Jessa's with Spurgeon as well because of angling.
DeleteI agree with 4:48 that they send mixed messages about modesty.
Lauren might not have wanted MichelLe in the
DeleteLabor and delivery room but was too timid to object. Lauren would not have wanted to be rude.
Why do the Bates & Duggar have such long, hard labors? Is it exaggerated for television?
ReplyDeleteExaggerated for television? 🤣
DeleteWell...I’m suspicious of all these long, drawn out labors😉
DeleteFirst births usually involve longer and harder labor than subsequent births. First babies usually take 12-24 hours of labor.
DeleteLauren's baby was posterior, which adds several hours and quite a bit of painful back labor which epidurals are useless for.
Also, I wouldn't be surprised if having a film crew there and being filmed literally makes labor slower and more painful. The natural progression of labor hormones depends on being in a dim, quiet, safe space with familiar, supportive people only. Bright lights, noise, anxiety, strangers, and hostility are known to stall labor and make it harder to cope with the pain.