TLC reality alum Jessa Duggar Seewald has announced that she is pregnant with her fifth baby, less than a year after sharing a heartbreaking miscarriage with the public.
Seewald and her husband, Ben, announced the pregnancy in September on their Instagram Stories and in a YouTube video. “After a heartbreaking loss of our baby last year, just this past week, we found out some wonderful news that our rainbow baby is on the way and we could not be more excited,” the couple wrote.
In December of 2022, Seewald was approaching the end of her first trimester when she began bleeding; after an ultrasound, it was confirmed that her preborn child had died. “At that moment I was just in complete shock,” she said in February. “I didn’t have words. I just immediately started crying.”
Seewald had to undergo a dilation and curettage (D&C) to remove the remains of her deceased child, roughly three weeks after her preborn child had passed away.
Pro-abortion media outlets, knowing Seewald is pro-life, immediately seized the opportunity to accuse Seewald of having a “life-saving abortion,” even though a D&C procedures can be utilized for numerous medical reasons, only one of which is to intentionally end the life of a child in the womb. The procedure, according to Mayo Clinic, is used to “diagnose and treat certain uterine conditions — such as heavy bleeding — or to clear the uterine lining after a miscarriage or abortion.”
Seewald responded to the attacks in a blistering response, pointing out the difference between miscarriage management — which is legitimate health care — and an abortion. “Women have D&C’s for many reasons, not all of which involve killing a living human being,” she said, adding, “There’s a world of difference between someone dying and someone being killed. To equate one to the other— and to a mother grieving the loss of her baby no less— is severely distasteful. There is a world of difference between a mortician and a murderer. Even a child understands the difference between the two.”
That was the Seewalds’ second pregnancy loss, making this baby even more special.
“Every heartbeat heard, every ultrasound seen, every appointment with a good report,” she wrote on Instagram, “the worries fade a little bit more. God has blessed us beyond measure, and YOU ARE SO, SO LOVED, my little one.”
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In a statement released by TLC, the couple said both mom and baby are doing well.
“After the heartbreaking loss of a baby last year, we’re overjoyed to share that another little Seewald is on the way,” the statement said. “The pregnancy is going smoothly, and both baby and Jessa are doing well. We are so grateful to God for the precious gift of a new life!”
