Michelle Duggar, 2004's, Young Mother of the Year?

Michelle Duggar is the mother from the show 19 Kids and Counting and is even more recently being talked about in the media due to her miscarriage she just had.

Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar were married in 1984 and decided to wait to have children, and used birth control.  After 3 years Michelle Duggar got pregnant with their oldest son, Josh, and after giving birth, again continued with birth control.  Shortly after Duggar got pregnant again and had a miscarriage and then blamed the birth control for the miscarriage and discontinued birth control use. She explained it by saying they "decided to allow Got to determine the number of children".

As mentioned, the Duggar's have 19 children, who's names all begin with the letter 'J'.  Their names and birth dates are as follows:

-Joshua James
March 3, 1988

-Jana Marie
January 12, 1990

-John-David
January 12, 1990

-Jill Michelle
May 17, 1991

-Jessa Lauren
November 4, 1992

-Jinger Nicole
December 21, 1993

-Joseph Garrett
January 20, 1995

-Josiah Matthew
August 28, 1996

-Joy-Anna
October 28, 1997

-Jedidiah Robert
December 30, 1998

-Jeremiah Robert
December 30, 1998

-Jason Michael
April 21, 2000

-James Andrew
July 7, 2001

-Justin Samuel
November 15, 2002
-Jackson Levi
May 23, 2004

-Johannah Faith
October 8, 2005

-Jennifer Danielle
August 2, 2007

-Jordyn-Grace Makiya

December 18, 2008

-Josie Brooklyn

December 10, 2009

In 2009 Michelle Duggar gave birth to their youngest daughter, Josie, at age 43 during an emergency C-Section.  Josie was born 3 months prematurely and only weighed 1 lb, 6 oz.  After 4 months in the hospital the Duggars were able to take Josie home but 2 days later she was readmitted to the hospital when her vitals began to drop. Then on June 23, 2010 Josie was finally able to go home, 6 months after being born. In May 2010 Michelle Duggar was quoted saying,

"We would love more! I'm 43, almost 44 this September. I know that my mommy years are probably numbered, and I don't know how many more children God will see fit to give me. "It is something we've been praying about because we do love children. Each child really is a gift and that doesn't mean just our children. We asked the Lord to give us a love of children the way He loves children. That is something that we've prayed about, and we'll just see what the Lord has in store for our family in the future"

 On November 8, 2011 on the Today Show the Duggar's announced that they were pregnant with their 20th child, and one month later on December 8, 2011 they announced that Michelle has miscarried.  She was about 19 weeks along at the time.

Now, I would first like to state the fact that I am not a very religious person so I don't understand the underlying connection the Duggar's may have with God, but I do believe that God would not continue to give you more pregnancies if you last one was already a risky pregnancy in which your child almost died!

After the age of 35 a number of risks go up significantly versus having a child at an age less than 35.  For example, the odds of your child being born with a birth defect at age 25, 1 in 1,250; at age 30, 1 in 1000; age 35 1 in 400; at age 40, 1 in 100, and at age 45 (Michelle Duggar is 45 years old) 1 in 40. And miscarriage rate at age 45 has increased to more than 50%, that means more than 1 out of 2 pregnancies at age 45 end in a miscarriage.

I understand that they might not believe in birth control, and that "God wants them to have all these children" but why would God give her these children and then have the pregnancy be risky or end in miscarriage? That makes absolutely no sense to me. And as a 45 year old woman, your doctor is obviously going to tell you your risks when you come in and are pregnant. I know she was told about her risks with her last pregnancy, and I am sure the doctors clearly told them the risks with this last pregnancy. And I think there comes a point in time when you need to put a belief aside and perhaps use some birth control so you don't end up getting pregnant and having such premature children or worse, lose the baby. Now, I am a very pro-choice person, but I honestly consider Michelle Duggar losing this baby as bad as abortion. She basically killed the child simply because she is too old to be having children. With a statistic of  >50% of pregnancies at the age of 45 ending in miscarriage, why would you even allow yourself to get pregnant? Just stop having sex then if you aren't going to use a form of protection from getting pregnant. And not to mention that her last child was born 3 months premature and almost died too. I didn't read anywhere about the Duggar's views on abortion but I assume they are pro-life based on their other beliefs so it makes me wonder if she even realized that by getting pregnant at her age and losing her baby, she is killing a child because there was more than a 50% chance that her child would miscarry. I really hope this miscarriage finally knocks some sense into Michelle Duggar's head and she does not become pregnant after this. You are a 45 year old mother of 19 and a grandmother of 2, stop having sex and trying to have more children because you are way to old to be conceiving.

The Duggar Family.