Overview

• On August 2, Jessa recorded a vlog reporting three-to-five-minute contractions and her water breaking while pacing at her mother’s Arkansas home.
• She later checked into a nearby hospital where medical staff helped deliver her sixth child.
• The arrival brings Jessa and husband Ben Seewald’s total to six children, joining Spurgeon (9), Henry (8), George (18 months), Fern (5) and Ivy (3).
• In a July 24 video update, she revealed she was two centimeters dilated, 50 percent effaced and experiencing Braxton Hicks contractions.
• Michelle Duggar has been present for all but two of her daughters’ 19 births, reinforcing the matriarch’s commitment to supporting her children.