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  • Jessa Seewald Breaks Silence on Emergency Trip to Hospital Following Baby’s Birth

    Jessa Seewald is breaking her silence about her emergency trip to the hospital following the birth of her baby boy last Thursday.

    Ben and Jessa Seewald welcomed a nine lb., 11 oz. son who measured 21 inches in length nearly a week ago, in a home birth. Following the birth, former 19 Kids and Counting matriarch Michelle Duggar called 911, telling an EMS dispatcher that her daughter was losing a lot of blood.

    “Labor is hard,” Jessa Seewald tells People magazine in her first interview since the still unnamed Baby Seewald arrived. “It was very intense, very long. Everything was different than I expected.”

    After 10 hours of intense labor, Jessa nearly threw in the towel on her home birth plans.

    “I said, ‘That’s it! I’m done! I am going to the hospital and I’m going to get an epidural,’ ” she says. “They asked me if I really wanted to do that and I said, ‘No, I don’t, but I do.’ I wanted to try natural if at all possible.”

    New dad Ben Seewald admits watching Jessa in pain wasn’t easy either.

    “I was trying to keep it positive…there were a few times, she was like, ‘I can’t do this,’” he says/

    Jessa Seewald was fully conscious when Michelle Duggar called 911, per the advice of Jessa’s midwife.

    “I tried to keep my head, I was awake and alert,” Jessa recalls.

    She says the hardest part of going to the hospital was leaving her newborn baby behind.

    Jessa Seewald was in serious condition, however. She required a transfusion and an overnight at the hospital because of how much blood she lost. Doctors don’t like to give transfusions unless patients are in very precarious medical situations.

    Now feeling great–or at least putting on a good front for the press–Jessa Seewald is back home with her baby and her husband.

    Fans are now waiting to learn what Ben and Jessa Seewald decide to name their son.

    Does it sound like Jessa Seewald should have had her baby in a hospital? Losing enough blood to warrant a transfusion is no laughing matter.

  • Jessa Seewald Rushed to Hospital Following Home Birth, Mom and Baby Doing Fine

    Jessa Seewald was reportedly rushed to the hospital following a home birth on Thursday night. Sources tell Entertainment Tonight that Jessa Seewald experienced heavy bleeding following the delivery of her baby boy, and mom Michelle Duggar called 911.

    Despite the minor complication, both mom and Baby Seewald are doing just fine.

    Ben Seewald couldn’t wait to share a photo of their little family on Friday. In addition to posting it on the website he shares with Jessa, he also posted it on the Facebook site for Jessa Seewald and Jill Dillard’s upcoming TLC show, Jill & Jessa: Counting On.

    <3 this sweet family of three! #BabySeewald MORE DETAILS: http://ow.ly/Um42I

    Posted by Jill & Jessa: Counting On on Friday, November 6, 2015

    Baby Seewald weighed in at a very healthy nine pounds and 11 ounces. Jessa Seewald had mentioned just days ahead of his birth that she expected their baby would be big. She weighed nine pounds and 15 ounces at birth.

    “I’d say it’s very possible we could have a chubby little baby!” she joked last week.

    Fans are no doubt excited to learn what Ben and Jessa Seewald name their bundle of joy. Will they choose a biblical name like Derick and Jill Dillard? They named their baby boy Isaiah.

    The entire Duggar family is no doubt thrilled that Baby Seewald has joined the former 19 Kids and Counting gang, and they’re surely grateful that despite the scare following the birth, that both the baby and Jessa Seewald are okay.