I just love birth stories! The emotion involved, the intensity, the relief and joy after the baby is born, it is all so real, raw and amazing! I have seven birth stories of my own and I love to hear other birth stories.

My married daughter is due the end of August. This is the first time that she lives close enough that I get to be there for the birth, watching her older children and seeing the birth if the timing works out depending on the needs of the children.

I also love families and big families. So I enjoy following the Duggars and Bates family since they each have 19 children. One of the Duggar daughters, Jessa Duggar Seewald, had Baby #6, on Saturday July 26, 2025. She hasn’t revealed the gender yet though.

You can watch Part 1 here where she shows what she did to get into labor.

Here’s Part 2 where she shows that her water broke while she’s lying on the couch at her parents’ home. Then she goes to the hospital and has the baby. She strategically doesn’t show the gender, even when the baby is being weighed. While watching, I thought, “Surely she’s going to tell us at the very end what the gender is.” But nope, at the very end we find it that we get to wait to find out. The footage at the end of the video involves her children coming to the hospital. Her voice over says that it’s her tradition for her husband and her to find out the gender during pregnancy, but not to reveal what it is. (With this last one, however, she did tell her sister Jinger on Jinger’s podcast video but then they bleeped it out, for purposes of click bait.) Her children get to find out right after the birth and then they reveal the gender to the rest of the super-size family. So now, we get to wait for Part 3 to find out.

I think it’s a boy, what do you think?

Note added a few days later: Jessa has created a video announcing the gender! Go here to see the reveal!

If you want more birth stories, read the book about birth and birth stories that I review here.