Our hearts, prayers, and nicely needs are with Jessa Duggar Seewald proper now.
On Friday night, the 30-year-old actuality TV veteran opened up in a brand new video posted to her YouTube channel. The 19 Kids and Counting alum uploaded the 18-minute-long video detailing some latest household happenings in a vlog-style format for her followers. Most notably — and most sadly — she revealed the horrible information of her latest miscarriage.
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Ben Seewald‘s wife was understandably very emotional about the awful ordeal in Friday night’s new add. She used the video to relay how she advised the couple’s children in regards to the new child at first. And then, over the vacations on the very finish of final 12 months, how all of them collectively handled the aftermath of the unhappy being pregnant loss.
According to Jessa, she began to turn out to be involved with potential heath problems throughout her being pregnant not too long ago. She had been “spotting” blood at totally different instances, she recalled. But whereas the stress was constructing, her household tried to cheer her up and carry her spirits till her subsequent physician’s appointment.
Sadly, as touching as their efforts had been, they couldn’t overcome the disappointment that consumed her upon studying of the miscarriage. At her subsequent ultrasound appointment, the physician advised Jessa the child “did not look good.” In the brand new vid, she recalled what occurred subsequent:
“Nothing could have prepared me for the weight of those words in that moment. At that moment I was just in complete shock. I didn’t have words. I just immediately started crying.”
Oh, no.
Ben was proper by her facet, and the 2 started to consolation one another. Technicians and the physician left the room as a way to permit the couple privateness to “process through the loss” collectively. Jessa recalled:
“We were just sitting there holding hands and crying, like, ‘what do we do from here.’ I feel like in some ways miscarriages can be so jarring because you don’t have clear signs of something going wrong. I had minimal spotting for 24 hours, and that was it.”
From there, docs suggested her to have specialists carry out a dilation and curettage process as a way to safely take away the child from her womb. Jessa agreed with that evaluation, and opted to verify right into a hospital to have it achieved.
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In the moments main as much as that well being process, the truth TV alum recalled in search of the grace and love of God for power by your complete ordeal:
“I was able to thank God in that moment for giving us this life, even if we wouldn’t be able to hold this baby in our arms.”
The process was accomplished, and Jessa fortunately skilled no bodily problems from it.
However, the emotional toll of your complete expertise started to weigh on her significantly in that second. With her voice breaking on digital camera as she re-told the story, the Duggar daughter recounted how troublesome it was to be alone along with her ideas:
“Those ten to fifteen minutes before I was taken back to the room where Ben and my mom were waiting were probably some of the hardest in my life, just laying there feeling so alone.”
So unhappy…
By the top of the video, Jessa admitted she was going to “take a break” from social media for some time and deal with her household, in addition to her private emotional and psychological restoration from the robust time. We completely perceive that.
As the aftermath of that terrible occasion continues to play out, we hope Jessa and Ben — and their youngsters Spurgeon, 7, Henry, 6, Ivy, 3, and Fern, 18 months — can discover consolation and solace in one another.
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You can watch her full video from Friday evening (under):
Just heartbreaking.
Sending love and light-weight to the entire Seewald clan.
[Image via Jessa Duggar Seewald/YouTube]
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