Mere hours after delivering her newborn son Israel David Dillard, Jill Duggar’s video introduction of the baby confirmed that “not everything went as expected.”
Does that mean she had a hospital c-section instead of a natural home birth?
If you watch the clip above, Jill doesn’t elaborate on the unexpected developments, only noting that they occurred … and plugging TLC’s special birth episode.
Yes, she wants you to watch 19 Kids and Counting online May 5 to find out!
The Duggars’ views on many subjects could be considered old-fashioned, one can ever accuse this family of failing Marketing, PR and Social Media 101.
Jill, 23, a midwife in training, planned to deliver #BabyDilly at home in March.
The wife of Derick Dillard, 25, went almost two weeks past her due date, however, and in the video above, she can be seen donning a medical bracelet.
Fans quickly speculated that Jill not only gave birth in the hospital, but underwent a cesarean section, or c-section, during her unplanned visit there.
Israel Dillard came into the world weighing in at a whopping 9 lbs., 10 oz. to boot, furthering the theory that it he had to enter the world via major surgery.
That birth weight, while not unprecedented, would make a vaginal birth a challenge to be sure. Not like it hasn’t been done, but that’s a large infant.
Then there’s the fact that Israel looked no worse for the wear afterward.
“I’m going to guess he was a c-section by his nicely shaped head,” one Duggar family fan guessed, also noting that Derick has scrubs on in one photo:
“I’ve never known the fathers to wear scrubs during a vaginal birth."
It will be interesting to see when this plays out on TLC next month. Do you think Jill was forced to have a c-section? How do you think she felt about it?