Jeremy and Jinger's miscarriage story

If you didn't read our news that Jeremy and Jinger are expecting their second child in November 2020, you can click here to read it. 

Jeremy and Jinger revealed that they learned that they were expecting their second child in the fall of 2019 and told the family. The next morning, Jinger ended up miscarrying the baby.

They revealed that their faith and loved ones got them through losing their child. Fast forward five months and Jinger learned that she was expecting again.

July Recap

The family celebrated four birthdays this month. Meredith celebrated her 4th birthday as Samuel celebrated his second birthday. Justin turned 18 as Jim Bob turned 54. Felicity celebrated her first birthday.

Jim Bob and Michelle celebrated their 32nd wedding anniversary.

Austin and Joy announced the passing of their second child into heaven just weeks after grandma Duggar's passing.

Annabell Elise enters heaven

We are so saddened to share that Austin and Joy's baby has joined heaven. Joy was due in early November to welcome her baby girl.

The couple went into their 20 week appointment to find out if it was a boy or a girl. It was a baby girl. The doctor was unable to find movement or heartbeat.

The couple named their baby girl Annabell Elise Forsyth! 

New photo of Lauren!

As many of you know that Josiah and Lauren sadly announced that they had miscarried their first child a few weeks ago. After this week's Counting ON, they released her first pregnancy photo.

 The couple did say that they had print off the photo and put it in the box along with their pregnancy box.

Recap: Love and Loss

Jana, Jessa, Kendra, and Lauren team up with some of the little girls to make groom’s cakes for John and Abbie’s Wedding. Jessa asked why you would weigh your ingredients since she managed to find a recipe online. She doesn’t have a scale in her kitchen since she hasn’t ever baked a cake since the siblings prefer ice cream better. John and Abbie have three rules about the cake that the teams need to follow. The first two are that they must be gluten and sugar free since Abbie went off them to make sure that her stomach feels better. They also want the cake to have an aviation themed. John reveals cooking without gluten and sugar has not been an easy task since everything out there has both. Abbie jokes that it’s easy if you eat vegetables. Jessa team up with Johannah and finds out that her baking power is three years old and does a quick test to find out if it fizzes and it does. She ends up using it and they put an model airplane on the top of the cake. Lauren has team up with Jordyn and Josie and feels confident with her baking abilities. Lauren knows how it feels to be gluten free since it gives her cramps. Kendra has team up with Jennifer and they tried to make a successful batter using gluten free flour mix and sugar substitutes. The bottom of the cake breaks but taste good. They are able to cover it with frosting and they make paper airplanes and put them on the cake including cotton from Kendra’s inside plants. Jana is making a fourth cake while Jackson and Tyler make cardboard airplanes. Jana tastes the cake and notice that there is a different texture to the batter and admits that she is glad that she isn’t gluten free. The boys get help from Michelle with the fondant and it turns out pretty good. Jana reveals that she ended up redoing some of it. It’s time for the couple to have a blind taste test as the teams gather to watch it. There are laughs as they try each cake. John doesn’t like cake number 3 since it tasted dry and little bit eggy. The winners were: Jana’s team for most difficult and best show, Lauren’s team for most original, Kendra’s team for best tasting, Jessa’s team for best design. Jessa reveals that you never want to be that person were it’s pretty on the outside but bad on the inside but that is what they were. John and Abbie admit that they won’t be having a groom’s cake since they don’t need another cake that they won’t eat.

Jeremy and Jinger are taking Felicity to the birthing center to visit their midwife. Jeremy says that his daughter is a very happy baby and loves people. The couple is still adjusting to parenthood. They admit about talking about her and her bowel movements. The midwife decides to ink up Felicity’s feet to add her footprints to the walls of the birthing center.

Lauren feels some severe cramps and assumes that she ate something with gluten. She later realizes that she is miscarrying her baby. Lauren reveals that it was late at night when she noticed that her baby was gone. She could not believe it and hoped that it was not true. She felt that it was the worst day in her life. She praises both Michelle and her mother for being there for her and Josiah. Lauren reveals that she and Josiah wrote letters to the baby and put a special box together for their first child. She feels that her comfort is the fact that the baby is with Jesus and one day she will get to see her baby. Josiah hopes that the Lord will bless them with another one that will be a sibling to the one that they lost.

February Recap

This month, Jessa announced that she is 25 weeks pregnant and she and Lauren had the same due date in June 2019.

Henry celebrated his second birthday while Gideon celebrated his first birthday. Tyler celebrated his 11th birthday. 

Counting On returned on February 11th

Bates family update: August 2018

We were going to wait to share an update on the Bates family but they have had many changes for the past few months that we would love to share with you all. The family recently got new photos done that we thought we would share with you all!

Zach and Whitney recently announced that they renewed their wedding vows in June 2018 right before Kaci Lynn celebrated her second birthday. The couple also announced that they were expecting their third child together however the pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. Zach and Whitney have said that they would love to have more children.

  Brandon and Michaella recently celebrated their third year of marriage on August 15th!

 John and Alyssa welcomed their daughter, Zoey Joy, into the world on March 28, 2018. She was born just a few weeks before her oldest sister, Allie Jane, celebrated her third birthday on April 11th. Lexi Mae recently celebrated her 18 month milestone. The couple recently celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary in May 2018.

Bobby and Tori announced that they were expecting their first child which is due in November 2018. The couple would later announced that the baby is a boy and will be naming Robert Ellis the fourth. They will be calling him Cade which means Fourth generation. They recently announced that he is due right around Thanksgiving.

 Chad and Erin welcomed their daughter, Everly Hope, into the world on March 30, 2018. The baby girl was born just two days after her cousin Zoey Joy. Their son, Carson, celebrated his third birthday on May 15th and their daughter, Brooklyn, celebrated her second birthday on August 6th.

Carlin and Evan recently celebrated their first year of their courtship.

 Kelton and Josie are engaged to be married. The wedding will take place on October 5th which is Katie's birthday.

Be sure to tune into our Bates family blog for more updates on the Bates family!