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Mom Gives Birth to Baby No. 18

'I like to snuggle,' says Arkansas woman
By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff
Posted Dec 19, 2008 4:14 AM CST
Mom Gives Birth to Baby No. 18
Arkansas mom Michelle Duggar holds her newborn daughter, Jennifer Danielle, who was born last year.   (AP Photo/Beth Hall)

And you thought Angelina Jolie had a lot of kids. An Arkansas mom has just given birth to her 18th. The baby, Jordyn-Grace Makiya, joins a crowd of sibs with names that start with the letter J and star in the TLC series 17 Kids & Counting. The spree began when the Baptist couple, married as teens, ditched their birth control pills. "What really works for me is swaddling a baby and snuggling up," the mom told People. "This time goes by so quickly."
(More TLC stories.)

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