Well, we knew it had to happen eventually. Jill Duggar-Dillard has finally given birth to her first child, a little boy she and husband Derick Dillard named Israel David Dillard. Thoughts on the name? I actually don’t mind the name Israel at all for a boy, but then again, I rarely mind country-names unless they’re really out-of-nowhere, like Alicia Keys naming her baby Egypt (I still don’t get that). Like, I love the name “India” for a girl. And I’m fine with Israel. It’s an ancient Hebrew name that means “May God Prevail.” I would expect it more from a Jewish family, but the Duggars clan is so churchy and so Old-Testament-heavy, I guess it makes sense.
Jill was actually about two weeks past her due date, and she still didn’t go into labor naturally, she had to be induced. Late babies are pretty common, especially for first-time mothers, but it really seems like Isreal didn’t want to come out. There was some reporting that she had gone into labor on Good Friday, but it was just Braxton Hicks contractions. Baby Israel ended up coming very late on Monday night, or Easter Monday (as some Christians celebrate). People Magazine says mother and child are doing well, so that’s good news. Derick also posted a lengthy essay ahead of his baby’s birth about fatherhood, childbirth and Jesus (of course) – go here to read.
Well, here’s hoping the new generation of Duggars isn’t as nutters as the previous generation. And let’s hope Derick and Jill never get Israel a little kitty.
Photos courtesy of Derick & Jill’s social media.
A new arrival should always be a celebration but it does worry me about humanity that more children are being born into that (insert word here) family …
Yes. That innocent child, a clean slate to be polluted with their ignorance and intolerance and self-righteousness. It makes me ill. What chance does he have to find out who he is and what he wants to become? Let the brainwashing begin.
Please don’t cover these people. They are horrible horrible people who preach racism and sexism and so many other truly awful things. Cover the inside of Kim K’s large intestine complete with pictures before you cover them.
And yes I know what I’m talking about. My mom is one of 18. I have seen first hand what this kind of “parenting” does to people.
Plus about 1 million…to both comments.
Saw this from a comment on another Duggar post: “Because she’s fulfilled her purpose in life as a woman: turning her vagina into a tshirt cannon for The Lord. Amen, everybody!”
Exactly! Enjoy your time as an only child, Izzy…because it will only last 9 months.
I wonder if she’s already pregnant with #2
Probably working on it.
I believe they have copulation rules post birth as well. Must wait 30 days post boy birth and 60 post girl birth. I believe I read that somewhere on the Duggar parents. I’m sure they make the offspring follow that rule too.
That’s actually a legit “rule” in the bible. For real. Same with not having sex until a week after a woman “stops bleeding” which conveniently lands you right in the middle of ovulation. It’s all in the name of “cleanliness”.
I’m sorry, but I don’t see what the big deal is about that rule of not having sex until a week after your period ends, I don’t think it should be an absolute rule but I think people really don’t look at the big picture enough. The bible was written a long time ago. People didn’t have the resources we have now and it probably WAS a lot cleaner. Also reproduction was way more important back then with the lower life expectancy and all. Even from an evolutionary viewpoint it makes much more sense to have sex around ovulation and there are lots of studies showing both men and women are more likely to have sex when the woman is ovulating so when a religion uses the same idea, you have a problem with it? They didn’t even know about ovulation back then.
It’s not about hygiene. It’s about women being dirty in the eyes of church. Hence the 2x longer time required to wait after having a girl.
@KD it is a rule in the Bible, but it is an Old Testament rule. Christians generally do not follow this rule. The Duggars are unique (strange?) because despite being Christians, they follow a lot of Old Testament rules such as not eating pork.
QwErty is correct…women were considered unclean thyself the longer wait time after a dirty female passed through
She will be in 39 days.
Good God that shirt he’s wearing. I hope he just thought it was cute paired with the baby name and that these uneducated kids aren’t trying to get involved in world politics.
Welp, I guess they’re entitled to their beliefs as much as I’m entitled to believe that this whole family is nutty.
It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if they were trying to delve into politics (Well, mostly him because Duggar women have one job, and that’s popping out hordes of children). Jim Bob was a state congressman, and her older brother has moved to DC to work for the legislative division of the Family Research Council.
Oh no-there’s a big push in right wing Christian groups to be very involved in Israeli politics (sending them money etc) It was 100% on purpose.
Yeah it’s not really a Jewish thing to name your kid Israel. It weirds me out when fundies do it. As for pairing it with David, hey that’s a common name in lots of cultures, but clearly they were going for a hard hitting King David vibe. * shudder*
Ira is short for Israel, is it not? Ira is pretty common around me. Mostly my parents generation though, not so much anymore.
Quick Google search. Nope Ira is not short for Israel. Just a common Hebrew name with old testament relevance.
The Israelis should watch their backs. Pre-Millenialist Christians heavily support Israel because it must exist in order to be destroyed in the Second Coming of Jesus, when the nice guy of the Sermon on the amount is transformed into an angry warrior smiting all the rest of us. The conflict has to start in the Middle East. President Reagan put a lot of ardent pre-millennialists into high positions and was a lite version himself. They hope the Second Coming will be in their lifetime. Not exactly an incentive to work for peace. Or environmental issues. Or anything but quick profits.
Of course it is 100% on purpose. It’s not just a unique name- the Duggars doubtless believe that THEY and their co-extremists are going to be in Israel when the Second Coming arrives. Millennial dispensationalists, I think is the term.
And I agree with jwoolman that it’s one reason they don’t care about the environment or world peace – none of that matters because they believe God’s going to come back to Earth and everything will be paradise for the righteous such as themselves.
Not to mention the IDF shirt…as if I needed another reason to hate them.
Scary right? I mean, if I was them I’d be worried about some sleeper cell nut job coming after me. I’d keep politics out of it if I was them.
Vice had a segment on this creepytown obsession that religious Nutter Butters have with “supporting Israel” so Definitely is a Thing and indeed the reason for that shirt probably)
I know. Everytime I see this guy, I keep thinking he must be Aaron Rodgers’ redneck cousin from the hills.
For some reason I can see Jill and Derick being the new face/spokespeople for the Duggar Family. Michelle and Jim Dumb are gradually stepping back from the spotlight. I am seeing more articles about the younger Duggars
MEchelle will never leave the spotlight without a fight .
She needs a headband with her name on it to be properly identified? Israel and David, King of Israel, author of the Psalms. Very Old Testament. Interesting choices.
You should read Michael K’s take on that headband over at dlisted. Had me cracking up!
My favourite was his suggested name of Intolerancia for a future child. So funny.
Intolerancia, sister of Icant. LOL Those write-ups are hilarious.
Incontinent Exceptone Dillard would be the child who struggles with potty the most, except for the one day they don’t.
9lbs 10oz is a big baby. Based on Derick’s t-shirt the name seems to be politically inspired. I’m sure they see the success of the state of Israel as a necessary precursor to the second coming.
Bingo.
Very accurate, I had hoped they would emigrate and leave us all alone.
I don’t remember where I read this, but a Jewish woman wrote an article and said hey, Christians, don’t name your kids Israel. We don’t name our kids YMCA Bible Camp.
It killed me!
I guess they’re going to go with I names? They’ll run out/get to super weird ones fairly fast. I guess they already have with Israel. And I agree, his wearing that shirt is tacky as hell.
Wha? K Now I need to have a kid just to name It “bible camp.” Imma gonna drop YMCA though. Too Village People.
Lol, I know this is awful, but we’re just catching up on the newest season of Trailer Park Boys and they have accidentally named a child “The Motel” because he thought he was filling a line out for where the baby would be living. YMCA Bible Camp could be his best friend.
@erinn – The sad thing is little Moe would probably be better off in life than poor Israel. Moe has been anointed in the liquor! 🙂
Israel is an old name, not really weird. Just relatively out of fashion for a while. Name preferences come and go. The names they choose are not the scary thing about these folks.
Hilarious. Maybe I will name my next kitty Bible Camp.
A Duggar breeding is not news. A Duggar going to college or choosing to not have kids period? That’s news.
This mouth breather popping out another bar of soap for brainwashing is about as newsworthy as the sky being up and water being wet.
It’s way past time for Arkansas to pass a mandatory spay/neuter law.
The name by itself is fine, but I don’t like it paired with that last name. Israel Dillard sounds weird to me. The baby is huge. I was actually worried that she would still try for a home birth after ” praying” about it, even though she was so late and so big. I’m sure it will be just a matter of months before she’s announcing her next pregnancy. She and Derick seem to be the newly crowned spokespeople for the Duggar brand of fundie Koolaid. They’ll be lots more uneducated little bigots being produced by these two. Probably all with names starting with I.
Yea considering how on and on she was going about home birth and having her family around and being in a pool and how it’s the best thing ever and how everyone should do it-I’m surprised that she gave birth at a hospital.
OMG It’s like the department store Dillards opened in Israel. LMAO @ “Israel Dillard.” Great place to get knock-off Israeli sandals made in China.
Lmao bettyrose. This thread is killing me.
Haha.
She still looks surprised. He still looks like an a**h**e. The baby is cute. For now.
They look like happy new parents, and I’m happy for them that their baby arrived safely, but OH, for the love of God, why the personalized headband? Is it so her parents will recognize which one of their daughters she is when they see pictures of her and the baby?
I can’t figure out the headband wearing thing, either. She probably thought it was cute. Like she thought going barefoot at her church wedding was cute. She’s 23, but often thinks or acts like she’s 13.
I wish her luck, and hope she can handle it better than Anna does.
If I were that baby I would not want to come out and be part of that family either.
But if he comes out at least he has a chance to run away? Imagine being stuck in there forever hearing what she is saying, thinking, etc *shudder*
You guys! LOL
Some people believe that children choose their parents.
That baby looks just like Jim boob. Slap a wig on him and you won’t be able to tell the difference.
Where did you hear she was induced? I haven’t read that anywhere.
If she has standard health insurance they will require a mother be induced is she is still pregnant 10 days (give or take) after the due date. (It’s a ridiculous rule IMO & something I don’t think the insurance company should decide on). The reasoning is that the mother’s blood pressure tends to skyrocket past her due date, but I suppose size of the baby and diminishing ambiotic fluid supply are also concerns. With my first I was pretty much forced to schedule an induction because I was overdue, so I went home & tried every wive’s tale I could to start my labor, and fortunately my labor started naturally.
Her husband works for Walmart so I’m not sure…I honestly figured they were paying out of pocket for the midwives.
I figured her Braxton hicks contractions was actually early labor.
I like the name and I’m surprised they didn’t go with something more traditional. I actually think they make a cute couple and thought he was harmless until the cat incident, now he’s kind of on my list.
Whatever you do, no one get that baby a kitten!
All that hair. Jill might want to rethink that one with a little one now.
Jill has never looked more like Michelle. Kinda ironic that it’s after childbirth.
I’ve just noticed that, of all the girls, she has the craziest eyes. Scary.
All the girls look like Michelle. Right down to the weird smirk.
That’s what I thought! Looking very “Michelle!”
I wonder why it doesn’t surprise me in the least that the baby didn’t want to come out…
Lol.
Eww he is so gross.
I don’t even care is that’s mean. He’s a Duggar so… I don’t care!
9lbs.10oz.!!!!
I wouldn’t want to come out either if I was their kid. He is cute though.
The baby does look more “done” as a result of his extra time inside. My older brother was two weeks late also (a pattern he maintains to this day), and my mother said he was unusually alert. Eyes open, looking all around right away. Me, I was on time and just wanted to sleep (a pattern I also maintain to this day).
I imagine Jill decided a hospital would be safer in case she needed to be induced or there were other complications. That’s a big boy and she’s not so big.
I was born two weeks late, a pattern I also maintain to this day, lol.
Congrats to them, but tell me again why these people are celebrities? And dear US Magazine: please stop trying to make this chick’s career happen. She’s done nothing beyond being born into a freaky family.
Because being sexist, homophobic, racist and all-around a bigoted idiot sells, for some reason.
Based on the pictures of how big she was, I knew they would have a big baby, but my goodness he’s HUGE! For her sake, I hope she had a c-section. I can’t imagine delivering a baby that size naturally. He’ll be taller than her by the time he’s ten, lol! Congratulations to them, but I hope Derrick doesn’t go full-on Duggar now. Two Jim Bob’s (Josh is the second one) are enough.
My thoughts exactly, and I’ve always wondered if Michelle took the epidural in any of her million pregnancies, or if she considers those to be wrong. If we want to be technical childbirth was Eve’s punishment for original sin, and I’ve heard many super religious types say epidurals circumvent God *rolls eyes*
He’s so icky. Ew Ew Ew.
They are gonna ruin that baby. *sighs* The duggars make me want to give up.
I’m Jewish, Israeli, yadda yadda yadda…and these 2 creep me out. seriously, haven’t we suffered enough?
I don’t believe the baby was late. They totally sampled the goods before marriage!
I had my baby girl the day before them…I hope they’re getting more sleep than me.
As for them reproducing again…As my husband would say “he’ll get her on the foal heat”. I’m assuming it will be before the reccomended six weeks but after 15 days.
Annnnnd she’s crying.
My mom and my uncle served in the IDF. I’m soooo not a fan of his IDF/Zahal t-shirt. Of course, I’m not a fan of the family either…
I am an a$$hole but I don’t think the baby is cute. Not all babies are.
Agreed.
Anyone else annoyed that those against education have no qualms about benefitting from the services of the educated? Like they’ll use all the hospital technology in their breed-a-thon but they don’t agree with the education these specialists receive. If the world was all fundies we wouldn’t have access to this advanced type of medical care.