Jessa Duggar Enlists Sister Jordan to Cut Sixth Baby’s Cord in Sweet Delivery Moment
Jaden Patel here. It’s not every day you get a backstage pass to a Duggar birth where siblings wield surgical shears, but hey, stranger things have happened.
Jessa Duggar Seewald confirmed the arrival of her sixth child on August 4, and she had a cunning plan to help her husband, Ben Seewald, overcome his squeamish streak. “You’ve never cut the cord. You should cut the cord this time,” she teased him in an August 4 YouTube video. Given Ben’s confessed weak stomach, that was pure comedic gold.
It turns out that the real MVP in the delivery room was Jessa’s sister, Jordan Duggar. This was Jordan’s first time attending one of her sister’s births, and Jessa decided it was the perfect initiation. “Jordan, you should cut the cord,” Jessa insisted, and Jordan’s eyes apparently lit up like a kid in a candy store. Seconds later she was holding the umbilical cord, slicing through like a pro, and proclaiming, “Wow. This is awesome. This is so cool.” According to E! Online, that moment was among the sweetest in the early hours after the baby arrived.
The Duggar family matriarch, Michelle Duggar, also played hostess and coach in that tiny theater of pain and joy. Chelsea Wagley at People Magazine once called Michelle “the ultimate birth doula,” and Jessa seems to agree. She credited Michelle’s unwavering support during labor, plus those overnight baby-sitting stints while Jessa recovered. Mom stayed by her side, offered encouragement, and even managed late-night feedings for newborn No. 6. If there’s a Duggar support network, Michelle is its central node.
Jessa and Ben—already parents to Spurgeon, 9, Henry, 8, Ivy, 5, Fern, 3, and George, 20 months—kept the newborn’s name and gender under wraps, promising a forthcoming reveal that will include all five older siblings. It’s the Duggar way: big family, bigger announcements.
For context, the Duggars began as Arkansas high school sweethearts. Jim Bob and Michelle married at ages 19 and 17. Jim Bob served in the Arkansas House of Representatives and even ran for U.S. Senate in 2002, though that bid ended in the primary (source: Family Blog, 2017). Since then, they’ve amassed 19 children and over 37 grandchildren. At this point it’s basically a small village.
Amid so many siblings and cousins, it’s refreshing to see a genuine “first”—Jordan’s debut performance cutting an umbilical cord. You’d think someone in that brood of 19 would have claimed it already, but no, Jordan stepped up when it counted. It’s a neat twist on the Duggar family tree, where the next generation not only grows in number but also in surgical confidence.
And now we wait. Will the reveal party involve a cake shaped like a baby’s footprint? Will baby No. 6 arrive sporting that signature Duggar modesty gown? Stay tuned—because in that household, no detail is too small and no announcement ever dull.
Let’s pretend we learned something today.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and E! Online, People Magazine
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