The newest member of the Duggar family arrived Sunday, a little overdue. Josh and Anna Duggar became parents for the fourth time with the arrival of daughter Meredith Grace. Josh, 27, who has been lying low since details of his molestation scandal broke, posted a photo on Instagram of himself, Anna and the new baby to announce his daughter's arrival nine days after her due date. According to Josh, the little girl weighed in at 7 pounds, 14 ounces and 20-1/2 inches long. 'Anna and Meredith are resting & doing well!' he wrote. Anna did an amazing job though labor,' Michelle said as she and Jim Bob stand in the living room of their Arkansas home. 'We are just rejoicing with Josh and Anna. Meredith Grace is beautiful and Mackynzie, Michael and Marcus are just loving having their little sister here.
'The new baby will no doubt be welcomed as something positive to celebrate for the Duggar clan. Just three days ago, TLC officially announced that it was canceling the reality series 19 Kids And Counting following the revelations about Josh fondling underage girls including sisters Jill and Jessa when he was a teen. Filming on the show had been suspended since TLC pulled reruns from its network in May. That means that Meredith Grace is the first of the couple's four children not to have her birth documented by camera crews. Josh and Anna, also 27, married in 2008, the year the series focused on Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar began airing.
They have a daughter Mackynzie born in 2009 and two sons, Michael born in 2011 and Marcus born in 2013. The arrival of another granddaughter also makes Duggar patriarch Jim Bob's 50th birthday on Saturday more special. Meredith Grace is Jim Bob's fifth grandchild. In what or may not be a coincidence, when Josh and Anna appeared on NBC's Today show in 2009 to announce their first child was going to be a daughter, host Meredith Viera had joked with the couple that they should call their first child after her. While Josh's parents had decided to name all 19 of their children with names beginning with J, Josh said they were thinking of naming their children with names beginning with M.
'We've talked about M's, so we're down the right road for Meredith,' Josh said on the air Vieira urged them to go with the name, telling them: 'Don't pull my leg here! You know I've been your biggest fan.