Mere hours after delivering her newborn son Israel David Dillard, Jill Duggar's video introduction of the baby confirmed that “not everything went as expected.”
Does that mean she had a hospital c-section instead of a natural home birth?
If you watch the clip above, Jill doesn't elaborate on the unexpected developments, only noting that they occurred ... and plugging TLC's special birth episode.
Yes, she wants you to watch 19 Kids and Counting online May 5 to find out!
The Duggars' views on many subjects could be considered old-fashioned, one can ever accuse this family of failing Marketing, PR and Social Media 101.
Jill, 23, a midwife in training, planned to deliver #BabyDilly at home in March.
The wife of Derick Dillard, 25, went almost two weeks past her due date, however, and in the video above, she can be seen donning a medical bracelet.
Fans quickly speculated that Jill not only gave birth in the hospital, but underwent a cesarean section, or c-section, during her unplanned visit there.
Israel Dillard came into the world weighing in at a whopping 9 lbs., 10 oz. to boot, furthering the theory that it he had to enter the world via major surgery.
That birth weight, while not unprecedented, would make a vaginal birth a challenge to be sure. Not like it hasn't been done, but that's a large infant.
Then there's the fact that Israel looked no worse for the wear afterward.
“I’m going to guess he was a c-section by his nicely shaped head,” one Duggar family fan guessed, also noting that Derick has scrubs on in one photo:
“I’ve never known the fathers to wear scrubs during a vaginal birth."
It will be interesting to see when this plays out on TLC next month. Do you think Jill was forced to have a c-section? How do you think she felt about it?
