‘18 Kids & Counting’ Parents Debut 19th Child

Exactly seven weeks after her early arrival, Josie Duggar is making her media debut.

Josie, who was born three-and-a-half months premature, is the 19th child of the “18 Kids & Counting” TV parents, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar.

In an exclusive interview and photoshoot with People magazine,

he Duggars report that Josie is doing well, but call her survival “a miracle.” Delivered by cesarean section only 25 weeks after mom Michelle was diagnosed with preeclampsia, Josie weighed at an itty-bitty 1 lb., 6 oz. when she was born.

“Years ago, a baby this small wouldn’t have lived an hour,” Jim Bob told the magazine. “We are so grateful for the ability to help

her.”

Though she’s still in an incubator at the NICU unit at Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock, the littlest Duggar now weighs in at 2 lb., 4 oz. Luckily for the little one, TLC television stars Michelle, Jim Bob, their 17 of their 18 other children, have moved to Little Rock from their hometown of Tontitown, Arkansas to be as close to Josie possible.

In the meantime, the not-yet-2-month-old had better get used to the limelight: In addition to TLC updates, the Duggars spent Thursday morning speaking to the “Today” show’s Meredith Viera. When asked if baby Josie was “out of the woods,” Jim Bob told Meredith that both the doctors and the family were taking it “day by day.”

“We know at any moment, things could change,” he added.