Jessa Duggar Unveils Name of Baby No. 5

Sammi Burke
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Jessa Duggar

A day after celebrating the birth of her rainbow baby, Jessa Duggar Seewald has shared the sweet babe's name with the world.

The former 19 Kids and Counting star revealed the birth of her fifth child with husband Ben Seewald on Saturday, Dec. 23, announcing that the couple had welcomed a baby boy together.

"Baby is here and we couldn’t be more grateful!" she captioned a photo of herself holding her newborn son in a hospital bed uploaded to Instagram, directing fans to her YouTube channel for the "full birth story."

The next day, she posted "Part 2" of her birth story on the video platform, revealing that they'd kept the baby's gender a secret from his older siblings. As the other kids—Spurgeon, 9, Henry, 6, Ivy, 4, and Fern, 2—filed into the hospital room to meet their new little brother, text over the footage revealed that they still had not decided on a name for the newest addition.

There was a "top contender," though: George Augustine. "I think that sounds like a really good, strong name," she said in a voiceover. "I think the name fits."

Spurgeon and Henry both took about five days to be formally named, but since they were both born at home, the parents had a little extra time to come to a decision. This time, it was a race against the clock to fill out the hospital's paperwork, so they "decided to just settle on the name" in order to get home to the rest of their kids.

In the first video of the birth story, Jessa shared that she had labored at home for 12 hours before seeking medical attention, where a doctor eventually discovered that George wasn't in the best position to deliver. After several hours of shifting positions, he was finally able to descend.

George marks the couple's sixth child overall—the first born after Jessa was forced to have a life-saving procedure after an incomplete miscarriage. According to her YouTube video, mom and baby are both home with the rest of their family—just in time for Christmas.

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