JILL Duggar is PREGNANT with her third child with husband Derick Dillard four months after revealing the couple’s heartbreaking miscarriage.
The Counting On alum broke the news on her Dillard family website after they lost their daughter, River.
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Jill, 30, shared an emotional message about the “little secret” they’ve been keeping.
She posted on their website: “We’ve been keeping a little secret!”
The reality star continued: “Ever since we were devastated last fall by the miscarriage of our sweet baby, River Bliss, we have prayed that, if it was God’s will, he would bless us with another baby.”
She concluded: “We are excited to announce that God has answered our prayers and we are expecting our rainbow baby due July 2022!”
The couple has not yet found out the baby’s gender, but are “so excited” to learn if they will be having a baby girl or boy “soon.”
They are already parents to sons Israel, six, and Samuel, four.
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JILL’S HEARTBREAK
Back in October 2021, Jill shared that they had planned to name their third child River Bliss Dillard before the devastating miscarriage.
She shared the heartbreaking news to fans in an emotional letter on her family blog.
“We recently found out that we were expecting our third baby,” the post began. “We were all thrilled!”
She continued: “It was fun to see so much joy in the boys’ faces as we shared the news with them.
“They were full of questions and so excited as we talked about the pregnancy and how they would get to be involved along the way and after baby was born.
“However, a few days later we started miscarrying.”
The pair picked out the name because of the various meanings behind it, including “tranquil.”
They added that “rivers are often a serene, beautiful escape in nature.”
SHARING THE TRAGIC NEWS
Jill continued in the emotional blog: “Our baby doesn’t get to live here with us on earth, but is forever with the source of the river of life, in the presence of the Lord!
“And we chose Bliss for a middle name because our baby is living in perfect bliss with the Lord and was such a gift that brought immense joy and happiness to us even though only with us here on earth for a short time.”
Along with the letter, Jill and Derick shared a video of themselves finding out she was pregnant and telling their two sons the news.
The family was all smiles and joy over the baby news, until near the end of the clip when Jill found out she was miscarrying.
The TV personality took a solemn selfie and shared the heartbreaking loss with fans and wrote a touching note to River Bliss Dillard.
The video ended on a close-up of Jill and Derick sitting side by side, holding each other’s hands during this difficult time.
CASE CLOSED
The news comes as Jill, along with her sisters, Jessa, Joy-Anna and Jinger had their lawsuit against police dismissed after a judge said they failed to prove cops caused them “emotional distress” by leaking a molestation report.
Jessa, Jill, Jinger and Joy-Anna had legally challenged local authorities over a leaked police report claiming their disgraced brother, Josh Duggar, molested minors in the family home.
The Sun exclusively revealed that the judge in the Arkansas federal case against the local authorities was dismissed with prejudice after the settlement conference scheduled for a Thursday was canceled ahead of the decision.
The judge ruled that the local authorities did not intend to inflict emotional distress and that they were even attempting to conceal the alleged victims’ identities by redacting the police report before it was released to the media.
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