Jessa Duggar Rushed To Hospital After Losing ‘A Gush Of Blood’ – Inside The Life-Threatening Delivery!
Dec. 28 2015, Updated 2:23 p.m. ET
Jessa Duggar’s delivery turned into a nightmare when she was rushed to the hospital after gushing blood following her home birth. From the delivery drama to the aftermath of the medical scare, see the most explosive moments from the final episode of Jill & Jessa: Counting On!
The 23-year-old was three days overdue when she went into labor, having contractions every five minutes. Twenty hours later, Jessa was struggling through her at-home childbirth with her mother Michelle and sisters Jana and Jinger Duggar. “Ugh, this is painful,” she screamed.
Her husband Ben Seewald couldn’t handle watching his wife in so much pain. “She was in pain, so I was feeling the pain too,” he said in his confessional. “It kept dragging on and dragging on.”
After 30 hours of labor, Jessa welcomed her first child. “It was a really sweet moment,” she said in her confessional. “Then things kind of changed a little bit.” Jessa was rushed to the hospital after losing “a gush of blood.”
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“I think this was the most that I’d ever seen,” Jana said. “At that moment, we went into panic mode. I was thinking of these other situations where things could happen, and I thought, ‘Okay, this can’t happen to my sister.'”
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Once at the hospital, Jessa received a blood transfusion. But all was well again, as the couple finally decided on a name for their 11-ounce baby boy: Spurgeon Elliot Seewald.
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