Pregnant Joy-Anna Duggar revealed the sex of her and husband Austin Forsyth‘s fourth baby — and revealed whether they plan to have more kids.
During the Wednesday, October 28, episode of the “Call Your Sister” podcast, Duggar, 29, confirmed she is “having a girl.” She said her 5-year-old daughter, Evelyn, was “literally jumping around screaming” when she found out.
“She has been setting back clothes because we normally pass clothes to cousins,” Duggar noted. “She’s like, ‘I am going to keep this for my little sister.’ I am like, ‘OK, for six years.’”
Duggar and Forsyth, 32, also share sons Gideon, 8, and Gunner, 3, who can’t wait to meet their new baby sibling. “They really weren’t disappointed [about it being a girl],” Duggar said. “They were more excited than anything.”
Duggar, meanwhile, admitted she was “dead set” on thinking she was having another boy, so the reveal came as a surprise. “We found out at nine weeks,” she said. “We didn’t tell anybody that we knew the gender for, like, almost six weeks … just because I think there’s something special, and maybe it’s more because this is our fourth child that we are trying to soak up as much as we can, because we know how fast it passes.”
When Jinger Duggar asked her sister whether she’s planning to expand her family again, Joy-Anna replied, “We will see. I am obviously still pregnant, so I don’t feel like having another one.”
Joy-Anna announced her pregnancy in September. “Coming 2027!! So much joy, so much excitement, and so much love for this little one already. God knew we needed you,” she wrote via Instagram at the time.
The former TLC personality later discussed her feelings about deciding to grow their family.
“Even in the pregnancy, I am trying to enjoy it, even though it seems like it’s been fast,” Joy-Anna shared on a September episode of the “Call Your Sister” podcast. “It’s been harder, but I don’t know how many more times I’m going to do this.”
The 19 Kids and Counting alum admitted she felt “pressure” to have a large family since her parents — Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar — had so many children of their own.
“I felt that in our first pregnancy, and Austin and I have had to have real conversations about [it] because I feel like it’s really important,” Joy-Anna explained. “Austin, [during] this pregnancy, for the first time was like, ‘Do you know what? We might be done after this one. I don’t know, how do you feel?’”
She continued, “It’s crazy to me that we might already be there, like, we’re done with this phase of life, so that part of it is bittersweet. Right now, I don’t feel like I would be done with this one. Four or five have always been … in my mind.”
Joy-Anna isn’t the only member of her family who is expecting. Jessa Duggar announced she is pregnant with her seventh baby with husband Ben Seewald.
“We have six kids and we’re actually expecting again. Six weeks pregnant with number 7,” Jessa, 33, said in a teaser for the Wednesday episode of the “Unplanned Podcast.”
