Jennifer Danielle was born at 10.01am at a hospital in Rogers, Arkansas, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar said in an interview.

 

"We'd love to have more," Michelle said, referring to baby girls.

"We love the ruffles and lace."

 

Jennifer joins the fast-growing Duggar brood, who live in a 650sq m home in Tontitown.

 

All the children - whose names start with the letter J - are taught at home.

The oldest is 19 and the youngest, after Jennifer, is almost two.

 

"We are just so grateful to God for another gift from him," said Mr Duggar, a former state representative.

"We are just so thankful to him that everything went just very well."

 

Michelle Duggar said she started feeling contractions on Wednesday night and went to the hospital at 5am Thursday.

 

"It actually went fast," she said.

"I guess once I started progressing, it went within 30 minutes."

 

Mrs Duggar said that each child was so different there are times when she feels like she knows nothing about parenting.

 

The family has been featured on several programs on cable television's Discovery Health Network.

 

The next television special, the Duggar Family Album, is scheduled to air next month.

Among the "fun facts" listed on Discovery Health Network's web page devoted to the Duggars: a baby has been born in every month except June; the Duggars have gone through an estimated 90,000 nappies and Michelle has been pregnant for 126 months - or 10.5 years - of her life.

 

Mr Duggar, 44, is a real estate-agent who served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002.

 

He was a candidate for the US Senate in 2002 but lost the ballot.

 

Mrs Duggar, 41, and her husband are politically conservative fundamentalist Christians.

They reportedly live debt-free.