Crazy. TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting” couple, Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar, have announced they are expecting their 20th child. Yes, TWENTIETH! Duggar mama is three and a half months pregnant and due in April 2012.

“We are so excited,” says Michelle, 45. “I feel good. I am past the sickness stage now.”

“Michelle is probably in better health now than she was 10 years ago,” says Jim Bob, 46. “She has been getting on an elliptical for about an hour a day and is very careful of what she eats.”

Jim Bob and Michelle’s 19th child, Josie Duggar, born on December 10, 2009, had to fight for her life since she was born at only 25 weeks, weighing 1lb., 6oz., after Michelle was diagnosed with preeclampsia. Baby Josie is now healthy and about to become a big sister to her 19th unborn sibling.

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“It is a miracle. Josie is the most energetic, busy little almost-2-year-old,” says Michelle. “She is short, and yet she can keep up with the big girls and she thinks she is just as big as they are. We are amazed at what she can do.”

45 year-old Michelle is taking extra precautions, eating healthy and napping regularly, under the care of a high-risk pregnancy doctor. Jim Bob actually believes his wife is in the best shape of her life, and the two are not afraid of possible complications because their kids mean everything to them.

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“We are just going to do the best we can,” says Michelle. “I am taking a nap every day, and we are just taking good care.”

Jim Bob agrees: “If we had lived by fear after Michelle had preeclampsia after her second delivery, we would have missed out on all our wonderful blessings,” he says. “So many of her pregnancies have gone extremely well.”

When are kids too many to even remember their names? I guess Michelle and Jim Bob want to find out the answer to my question. They are proud parents to Joshua, 23 (who is married to Anna, 23 and has two children, Mackynzie, 2 and Michael, 4 months), twins Jana and John-David, 21; Jill, 20; Jessa, 19; Jinger, 17; Joseph, 16; Josiah, 15; Joy-Anna, 14; twins Jedidiah and Jeremiah, 12; Jason, 11; James, 10; Justin, 8; Jackson, 7; Johanna, 6; Jennifer, 4; and Jordyn, 3, and Josie.

Congratulations to the whole Duggar family!

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