Jessa Duggar is sharing how she first told her husband Ben Seewald that she’s pregnant with their seventh baby.

The 19 Kids and Counting alum, 33, and her husband Seewald, 31, appeared on a Wednesday, Oct. 28 episode of Matt and Abby Howard’s Unplanned Podcast and opened up about the news that they are expecting another baby together.

“We have six kids, and we’re actually expecting again. Six weeks pregnant with No. 7,” Jessa shared in the podcast. She explained that this baby was planned after the couple experienced an unexpected pregnancy with their sixth baby, son Eddie, who was born in July 2025.

When asked who brought up having another baby, Jessa shared that it was her.

“It’s always me,” she said. “I get baby fever way too soon. I’m like, ‘How can I have a newborn and have baby fever?’ When I said we should have a No. 7, [Seewald] was like, ‘Alright.’”

“She’s the one carrying this child,” said Seewald. “If she wants to have another one, if she wants to be a mom again, who am I to stand in the way of that?”

As for how she actually told her husband she’s pregnant again, Jessa said the news came in the form of a text message.

“I just texted him a photo of the pregnancy test, and then I talked to him six hours later,” she shared.

“I was golfing with her brother Jed, and I just happened to look down at my phone, and Jessa texted me as I’m sitting on the golf cart, and I was just like, ‘Wait, what?’ ” explained Seewald. He added that he immediately told Jessa’s dad and brothers.

Jessa and Ben share six kids: sons Spurgeon Elliot, 10; Henry Wilberforce, 9; George Augustine, 2; Edward Owen, 15 months; and daughters Ivy Jane, 7, and Fern Elliana, 5.

“When it comes to people saying negative opinions, I know this is not the case for everyone, but for me personally, I’ve never had anybody walk up to my face and be nasty,” Jessa said in a YouTube video titled “Baby #6 Q&A + My Morning Routine,” posted in May 2025. “I have heard a lot of rude and unnecessary comments, but generally those are just online.”

In her response, she also addressed a comment claiming that she and Seewald are “trying to follow in [her] mom’s footsteps.”

“I’m not going to have 19 kids, but honestly, my mom is my hero. I love her. I adore her [and] she is my role model in so many ways,” she said. “Her patience, her love, her gentleness [and] her kind speech. She is the golden example of a mother, in my opinion. So, when people say, ‘Do you want to be like your mother?’ I’m like, ‘Yes, please, Lord, help me.’ ”