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Someone in the Duggar family always has to be pregnant. That’s the rule. Just two weeks after Jill Duggar-Dillard welcomed her first child (son Israel) with husband Derick Dillard, Jessa Duggar-Seewald has announced her first pregnancy. Jessa and Ben Seewald married last November… and then nothing. I kept waiting for the pregnancy announcement, because that’s how the Duggars roll. They get knocked up right away, preferably on the honeymoon. But Jessa was the “wild child” and she didn’t get pregnant right away. Instead, she French kissed her husband in photos (like a wanton harlot) and was even rumored to be on the Pill. Well, I guess Ben finally put his foot down and demanded that Jessa get pregnant, because here we go.

“We’re expecting!” Jessa Duggar, 22, tells PEOPLE. “We are so excited. The due date is November first, our wedding anniversary.” Adds Ben, 19, “We are looking forward to being parents.”

The third daughter born to Jim Bob, 49, and Michelle Duggar, 48, and her husband, the oldest of seven Seewald children, revealed their happy news as Jessa enters her second trimester.

“I am feeling pretty good,” says Jessa. “The morning sickness was different every day. It’s getting better, but I’m still hanging on to the heartburn. And I don’t have any super-serious food cravings.”

Before church one Sunday morning, Jessa says she took a pregnancy test and brought it in to show Ben. “I said, ‘Hey Ben, guess what? Yeah, you’re a dad.’ We couldn’t believe it,” Jessa says. “We are so excited. We have started talking baby names. It is one of those things that is so special, picking a name for a baby.”

The couple revealed their plans to adopt in an exclusive at-home interview – and now say their plans haven’t changed just because they are expecting a child.

“Our hearts haven’t changed on adoption,” Jessa says. (The agency the couple has contacted requires prospective parents to be married for two years before adopting.) “We are still making plans.”

But Ben says that they are taking time to enjoy their happy news.

“We are trying to take it one day at a time,” he says. “We pray every night that God helps us be good parents. We are getting advice from other parents.”

Jessa’s older sister Jill Dillard, 23, and her husband, Derick, 26, welcomed son Israel David on April 6 after a 70-hour labor. Jill, a student midwife, “has all the knowledge and training,” Jessa says.

“I am not comparing, not worrying about what could happen, we are just getting prepared,” Jessa says. “I think having this first year together to share our lives, just the two of us, has been special. We are definitely excited to be parents.”

[From People]

So she’s about three months along already. So she did get knocked up about three months after her wedding. Which is no big deal, except in the Duggar family, where “waiting a few months to enjoy married life” is absolutely frowned upon. I also think it’s interesting that Jessa is still interested in adoption, and that she still believes that they’ll adopt once they’ve been married for two years. In any case, congrats to Jessa and Ben. And good luck, baby Duggar-Seewald (you’re going to need all the luck in the world).

Windy but beautiful evening on Tybee Island beach just before sunset! ??????

A photo posted by Jessa Seewald (@jessaseewald) on Mar 5, 2015 at 3:50pm PST

Photos courtesy of Jessa’s Instagram & Facebook.
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