I am watching the Duggar family on the Today show and my uterus hurts. This 19-member family just announced that they have a new baby on the way - bringing the total number of siblings to 18.

This does not compute with me on many levels. I truly cannot wrap my head around their family dynamic. As an only child and a mother of one, my entire life experience is different than any member of this family.

When the Duggar household sits down to dinner they are sharing a meal with more people than I can count in my family, and I am including cousins.

As a new momma, I have to wonder how Michelle Duggar does it. It’s been a while since she was a new momma, but she is regularly the mother of a newborn and has raised, or is raising, more kids than a small day care center.

On their Web site, I learned that the Duggars are licensed real estate agents, host and facilitate the Jim Sammon’s Financial Freedom Seminar and are devoted Christians.

After an early miscarriage, they asked God to “bless them with as many children as He saw fit in His timing.”

Blessed indeed.

But 17 kids and number 18 on the way? I still cannot imagine how that momma must feel - how her body rebounds.

One thing I suspect, though, is that Momma Duggar gets more cards and kisses on Mother’s Day than all the other moms.