Jill Duggar and her husband Eric Dillard buried their stillborn daughter.
The couple, who announced they had lost their “beautiful little girl” during the fourth month of pregnancy, organized a funeral for the little one.
“Isla Marie, our little girl. We will love you forever and keep you in our hearts until we hold you in heaven. Buried 4/19/2024,” the grieving parents shared Tuesday, alongside a photo of a white box covered in white and pink flowers and a stuffed rabbit on a table in their church sanctuary .
A vase of pink roses and carnations was placed nearby.
The service’s program featured the photo used by Jill, 32, and Derick, 35, to announce the pregnancy loss, with the baby’s name Isla Marie Dillard and the words “Planted on Earth to Bloom in Heaven” on the front .
Jill Duggar, 32, and her husband Eric Dillard, 35, buried their stillborn daughter
“Isla Marie, our little girl. We will love you forever and keep you in our hearts until we hold you in heaven. Laid to rest on 04/19/2024″, the grieving parents shared on Tuesday
The interior of the program included the first four verses of the 23rd Psalm.
At the bottom of the page they added the meaning of her name: Isla “Devoked to God” and Mary “Wished for child and beloved”.
At the post-funeral gathering at their home in Arkansas, the couple set a table with books and toys they planned to share with Isla, had she lived.
The couple are parents to Israel, nine, Samuel, six, and Frederick, 21 months.
Both men relied on their faith to get through.
They shared more Bible verses and a sweet card from devastated Jill who wrote: “I carried you every second of your life. And I will love you every second.
A pink heart-shaped cake was placed on the refreshment table.
They gave the other mourners a farewell memento, a paper heart filled with flower seeds that they hoped would sprout in Isla’s memory.
The couple shared photos from the funeral program for their stillborn daughter in the fourth month of pregnancy.
During a post-funeral gathering at their home, the couple shared other Bible verses and a note Duggar wrote to their daughter that read, “I carried you every second of your life.” And I will love you every second of my life’
To the mourners a farewell memento, a paper heart filled with flower seeds that they hoped would sprout in memory of Isla.
Jill announced she suffered a heartbreaking stillbirth earlier this month, when she was four months pregnant.
She and her husband wrote an emotional message to share the news with their fans.
“It is with heavy hearts that we announce the stillbirth of our beautiful baby girl, Isla Marie Dillard. Jill was 4 months pregnant (due in August) when we discovered our baby had died in utero,” they wrote. writing.
Duggar and Dillard added that they were especially excited about the prospect of welcoming a new member to their family.
“From the moment we found out we were pregnant, we couldn’t wait to meet our baby. Isla was very loved from the start and her 3 big brothers were very excited to introduce her to their world,” they wrote.
The couple concluded by thanking their longtime fans for their continued support as they dealt with the stillbirth of their child.
“We appreciate your prayers as we continue to grieve and heal from the loss of our little Isla Marie,” they wrote.
Duggar and Dillard first met in 2011, and they married in June 2014.
Jill announced she suffered a heartbreaking stillbirth earlier this month, when she was four months pregnant.
Duggar previously suffered a miscarriage in 2021 with son River Bliss
The couple started a family with the birth of their son Israel, nine, in 2014, and they welcomed two more boys named Samuel, six, and Frederick, one, in 2017 and 2022, respectively.
Jill and her family have become estranged from the Duggars in recent years and have not spoken to her parents, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar since her memoir was published in 2023.
Jim, Michelle and their 19 children starred on the TLC series 19 and Counting from 2008 to 2015.
Duggar previously suffered a miscarriage in 2021 with son River Bliss.
Last year, Jill spoke candidly about how she nearly died giving birth to her son Samuel after he, then an infant, suffered a stroke during labor.
She revealed the harrowing story of the birth of her second child in her explosive memoir, titled Counting the Cost.
She explained how she was rushed into surgery for an emergency C-section after a ruptured uterus before discovering the newborn had also suffered a brain haemorrhage.
Newborn Samuel, who was “unconscious at birth,” was transferred to a NICU at another hospital and Jill didn’t get to meet him for the first time until four days later.
Duggar, 32, who grew up on camera on the TLC reality show 19 Kids and Counting and other iterations of the show, including Counting On, has been estranged from her parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar for several years .
There was no mention of Isla’s loss on the Duggar Family Instagram account.
In her book, Counting the Cost, Duggar explained the “secrets and manipulations” that went on behind the scenes on the show and why they left the religious organization, Institute in Basic Life Principles, in which she and Dillard, 35 years, had been indoctrinated. .
The couple also told their story in the documentary Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets.
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