Jana Duggar expecting first child with Wissmann, due Jan 2026

Jana Duggar, the eldest daughter of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar and a longtime figure from the reality series 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On, is expecting her first child with husband Stephen Wissmann. The couple announced the news on Instagram, sharing a post that features photos of them embracing and highlighting Jana’s growing baby bump. The message says the baby is due in January 2026, and the couple says they are “counting down the days” to this new chapter in their lives. The timing follows roughly a year after their August 2024 wedding in Prairie Grove, Arkansas, a ceremony described as classic and elegant and attended by about 500 guests.

Jana, who is the second-oldest Duggar daughter alongside her twin John David, has spoken publicly in the past about the significance of marriage and family in the Duggar tradition. The couple became engaged in June 2024 and married later that year, with Jana relocating from her home state to Nebraska, where Wissmann is from. Their wedding brought together many members of the extended clan, including Jana’s sister Jessa Duggar Seewald serving as maid of honor and several other sisters participating as bridesmaids. In conversations...