With their third grandchild on the way, it’s no surprise that Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar have babies on the brain!

The proud parents of 19 revealed their plans to expand their brood even more, and the duo are considering adoption! “We are open to the idea of adoption. We are praying about it, and we will see what God has in store. Love for children has been placed on our hearts,” said the matriarch of the bunch, Michelle.

Michelle spoke candidly about the possibility of adoption to People, saying, “The kids are definitely pushing towards wanting us to open our home up to another child or more. They see how much we have been blessed with and how little so many children have and they want to share. We tell our children that would have to be something that is God’s will for our family, and we will see if it is. Our children love children, and we all do.”

Mama also added that they’re not considering adoption as their only option, but the parents are prepared to do whatever is best, saying, “We are open to whatever is in store. It doesn’t really matter whether I would have another child or we would adopt, but we want to approach it with an open heart. We have friends that have adopted children who are a great influence in our lives, and we have talked about their experiences. So it’s something we’ve considered.”

Michelle famously miscarried a daughter in 2010 — and they were planning on naming baby girl Jubilee. When asked about the future, she said, “We have to know for sure that is what God wants for us to do. When he gives us a child [through pregnancy], there is no doubt in our minds that is what He wants, but when it comes to adoption, we would have to know for sure that was His will.”

Whatever course they choose, we wish mom, dad and all their brothers and sisters a safe, healthy and happy pregnancy!

Do you think the Duggars should try for another?

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If you’ve read the parenting books — or seen a few episodes of Grey’s Anatomy — you’ve probably heard that skin-to-skin contact (a.k.a. kangaroo care) is good for newborns.

Holding baby directly to your skin is said to help regulate baby’s heart rate, breathing and body temperature; calm and relax both mom and baby; help preterm babies fight infection, grow and develop better; and promote bonding. So basically, it’s all-around an awesome idea.

And Rosie O’Donnell seems to be a big fan of skin-to-skin contact! The funny woman recently posted a photo of herself holding her two-week-old baby girl, Dakota, using a special babywearing shirt. “NuRoo Baby… a wonderful baby carrier with skin-on-skin contact. Love it,” wrote Rosie.

Basically, the NuRoo is a baby-carrier-meets-shirt, and we’re loving how it can keep your hands free to do other things while you’re snuggling with baby. (You might feel like an actual kangaroo, but there’s nothing wrong with that!) It’s available for $60 at NuRoo.com.

What do you think of the NuRoo — would you use it?

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“What about their real mother?”

This is a question that many adoptive mothers hear on a regular basis when the subject of their child’s adoption is brought up. It’s normally never said in the context of hate or maliciousness, but as an adoptive mother I tend to cringe every time I hear it. Why? Because I am my children’s real mother.

Yes, I did not give birth to my children but that doesn’t make me their “real” Mother. I ponder on this often about what defines a “real” mother? Is it just someone who gives birth to child? Is it blood that bonds us to our children? Or is it love, care and support?

My two older children are both adopted, and my youngest is biological. I often wondered before the birth of my youngest son if I would feel any different if I were to bear my own child. After the birth of Tyler I learned that blood did not connect me to my children, but our love did.

Are you an adopted parent? What comments from other people have offended you?

You may know Bill Horn and Scout Masterson, “The Guncles,” from Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood. They’re the adorably warm couple who, as the first gay parents on reality television, gave the world its first glimpse into what parenting as two dads is really like. Bill and Scout chatted with us candidly about the terrible twos, their funniest dad moments and their (free!) adoption mentoring program, Hold My Hand.

The Bump: Simone turned two in June. Have you experienced the “terrible twos” yet?

Scout: She loves practical jokes and trying to trick us, so we’re very careful about falling into those traps. When we put her down at night, about an hour later, she’ll get up and say, “My tummy hurts,” and, “I need to go to Daddies’ bed.” The first time she did it, we said of course! Then she asked us to kiss it to make it better and proceeded to lay down with her arms behind her head and said, “Ooooh, so much better!”

Bill [laughing]: Yeah, we caught on to that one quickly. Going through these terrible twos, we say, “Use your words.” One of the most annoying things is when she goes from 0 to 60 over the fact that she can’t reach her juice. We don’t want to make a huge deal out of [the tantrum], but we definitely want to put the kibosh on it.

TB: It’s hard to know sometimes that it’s not actually a nightmare or a tummy ache!

Bill:A tip for parents: Don’t be afraid to put the kibosh on something you know is wrong. I’d wake up at 4 a.m. and she’d be at the side of my bed, screaming, “Let me in the bed!” One night I went to bed snuggling our Chihuahua, Jessica, and when I woke up at 5 a.m., I was spooning with Simone.

TB: Do you guys have good cop/bad cop roles in parenting?

Bill: Scout could disagree, but I think I’m probably more of the bad cop.

Scout: I do have Bill put Simone to bed. He does the final shutting off of the lights, and he always says she’s going to hate him for that. When I do it, I find myself in the “Okay, what else do you need?” mode.

TB: How do you guys split up responsibilities at home?

Scout: In our home, we pick up where the other one leaves off and keep everything moving forward. We don’t leave something sit and say, “That’s your chore.” We have my mom as our “granny nanny” who comes a few days a week while we’re working.

TB: How do you make time for each other now that you’re parents?

Scout: Well, we work together…so we see each other plenty! We’re on the show regularly and out there publicly doing events together, which is just the two of us, so there is a break.

Bill: Honestly, we’ve found we’d much rather do something new and exciting as a family.

TB: Simone has her own fashion blog! Is there anything Simone loves to wear that you can’t stand, or vice versa?

Scout: She has an opinion about everything she wears, and she’s very fashionable. She won’t wear sneakers without pink in them. Shopping for shoes is hard because we’re not into the light-up shoes and shoes with 75 colors of glitter on them.

Bill: It’s been funny to see her gravitate toward pink. We didn’t push it or do a lot of princess stuff as a baby, but she’s really gravitated toward it. We have our own dad sign language when we’re in a store shopping, where I point to Scout and he’ll block the shoes before she can see them.

TB: That’s so funny! Okay, I want to talk about Hold My Hand, your adoption mentoring program. Can you tell me more about what you guys do and how people can get your help?

Scout:It started when we went through the adoption process with Simone [three and a half years ago] on Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood. We found ourselves getting a lot of emails and questions from people in the [adoption] process. We launched Hold My Hand officially last November during adoption month. Since then, we’ve helped about 100 families! We handle everything from helping people assess their situations and get the process moving to helping pick things out in a nursery. We’ve gotten emails in the middle of the night with the first pictures of adopted babies we helped place, which is really exciting. We have our amazing daughter now, and we want to help others make their dreams come true too.

TB: Do you have different advice for same-sex couples adopting, or is it the same process that everyone goes through?

Bill: Generally, the overarching process is the same, except there are different rules in different states that are more accommodating to gay couples than others. You just have to do your research and know what the law is and what the hurdles will be.

Scout: We’ve helped, and love to help, all kinds of families. Anyone who reaches out to us, we will help them. Same-sex couples, single moms, families who have had other children naturally and want to expand their families, single gay dads…all kinds of families. We’re starting the process of adopting again, so we’re right there with them.

TB: We all go through similar things as parents, and from what I can tell, your family is just like mine, but are there things that are unique to being two dads?

Scout: Our home is a lot like everyone else’s. Now that Simone is in school, we’ve definitely had to explain she has two dads and other people have a dad and a mom. But another classmate of hers has two moms. That’s one of the reasons we love doing a reality show, is that we get to show people we’re just like everyone else. There are examples of gay families on television now that are so exaggerated, that I’m glad that as a reality-based show, we’re able to show the way it really is.

Bill: I think there are two things that are really different for us. One is some of the reactions we get from the outside. We get questions like, “Who’s the female and who’s the male?” Most of the time, it’s coming from a good place, but it can be hurtful. Also, one of our biggest hurdles is potty training. Obviously, she can’t go to the ladies’ room by herself, and when men go to the bathroom, they’re pigs [so we don’t want to take her in there]. So we got this little portable potty that pops up that she can use.

Scout: We get irate when we go to a place and they don’t either have a changing table in the men’s restroom or a have family restroom. It’s not about us being gay parents; it affects all dads. The message is to women that it’s your job to change the baby — it’s 2012, and our families are operating in all kinds of ways.

TB: Besides your must-have on-the-go potty, are there any other baby gear items that you can’t live without?

Scout: I don’t know what we’d do without our Origami stroller.

Bill: We’d have to fold and unfold the stroller ourselves. Who wants to do that?

Scout: Well, yeah! And we use Skip Hop products every day. Simone walks into the school with her Skip Hop backpack and is currently packing her Skip Hop Zoo luggage for our weekend getaway.

TB: What’s been your funniest dad moment?

Scout: We were at Target last week and we were looking for a new kids’ shampoo. She’s decided her shampoo needs to smell like strawberries. So I’m looking at the section and I’m saying, “I don’t know, Simone, I’m not seeing anything like that,” trying to get her over to the Burt’s Bees ones. So she said, really loudly, “Bend over!” I said, “What?” She screamed, “I SAID, BEND OVER!!” Everybody in the section was looking at us.

Bill: I gave Simone water at bedtime and she said, “I don’t want water. I don’t like water. It sucks.” I have to watch what I say!

To follow The Guncles, find them on Twitter at @TheBillHorn and @ScoutMasterson. For more information on Hold My Hand, click here.

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Hello, Bumpies! Thank you so much for reading this and joining in on my infertility journey. Let’s catch you up, shall we?

First of all, I’m Melanie. I’ve been married to Brad for just over a year and while our first year was challenging at times, we faced those challenges together. The largest challenge came six months after we started trying for a baby.

I discontinued my Mirena IUD in October 2011, a month after we were married. We began actively trying for a child in January, under the advice of my doctor. I started taking prenatal vitamins and we began trying to conceive with high hopes. Six months came and went with nothing. My cycles are a little irregular, so we thought we were just having difficulty getting the timing just right. In July, we still had no positive results, so my doctor ordered blood work for me and semen analysis for Brad.

My bloodwork came back a little low and the preliminary thought was that I might not be ovulating. Our hearts sank. They sank even lower when we got Brad’s results — zero sperm. His final diagnosis: CBAVD (Congenital Bilateral Absence of the Vas Deferens). In layman’s terms, my husband has no exit ramp for sperm. They’re trapped.

Months of diagnosis and multiple doctors led us to this: In-vitro fertilization (IVF) with intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). It’s our only option to have biological children. Brad’s condition means that his sperm don’t get a chance to mature fully, so they can’t swim. The ICSI part means that the doctors will physically place one of Brad’s sperm in one of my eggs to to make our babies. Don’t get me wrong — we’re not trying for twins. The doctor will only implant one embryo on the first go-round and we’ll freeze the rest in case we need or want them later.

Right now, we’re coordinating services with Brad’s urologist and my IVF doctor to extract Brad’s sperm and prepare me for IVF (extracting eggs, fertilizing eggs, implanting embryos). We’re also working towards getting approved for adoption. Brad and I had talked about adoption even before learning of our infertility issues. We feel that, as a result of our diagnoses, we need to start the process now. It’s usually a four- to six-month process of parent-training, home studies and background checks before we can be approved to adopt.

I know this is a very quick intro. Please keep checking back to because I’ll post more on our diagnoses and what they mean for us, as well as challenges we’re facing with doctors and insurances. If you’ve got any specific questions, please leave them in the comments. I’d love to answer them for you!

Have you gone through fertility treatments or adoption? What were your biggest struggles and how did you get through them?

Congratulations to actress Katherine Heigl and singer-songwriter Josh Kelley, who we’ve just learned adopted a second daughter! The couple already has one daughter, Naleigh, who they adopted from South Korea in 2007. No other details have been released about the second child or the adoption process.

Recently, Katherine opened up about Naleigh’s adoption, saying, “Anyone who doesn’t have experience with adoption wonders, does love for a child come through DNA? My mother had biological children and an adopted child and said it made absolutely no difference. They’re yours. You love them the moment they’re put into your arms. Josh had to learn that, but he was so gracious and accepting.”

At the time, she also said she’d love to adopt again. Guess she got her wish! All the best to the family of four.

What do you think of Katherine and Josh’s news?

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Check out what’s buzzing around the Internet this week:

Mom discusses nudity at home — The New York Times

Hilary Duff Shows First Photo of Son, Luca Cruz — PEOPLE

Parents Are Less likely to Take Their Daughters Outside to Play — Time

Maternity clothes: Is tighter better? — Lil Sugar

Guiliana Rancic considers adoption and surrogacy — MSNBC