Counting On's Joy-Anna Duggar and Austin Forsyth Welcome Third Child, a Son

Joy-Anna Forsyth (née Duggar) and husband Austin Forsyth, stars of Counting On, have welcomed their third child. “He’s here!” Joy, 25, announced on Instagram on Friday, May 19. “Thank you all for praying … Mama and baby are recovering well.”

The couple already has two children, son Gideon and daughter Evelyn Mae. They discovered they were expecting their third child while on vacation in Alaska in September 2022.

In their announcement video posted on YouTube the following month, Joy said, “I think I might be pregnant. We’ve been trying. I’m really, really excited if we are. Hopefully, it’s positive. Austin is in the other room, so I’m gonna video our reveal together just to see.”

Joy-Anna was surprised to learn that baby No. 3 was a boy at their November 2022 gender reveal party. “I am completely shocked,” Joy said in a YouTube video of the event. “A hundred percent thought that it was a girl. Convinced myself that it was a girl. Austin thought that it was a girl.”

The couple tied the knot in May 2017, after publicly announcing their courtship the previous November. Nine months after their wedding, Joy gave birth to the couple’s first child, son Gideon, in February 2018. After suffering a devastating miscarriage halfway through her second pregnancy in 2019, daughter Evelyn was born in August 2020.

“You know, over the years, I have just been watching and I really admire her heart for the Lord and her character. She’s such a diligent worker. She gets all the younger siblings working. She’s a good delegator,” Austin said of Joy. “And then, of course, her beauty.”

“I’m really looking forward to the journey of this pregnancy and all the different stages it will bring,” Austin said of baby No. 3. “It’s really exciting, and I feel so blessed to be a dad! We are beyond thankful!”