Jason Duggar’s Wife Reveals Surprising Reason They’re Waiting to Have Kids originally appeared on Parade.
Jason Duggar’s wife, Maddie Duggar, shared the surprising reason why they’re waiting to have kids.
While appearing on the Wednesday, August 13, episode of Jinger Duggar and husband Jeremy Vuolo’s “Jinger and Jeremy” podcast, Jason, 25, played a prank on his sister by pretending that he and Maddie, 21, were expecting their first child together.
“No, he does that to me all the time,” Maddie clarified. “We are not expecting at all! We are not trying to be expecting.”
After Jason asked the show’s listeners to “stop” saying the newlyweds were “trying to be expecting,” Maddie explained that they aren’t in a rush to become parents because she’s “trying to finish up school.”
The couple, who tied the knot in October 2024, said that they “love babies,” though they want to enjoy life as newlyweds before they have children.
“We love kids. We get ‘baby fever,’” Maddie explained. “But, I want to wait and I want to just enjoy this time. I can always get pregnant later on, Lord willing. Right now, we just want to chill.”
She then said that it’s important for them to settle into their lives as a married couple because their relationship is still relatively new. “We know each other, but we’re still getting to know each other [in the] first year of your marriage,” she said. “I’m going to wait until after school. I have one year of school left.”
The Duggars may be known for having kids young, though Maddie insisted she doesn’t see herself becoming a mom in the near future. “I graduate next May and I don’t want to worry about a baby before then! I think we’ve got some time … Immediately, no babies. No babies at all,” she said. “We just babysit and get humbled whenever we do babysit!”
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Jeremy, 37, then gave Maddie and Jason a glimpse into parenthood by telling them to “get [their] judgement” out now by watching “misbehaving children” in public places.
“Say things like, ‘We would never let our kids do that,’ ‘yes, sir,’ ‘no, ma’am,’ that kind of stuff because once you have the babies, you won’t be able to do that anymore,” Jeremy said. “Enjoy it because when you have the babies, [it ’s] a judgment-free zone.”
Jason agreed by telling his brother-in-law, “All that is out the window!”
Jason Duggar’s Wife Reveals Surprising Reason They’re Waiting to Have Kids first appeared on Parade on Aug 13, 2025
This story was originally reported by Parade on Aug 13, 2025, where it first appeared.