Recently, Jill Duggar Dillard has revealed that she and her husband, Derick Dillard, use non-hormonal birth control.
In a new Q&A video posted to YouTube, the 29-year-old TV personality sat down with Derick for an open and honest conversation, sharing personal revelations with her fans.
Jill and Derick share two sons Samuel Scott, 3, and Israel David, 5.
The former Counting On star said, “We use birth control, but we prefer to use non-hormonal birth control methods because we don’t want to use anything that could potentially cause an abortion.”
“I think there are probably uses for hormonal birth control for like regulating things and stuff like that, but for us, we just want to be careful about that.”
“We’re more natural-minded and sometimes there can be more longer lasting effects from hormonal birth control and stuff like that so we just steer clear of those,″ she added. ″Eventually we want to have more kids and stuff — lord willing — so we don’t want to mess too much with all of that and potentially cause problems.”
Derick said, “We’ll probably stop using birth control whenever we want to get pregnant.”
The couple has always been open about some of their surprising stances on topics that are considered taboo by her family.
Last week, they revealed a few decisions that Jill made in recent years – such as chopping off her long locks, getting a tattoo, getting a nose ring, and participating in therapy.
Making a few personal changes, Jill said, “I think, like, therapy’s been really helpful. But also, we haven’t changed who we are as people. As Christians, we want to have the Bible to be our standard. But I think like just growing as people and the whole ‘leave and cleave’ thing, which I know we’ve talked about before, has been helpful.”
The pair also revealed that they would want to have more children in the future.
Jill said, “Yes, like Derick said, we would love more kids if God chooses to give us more. And secondly, how many? I don’t know. I don’t know that we have a number. Probably not 20 kids.”
“But again, we’re not going to rule anything out,” she added. “If God has us run an orphanage or something, then maybe we’d have more than that! I don’t know. So we’ll see.” Jill went on to say, “Derick’s mom was adopted, so adoption’s always had like a place in our heart — a special place in our heart. But we’ll see. We’re not saying no, never or anything yet.”
