In the Jill and Jessa: Counting On episode “Love and Loss,” while Jessa, Lauren, Kendra and Jana go head-to-head to create possible groom’s cakes for John and Abbie’s wedding, Josiah and Lauren suffer a miscarriage. The young couple were preparing to go out of town for a friend’s wedding when Lauren experienced severe cramping. When she went to the bathroom she said, “And right there was the baby. Gone.” She was hoping it was a bad nightmare. “It was the worst day of my life.”
When asked by a producer if she was concerned about announcing the pregnancy so early, Lauren said: “Honestly, I am so glad that we told our whole family that we were expecting, that they could help Si (Josiah) and I through this time. We couldn’t have done it without their support.” She said she and Si cried together and “wrote letters to our baby and made a little box of special memories” which included the pregnancy test and she took one picture pregnant which she had printed. With tears in her eyes, Lauren says, “My comfort is that by baby is with Jesus and that I one day will see my baby.” Jill and Jessa: Counting On airs Mondays at 9 pm on TLC.
