Jessa Duggar pregnancy update: new photos updated as due date nears

In a few weeks, Jessa Duggar and Ben Seewald will become parents. The couple is expecting their first child on Nov.1 and will also be celebrating their first wedding anniversary on the said date. This week, the "19 Kids and Counting" star took to Instagram and Facebook to share a new pregnancy update, which shows Jessa at 36 weeks and 4 days into her pregnancy.

In the black and white shot uploaded on Thursday, Oct. 8, the star is wearing a long-sleeved printed shirt and has one hand on her baby bump. Some of Jessa's followers on the social media sites noted that her due date must be near as she appears to be carrying lower than in previous weeks.

On Friday, she posted a picture of some baby outfits, with one ensemble for a baby girl on the left and another for a baby boy on the right. Jessa captioned the shot, "Jinger picked out some pretty adorable outfit options for #BabySeewald! Which do you think we'll be putting to use? Right or left?"

Since learning about her pregnancy, Jessa has been very active on social media and has posted a lot of updates, to the delight of her fans. Last month, Jessa and Ben posted a poll on their blog and asked their fans to guess if they were having a boy, a girl, or twins. They also welcomed suggestions for baby names, and on Sept. 29, the couple revealed the poll results on their blog.

"We received over 110,000 votes and some wonderful name suggestions," the couple said on their blog. More than 58,000 voted that they are having a girl, while 23,158 fans said that they are going to have a boy. Almost 18,000 people voted for "Boy/Girl twins" while more than 8,000 voted for twin girls, and 3.096 cast their votes for twin boys.

For baby boy names, the names Luke, Zachary, Sawyer, Noah and Benjamin made it to the top 5, while Savannah, Sarah, Olivia, Rachel, and Hope made it to the top 5 for girl names.

The couple has yet to announce the gender of their baby.

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