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TLC has announced they are making at least two to three specials featuring Jill and Jessa Duggar
The specials will follow Jessa in the final weeks of her pregnancy and Jill as she moved to Central America for missionary work with her family
'We're going to be preparing to welcome this little one into our lives,' said Jessa

By Heidi Parker and Chris Spargo For Dailymail.com

Published: 11:14 EST, 28 September 2015 | Updated: 19:03 EST, 28 September 2015

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Jessa Duggar is thrilled to be back on TLC.

The 19 Kids And Counting vet told Entertainment Tonight that she thinks working again with sister Jill and their respective husbands Derrick and Ben for their two to three new shows will be 'great.' Brother Josh - who they said molested them when they were children - will not be featured in the new programs.

'We're excited. We're looking forward to this,' the 22-year-old Jessa, who's pregnant with her first child, told ET. 'We're going to be doing some filming, preparing to welcome this little one into our lives.'

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Happy to be back: Jessa Duggar is thrilled to be back on TLC. The 19 Kids And Counting vet told Entertainment Tonight that she thinks working again with sister Jill and their respective husbands Derrick and Ben for their two to three new shows will be 'great'

She also talked about life with a young child.

'I know it's going to change our lives dramatically,' she told attendees at the Southern Woman's Show in Orlando on Saturday.

'It's going to be huge. [Ben and I] were just talking logistics of travel. Right now, we packed all of our stuff in a little suitcase for this weekend trip, and I was like, man, when you have a baby! Our friends have been warning us, You're going to have car seats and strollers and a huge bag for all the baby stuff - diapers, and whatever, extra change of clothes in case something happens.'

Plot: The specials will follow Jessa in the final weeks of her pregnancy (left) and Jill as she moved to Central America for missionary work with her family (right)

No more: The Duggar family's reality show 19 Kids and Counting was cancelled in the wake of Josh's molestation scandal

'What we will be following in these specials is Jessa preparing for her first child and we'll be watching Jill preparing to make a major move to Central America with her family, which we know is something our audience will be interested in,' said TLC Executive Vice President and General Manager Nancy Daniels.

The project, Daniels said, came together quickly 'after talking with the girls and understanding that this was something they wanted to do.

'We know that our audience is really excited about what's been going on with Jill and Jessa as they move into young adulthood,' said Daniels.

'And now they're both at the precipice of big changes. With what was happening in their lives in the next few months, it felt like now is the time (for the specials), and we got going pretty quickly.'

It was a source speaking on the condition of anonymity who revealed that Josh would not be part of these new specials.

Ready to be a mom: She also talked about life with a young child. 'I know it's going to change our lives dramatically,' she told attendees at the Southern Woman's Show in Orlando on Saturday

Trouble: These new specials will not feature Josh (above with wife Anna in February) who molested sisters Jill and Jessa as a teenager when they were minors

Opening up: Jessa and Jill described being the victims of Josh's molestation in an emotional interview earlier this summer (above)

It was revealed in May that the 27-year-old had molested five minors when he was a teenager, including four of his sisters.

Jill and Jessa later came forward in an emotional interview with Megyn Kelly on Fox News revealing that they were two of the victims of their older brother's sexual assaults.

The girls revealed in that interview that they did not know they had been molested until their parents explained what happened to them and sent their son away.

‘I was like, shocked… OK, that is strange,’ said Jessa, who was 9 or 10-years-old at the time.

‘I didn’t know what happened until my parents told me.’

Jill, who was 12 when the inappropriate touching took place, recalled feeling ‘sad' and ‘shocked’ at the revelation.

Best friends: It seems likely all four of the oldest Duggar girls will appear on the special as they are so close (l to r: Jessa, Jinger, Jill and Janna)

‘This is my older brother whom I love, a lot,’ she said she remembered feeling.

The two sisters largely downplayed what went on between themselves and their older brother, calling the inappropriate touching ‘subtle’ and 'mild.'

‘It wasn’t like a horror story or this terrible thing,’ Jessa insisted in the interview, as both siblings stressed that the two of them and the rest of their family, including Josh, had dealt with the trauma and put it behind them a long time ago.

Uncertain: There is no word if parents Jim Bob and Michelle will appear on the specials (above in June)

Jessa also pointed out that she know 'so many girls who go through things way worse.'

In the wake of this interview, TLC cancelled the family's reality show 19 Kids And Counting, but commissioned a special called Breaking The Silence to raise awareness about child sexual abuse, which featured the two girls.

'They thought it was an important issue, and they showed an incredible amount of courage in sharing their story,' said Daniels.

'We were struck by that courage, and by how they are moving forward. Our audience continues to be engaged with what's going on in their lives.

'There's no doubt it's been a tough few months on the family, and we've obviously been in close contact with them as they've been going through it.'

TLC has not revealed if any other family members will be featured in these new specials, though it is likely that Janna and Jinger Duggar will also be a part of the new programs.

The four sisters are incredibly close and even wrote a book together in 2014 - Growing Up Duggar: It's All About Relationships.

The specials could also pave the way for the next Duggar wedding following reports that Jinger Duggar has begun courting family friend Lawson Bates, whose family also has a reality show about their 19 children - Bringing Up Bates.