Alright, so I’m the oldest in my family and my parents are really itching to tell everyone they are going to be grandparents, so here’s the news!

Duarte and I are really excited; I’m currently 9 weeks pregnant and if all goes normally, the baby will be due at the end of January.

FAQs:

How are you feeling? I felt fine until the beginning of week 7 and am now in a constant state of nausea. Hoping it goes away by the second trimester!

Was the pregnancy ‘planned’? Anyone who knows me well wouldn’t bother to ask that question! I’m a bit of a plan-aholic. We originally had planned to wait to have a child until we moved back overseas, but then we thought that since I have a much more flexible schedule being a grad student than I will when I’m teaching full-time again that now is a good time.

Are you still going to teach internationally? Yes, we always wanted to raise any children we have in an international/multicultural context where exposure to different languages and cultures is part of life from an early age.

What’s the strangest thing you’ve experienced so far? We went out to eat with Duarte’s family and I had ordered a sirloin burger with mushrooms. While eating the burger, I kept eyeing a side dish of cole slaw that my mother-in-law wasn’t eating. I’ve never liked cole slaw, but for some reason I just wanted to eat the cole slaw instead of the burger! Duarte happily finished off the burger for me.

I’m planning to start up a pregnancy/parenting blog, so when I do I’ll post an announcement here for anyone interested!

Tagged as: parenting, pregnancy, update from Heather