Thank you all for your excitement over our baby news! Needless to say, we are pretty darn excited too. We have loved every minute of getting to make the announcement to different groups of family and friends in person, but we’ve noticed a trend of everyone asking the same questions.  Don’t get me wrong for a second, I will gladly talk baby with you (even if it’s the same questions for the millionth time!), but we wanted to answer some of those questions for those of you who are still in the dark. Let’s get to it, shall we?

When are you due?
Baby’s due date is has been given as both March 28th and March 31st, although by my estimation it could be a whole week later than that.  Truthfully and realistically, I’m expecting baby to be born up to a week late, which would give us an Easter 2015 baby.  I use March 31st, the first official due date we were given, as the standard for keeping track of baby week by week.

Where will baby be born?
Baby will be born in Thailand at Samitivej Hospital. We’ve been there for a couple of appointments already and feel very comfortable with every part of the experience. While my Thai (especially right before we left BKK, not so much today’s out-of-practice ability) is pretty decent, I wanted a doctor who spoke English. My worst nightmare would be nodding along to a long set of instructions only to find I nodded over a key word that I didn’t understand and not be able to ask what it was.

Will baby be a Thai citizen?
Nope, but that would be pretty great wouldn’t it?

What’s the baby’s gender? Will you find out?
While we are far enough into the pregnancy to find out baby’s gender, it was too early at the last appointment, and, like I mentioned above, our doctor is in Thailand so we will have to wait until we return.

Do you have names picked out?
We sure do. We have a handful of girl names we like quite a bit, but are up for suggestions for boys names. I don’t think we want to share those ideas on the blog, but we’ll definitely tell you the top contenders in person so feel free to ask. Once we pin down names we may not share until baby is born, so if you are curious I’d suggest not dawdling.

Was this planned?
This question usually catches us off guard but we understand why some are still curious to ask. Burke and I haven’t subscribed to a typical married life yet, so really it makes sense that we’d continue to do things on the same trajectory. That’s not to say we don’t expect things to change like mad, but lots of babies live in Thailand (we think, although it’s rare to see them!) so why not ours.