Concealing the truth from Chris, who was thousands of miles away, was one challenge, but hiding it from her children was another. Natasha had to persuade her kids that nothing out of the ordinary was happening. “When my eldest daughter started noticing, I just said I was getting fat,” Natasha joked afterward.
Then, there was her own impatience to contend with. Natasha was incredibly excited and could hardly keep the secret to herself. On more than one occasion, she felt the urge to call or email her husband to reveal the big surprise. Nonetheless, she managed to restrain herself time and time again.