You can't really understand a country until you have a baby there. I've (unintentionally) had two babies in Paris and one in New York. It might sound a touch glamorous, but as anyone who has given birth will know, glamour is the most absent part of childbirth. Having a baby was something I thought about long before I went ahead and did it, but in the end, it was so foreign and so different to how I could have ever imagined it. My husband and I moved to Paris soon after we were married.