Could another baby be on the way in Hope Valley? With Nathan and Faith’s romance heating up, Hearties can’t help but have theories that Faith is also pregnant on When Calls the Heart, and they may be onto something.
When Calls the Heart is Hallmark Channel‘s drama series following Elizabeth Thatcher, a young teacher accustomed to high-society life, who moves to a small mining town in Canada known as Coal Valley, which is now known as Hope Valley. Faith Carter, a nurse from Elizabeth’s hometown who now works in Hope Valley, was introduced in When Calls the Heart Season 2. She dates Carson shepherd, a doctor in Hope Valley, from Season 4 to Season 8. In Season 9, Faith starts dating Nathan grant, Elizabeth’s ex and another resident of Hope Valley.
If Faith was pregnant on When Calls the Heart, her pregnancy would follow fellow Hope Valley resident Rosemary LeVeaux Coulter, who learns that she’s pregnant in Season 9 and welcomes her first child with her husband, Leland Coulter, in Season 10. They name the baby Marigold—or “Goldie” for short—after Rosemary’s mother. The baby’s middle name is Elizabeth after her godmother, Elizabeth Thatcher.
Could Faith be joining Rosemary as another new mom in Hope Valley? Read on for if Faith is really pregnant in When Calls the Heart Season 10 and what the actress who plays her has said about those Nathan baby theories.
Is Faith pregnant in When Calls the Heart Season 10?
Is Faith pregnant in When Calls the Heart Season 10? The answer is no, at least not yet. However, the actress who plays her, Andrea Brooks, was pregnant with her second child while filming the 10th season of When Calls the Heart.
In an interview with TV Fanatic in June 2023, Brooks, who has played Faith Carter since Season 2, revealed that she was nine months pregnant by the time she finished filming When Calls the Heart Season 10. “Because there’s been a bit more of a wait this year, the anticipation [for Season 10] feels greater than ever before. So I can’t wait,” she said. “Although, in some ways, this is a weird season for me because I do end up being nine months pregnant by the end of the season.”
While Faith’s fellow Hope Valley resident, Rosemary LeVeaux Coulter, learned she was pregnant in When Calls the Heart Season 9 and gave birth in Season 10, Brooks seemed to confirm that Faith isn’t pregnant given that she had to hide Brooks baby bump while filming. “I do carry a lot of very strange props. I do have my doctor’s bag getting bigger as we are shooting to allocate for my growing belly,” she said. “So all my memories of this season are just how am I going to hide my belly? That’s just all I remember.” She continued, “So I’m also excited to get through this season so that eventually, we get to 11, we can air that, and then I have a waist again.”
Brooks, who was also pregnant with her first child in while filming When Calls the Heart Season 7, also shouted out the series’ costume designer for concealing her baby bump in both Season 7 and Season 10. “Our costume designer Barbara is so fabulous. She’s worked with me on this same show with my previous pregnancy in [When Calls the Heart Season 7] because she actually kept a lot of my clothes, just thinking I may have another baby, which is adorable,” Brooks said. “But she’s so good with angles and cut clothing in ways I had never thought about. And it’s to the point where I was joking with her; I was like, I think we should do a YouTube interview together where we discussed everything we did costume-wise because it was brilliant. She really has so many fantastic ideas for covering a pregnancy.
She continued, “Everyone was great by the end of the season. We wrote scenes in interesting ways that everything could be hidden, but it really becomes this extra element that, on top of your character, your performance, your story, and all the normal things that you worry about. You have this different thing that is that everyone is paying attention to on set while you’re shooting. It just makes it extra funny, really.”
Brooks also debunked a fan theory that Faith is pregnant with her love interest Nathan Grant’s baby. Faith and Nathan’s romance started in When Calls the Heart Season 9 after Nathan’s breakup with his ex, Elizabeth Thatcher Thornton, in the Season 8 finale. Faith and Nathan’s romance continued in When Calls the Heart Season 10, though something yet to be revealed happened to them between Season 9 and 10, which has caused a hiccup in their romance.
Could that hiccup be Faith’s pregnancy with Nathan’s baby? According to Brooks, the answer is no. “It would not be happening. So we joked about that, but there was just no way that that would fly,” she said. Though Faith isn’t pregnant with Nathan’s baby, Brooks did tease their relationship in Season 10. “We do end off in a really interesting place. Okay, what can I say about this? I can absolutely tease that Faith and Nathan do share a number of scenes in the upcoming season. And that’s super exciting for me,” she said.
He continued, I adore Kevin McGarry. He’s just such a fabulous actor. He’s so talented; I love working with him. But I also love that there are some natural reasons why our characters would end up sharing scenes, obviously with our professional lives and what we do. And, there’s some interesting intersection coming your way when it comes to professional life. So there are scenes to be had, and you are right; there was a teaser featuring Faith and Nathan.”
As for Season 10 as a whole, Brooks also teased how the show’s new time period plays a part in the current season. “I think with the passing of time, it is so interesting. This show started in the early 1910s, and now we’re well into the 1920s, and so much changed between those two periods,” she said. “And it’s been cool to play a character in a town experiencing change consistently.”
She continued, “And you’re right; there is a hustle and bustle about town there. New people are coming in. There are new fashions. We have cars now. So, for practical reasons, we’re now able to shoot with more people just because of the way the world and protocols are changing. There’s definitely a lot more spirit and life being pumped into Hope Valley this year. And I’m glad that that was reflected. I think that that was intentional.”
She also told the site about where she predicts Hope Valley would be in present day. “I’ve thought about this with the town. If you were to progress a hundred years, it could just be like a central core downtown, potentially like it would continue expanding and evolving until it became a major city,” she said.
She continued, “So, it is something interesting that with each passing year, we need to add more houses, more establishments, more businesses, as it would naturally progress to a point where it’s a major metropolitan city potentially one day like we’re used to.”
She also explained what it’s like to now film with cars. “It’s loud. The cars are very noisy, so we always have to take great care not to overlap our lines with the cars when they’re passing. I mean, the horses and buggies aren’t quiet either. But those old cars, they’ve got extremely loud engines and motors,” she said. “So that’s funny. You really can’t hear a thing that a character is saying to you if a car is passing.”
When Calls the Heart airs on Sundays at 9 p.m. on Hallmark Channel.
For more on When Calls the Heart, check out our photo gallery below of the When Calls the Heart cast’s children – plus, learn which actor’s kids star in the show.
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