Everything Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag Have Said About Having Kids

Everything Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag Have Said About Having Kids

The Pratt family is growing by one — and if her past comments are any indication, Heidi Montag is more than ready for motherhood.

A source confirmed to PEOPLE on Wednesday that Montag and husband Spencer Pratt are expecting their first child in October, making the couple the latest of The Hills alums to become parents.

Montag has seemingly been looking forward to pregnancy for years, but has previously admitted that it took some time to get Pratt on board.

Here’s everything the couple has said about starting a family since they wed in 2009.

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Pratt “had a change of heart”

In November 2014, Montag admitted to Life and Style that she once feared her husband wouldn’t ever want children.

“Last year, while we filmed an E! special, he told me, ‘I don’t want to have kids,’ and I started crying,” she told the magazine.

When Montag told Pratt, 33, that she “couldn’t bear the thought of never becoming a mom,” the reality TV alum was swayed. She explained, “When he saw how important it was to me, he had a change of heart!”

Montag doesn’t want to stop at one

During a sit-down with Ok! Magazine in January 2015, Montag revealed that she envisions a…