Take Me To Post Comment Form It all started with a panicky phone call from Lindy. “I was eating pizza and it didn’t taste good!” She said. “Then I took a pregnancy test and it was positive! Then I took another one… and it was positive too!” She was shocked. She asked me how this could’ve happened. I suspended the lecture on human reproduction and assured her that this is what we’ve been asking God for just about every night before we go to bed. We’d been trying for over a year. My wife has (had?) a condition called Poly-Cystic Ovarian Syndrome. Little cysts grow on the ovaries and they don’t produce eggs like they should. The first time Lindy didn’t have her period we were ecstatic because we thought she might be pregnant. Unfortunately the news that we weren’t was devastating. We started trying medication. The first one, Metformin was to help with metabolic syndrome. My wife’s body didn’t accept the insulin that it made and that can contribute to PCOS. I can’t remember what the second was called but it was for fertility. Still no kids… After two cycles of fertility drugs we took a break. We wondered whether we should have kids at all… whether we were meant to have kids at all. At some point we started accepting our childless status. We started enjoying the fact that we didn’t have kids, that it was just us. We were at the point where we were pretty okay with that. “Well, that’s no fun!” said God, who I think has a pretty good sense of humor. So off to the doctor we went. They wanted to do an ultrasound. I wondered why since it didn’t seem like there would be anything to see at this point. Surprise! I saw a little kidney bean with a tiny flash in the middle. Then I heard it: whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-whoosh… the beating heart of little Sherwood, Jr. I have never had a more surreal moment in all my life. Right there… inside my wife’s belly was a little person! A PERSON! And I helped make it! I cried a little. Not weeping like a widow or anything, but tears were shed. So get ready people another Sherwood should enter the world on or around March 22!