A lot of couples turn to vasectomies when they are done having children, and Edie and her husband were no different.
For Edie Schmidt, a radio talk show host, it all started with a simple pair of baby shoes.
While shopping with her husband one afternoon for new athletic shoes, part of their new goal to hit the gym, she held up the smallest pair of gym shoes she had ever seen, teasing her husband that they were just like "big brother's." Big brother, of course, was 20 years old and the man responsible for their gym membership, but Edie couldn't resist.
"No!" her husband responded resolutely. "I've already had the surgery and I'm not having it reversed. Besides, we're old."
Edie acknowledged her husband's point — she was in her late 40s and he in his 50s, so it only made sense. But deep down, right in between the rows of shoes that surrounded her that day, she made a silent wish for just one more baby.
So a few weeks later, when Edie was putting those new gym shoes to good use and hitting the treadmill hard, she learned that sometimes, you need to be careful what you wish for. Suddenly, she felt extremely sick and, as Edie tells it, even though it had been twenty-one years since she last felt that level of nausea, there was no mistaking it — she was pregnant.
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