Josh and Gemma Make a Baby

New Year’s Resolution: Have a baby. Preferably with Josh Lewenthal. Meet Gemma Jacobs. She’s driven energetic and a positive thinker. She has a great career working for famed self-help guru Ian Fortune she lives in a cute studio apartment in Manhattan and her family is supportive and loving (albeit a little kooky). Her life is perfect. Absolutely wonderful.Except for one tiny little thing. After a decade of disastrous relationships and an infertility diagnosis Gemma doesn’t want a Mr. Right (or even a Mr. Right Now); she just wants a baby. And all she needs is an egg some sperm and IVF.So Gemma makes a New Year’s resolution: Have a baby. Josh Lewenthal is a laid-back relaxed find-the-humor-in-life kind of guy. The polar opposite of Gemma. He’s also her brother’s best friend. For the past 20 years Josh has attended every Jacobs’ family birthday holiday and event - he’s always around. Gemma knows him. He’s nice (enough) he’s funny (ish) he’s healthy (she thinks) and he didn’t burn any ants with a magnifying glass as a kid. Which in Gemma’s mind makes him the perfect option for a sperm donor. So Gemma wants to make a deal. An unemotional businesslike arrangement. No commitments just a baby. To Gemma’s surprise Josh agrees. They have nothing in common except their agreement to make a baby and their desire to keep things businesslike. But the thing about baby-making…it’s hard to keep it businesslike it’s nearly impossible to keep it unemotional and it’s definitely impossible to keep your heart out of the mix. Because when you’re making a baby together things have a way of starting to feel like you’re making other things too - like a life and a family and love. And when the baby-making ends you wish that everything else didn’t have to end too.