Are the Buchmans having kids?
Yes they are, in season #5 after a whole season spent trying. Jamie’s early pregnancy test returned a positive result [4.22, 5.1] and the pregnancy has been confirmed by her new gynecologist, Dr. Joan Golfinos [5.1]. MAY opened with Jamie claiming to be pregnant [1.1], but only to coax Paul into getting out of bed and making the coffee. Jamie was known to be on the Pill [3.1], but somewhere along the line changed to the use of a diaphragm [4.1]. After confessing the unilateral failure to use contraception one night, Jamie talks Paul into trying for a baby [4.1]. Fran, in one of her moods, once give explicit advice: “Never have children” [3.14]. But Sylvia has tried her best to assist the process by suggesting names [3.1]. Paul once suggested having three kids, then wondered about the state of mind of the middle kid [4.1]. Over the years, Paul and Jamie have talked about having kids, in particular when Paul’s nephew Jed spent Halloween with them [2.6]. On their second anniversary, Jamie
