Billionaire’s Secret Baby

Week 28: Baby's eyes partially open

Twenty-eight weeks into your pregnancy, or 26 weeks after conception, your baby's eyelids can partially open, and eyelashes have formed. The central nervous system can direct rhythmic breathing movements and control body temperature.

By now your baby might be nearly 10 inches long from crown to rump and weigh nearly 2 1/4 pounds.

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“Mandy Johnson?”

Mandy hurriedly closed the magazine that she was reading and nearly dropped it in the process. She lurched to her feet. It was neither graceful nor pretty. Being seven-months along, Mandy had found that the simplest of tasks, such as standing, could be almost insurmountable.

Mandy smiled at Dr. Roberts’ assistant who was standing patiently at the door.

“It’s nice to have you back, Mrs. Johnson,” said the chubby middle-aged woman as she guided Mandy over to the scale.

“Um, I’m not married, Tina,” Mandy said with a sigh. It seemed that she needed to remind Dr. Roberts’ medical assistant of this at every appointment.

“Oh, I’m sorry, child,” she replied. “Up another three pounds this month.”

“Is that bad?” Mandy asked as looked at Tina in horror.

Tina laughed replying, “I have some women that gain almost seventy pounds with their pregnancies. You have gained twenty-one pounds which is perfectly normal. We did the urine sample while you were waiting, and everything came back fine. Shall we head into a room and listen to the heartbeat?”

Mandy nodded and followed Tina’s wide hips to the third waiting room. From there Tina asked her climb up on the table and squirted some jelly on Mandy’s belly. With the fetal doppler, Tina quickly found the baby’s heartbeat and recorded it on the chart.

“Are you experiencing anything unusual?” Tina asked, the tip of her pen resting on her full lips.

Mandy frowned before saying, “You always ask me that. But it seems that no matter what I tell you is happening you tell me that it’s perfectly normal.”

Tina raised a brow. “Pain, headaches, nightmares, heartburn, and occasional cramping are all typical of a normal pregnancy, Mandy. But should you come in with purple stripes and orange polka dots I promise to be properly impressed.”

stripes or polka dots, so I

years, and I don’t think that there is anything you could say that would surprise me.”

sex dreams!” Mandy blurted out.

replied saucily as she winked at

hot dreams of

nodded sagely. “That is perfectly

groaned at the word ‘normal’.

the door and slipped inside. He was a handsome man in his forties, and Mandy was been grateful he was able to slip her into his caseload. He

to get laid,” Tina advised.

cheeks heated and she looked to the

on the second latex glove. “Am I

so that she could sink into a deep hole.

answered, “Mrs. Johnson is having wild sex dreams. I told her

cleared his throat and said, “While not completely medically ethical, I would have to agree with Tina. These dreams won’t harm you or

“Kill me know,” Mandy uttered underneath her breath.

that made him look younger and eminently more handsome. “There is nothing wrong with good sex, Mandy. It has

her belly and said wryly, “And cause a

twitched. “That

Tina giggled. “Or poor

Dr. Roberts admonished his assistant. “Every baby is

what she thought about the peanut. Sure, at this stage of her pregnancy she’d gotten used to the idea that there was indeed a baby in there and this wasn’t alien-nation. But she

use a vibrator,” Dr.

word in edgewise. “Besides, Mrs.

Dr. Roberts looked impressed.

over her belly. “It was only a dream! And

is sensitive about a few things.”

Roberts ushered Tina out of the room before Mandy

a good woman who can’t keep her mouth shut to save her life,” he said with a good-humored smile. “Everything is on schedule, Mandy you measure at twenty-eight weeks. Do you have plans for Christmas? It’s

being the size of a water buffalo. So, no, nothing is exciting in my life this Christmas."

Roberts threw away his gloves and began to