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.”

“I haven’t experienced stripes or polka dots, so I suppose I should be grateful. It is nothing like that.”

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

having sex dreams!”

saucily as she winked

hot dreams of lovers, sometimes two at a time. And, I wake up in desperate need, but my vibrator isn’t cutting

sagely. “That is perfectly

at the word

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

“You need to get laid,” Tina advised.

cheeks heated and she looked to

on the second latex glove. “Am I missing

to split so that she could sink

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

have to agree with Tina.

uttered

eminently more handsome. “There is nothing wrong with good sex, Mandy. It has been proven to solve many ailments.”

pointed to her belly and said wryly,

“That

Tina giggled. “Or

Dr. Roberts admonished his assistant. “Every baby is a blessing from

sure 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 wasn’t sure

could always use a vibrator,” Dr. Roberts

before Mandy could get a word in edgewise. “Besides,

Dr. Roberts looked

don’t!” Mandy shoved her maternity top over her belly. “It was only a dream! And I’m not Mrs. Johnson!”

sniffed. “Apparently she is sensitive about a

the room before Mandy could

to save her life,” he said with a good-humored smile. “Everything is on schedule,

find a job being the size of a water buffalo.

that you worked as a PA before?” Dr. Roberts threw away his