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.”

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

I don’t think that there is anything you could say that

dreams!” Mandy blurted

replied saucily as she winked

hot dreams of lovers, sometimes two at a time. And, I wake up in desperate need,

nodded sagely. “That is perfectly normal.”

groaned at the word ‘normal’.

his forties, and Mandy was been grateful he was able to slip her into his caseload. He was an

to get

she looked to

the second latex glove. “Am I

so that she could sink into a deep hole.

Tina answered, “Mrs. Johnson is having wild sex dreams. I told her that she needs to get

“While not completely medically ethical, I would have to agree with Tina. These dreams won’t harm you or your

uttered underneath her breath.

replied with a grin that made him look younger and eminently more handsome. “There is nothing

pointed to her belly and said wryly, “And cause

Roberts lips twitched. “That was just luck.”

Tina giggled. “Or

“Every baby

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

always use a vibrator,”

“It’s not tickling her fancy,” Tina responded before Mandy could get a word in edgewise. “Besides, Mrs. Johnson

Roberts looked impressed.

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

sensitive

Roberts ushered Tina out of the room before Mandy could strangle her.

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 right around the corner you know.”

a job being the size of a water buffalo. So, no, nothing is exciting

before?” Dr. Roberts threw away his gloves and began to wash