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Chapter 438
Chapter 438
It was an involuntary reaction. Mia swore she didn’t mean to hit anyone. She slapped her brother’s
back, and the sound echoed in the living room, silencing everyone instantly. “Did you just say my baby
has no heartbeat!”
She grabbed her brother’s shirt, pulling him closer. Her voice was harsh as she emphasized, “My baby
is moving inside me. How could it not have a heartbeat? You bought a faulty device and now you’re
blaming my baby.”
“Wait, wait a minute,” Cooper stammered.
He placed his hand on Mia’s belly, feeling for the baby’s movement. After ten seconds passed, Cooper
impatiently urged his sister’s belly. “Come on. Why won’t you kick?”
But there was no movement. Cooper looked at his sister’s face, and then pointed at her belly. “Mia, it’s
not moving.”
Mia retorted, “Of course, my baby isn’t some common creature who would just kick whenever you
want. You think you’re that important? Even its father doesn’t get that privilege when it’s in a bad
mood.”
Andre at the side remained silent, knowing that was indeed the case.
Cooper tried again with the device on Mia’s belly, wearing his headphones. “Mia, there really is no
heartbeat.”
Andre remained calm. He took the device and started reading the instructions, trying to figure it out,
while his wife and brother-in-law continued their argument.
“My son is very temperamental, you know. You have to call him ‘sweetheart’ and tell him ‘I love you’
before he might give you the time of day,” Mia explained.
Cooper questioned, “Is this baby a boy or a girl? Why is he so sensitive?”
After speaking, Cooper rested his hand on Mia’s belly. “Sweetheart, I’m your Uncle Cooper. I love you.
If you hear me, give me a kick.”
The baby didn’t respond. Cooper said, “Mia...”
Mia interrupted, “I told you, he might give you the time of day. Clearly, he’s not doing that now.”
Andre had figured out the problem. “The batteries were installed backwards.”
Cooper could only facepalm at his mistake.
Mia looked at her brother in disbelief. “How did you manage to screw that up?”
Cooper defended himself, “Everyone makes mistakes.”
After Andre corrected the battery installation, he handed the device back to Cooper, letting him be the
first to hear the baby’s heartbeat. Andre knew how much this child meant to Cooper.
This time, Cooper took the device, put on the headphones, and placed the fetal monitor on Mia’s belly.
“There it is! I heard it!” He exclaimed excitedly.
Mia immediately got excited. “How does it sound? What’s it like?”
As Cooper scanned her belly, he hesitated. “Well...”
“Just say it. What’s that look on your face?”
He scanned her belly for a while longer, then finally seeing the heartbeat on the monitor. He stopped
and listened carefully.
Mia didn’t dare interrupt her brother who was intently listening to her baby’s heartbeat. She tried to
breathe as softly as possible, not wanting to disturb him.
Andre was a bit anxious, watching Cooper. What was he frowning for?
“Mia, are you sure you’re carrying a baby and not a train? It sounds like wind blowing inside your belly,
and then a train running against the wind, chugging and whooshing.”
Mia remained silent, bemused.
Cooper took off the headphones and handed them to Andre. “Andre, you listen.”
After Andre listened, he was also confused. It indeed didn’t sound like a heartbeat.
“Honey, let me listen.”
Andre put the headphones on Mia, and began looking up information on fetal heart sounds.
“This is normal. I saw online that other expectant mothers also hear this sound,” Mia said.
Her words eased the worry of the two men.
That afternoon, the three adults stayed home, listening to the baby’s heartbeat and playing with the
device Cooper had bought. The day passed quickly.
Mia had found a new “game.” She moved the scanner over her belly. “I want to listen to my baby’s
bottom.”
They had planned to return to the Cedillo family today, and Hansen called in the evening urging them to
come home.
Cooper had just returned, and he undoubtedly came to see Mia. Therefore, Andre informed his family,
and the couple decided to stay at the Irvin family for another night.
In the evening, Aaron and Madison also returned home. They were soon pulled into listening to the
baby’s heartbeat by their own children. Andre felt like his unborn son was a toy, being played with by
his mother even before his birth.
At night, Andre watched as Mia continued to play with the device Cooper had bought her. She was
wearing the headphones, sometimes listening to music, sometimes to the baby’s heartbeat.
Andre glanced at the bedside clock. “Mia, it’s eleven o’clock. If you don’t sleep, the baby will be tired.”
Mia looked at her belly, which sometimes bulged and sometimes flattened. “Honey, touch my belly.
He’s being active.”
The couple was no longer surprised by the baby’s movements, but Cooper, on the other hand, was
fascinated.
In the evening, after she had eaten dinner, Cooper had been studying her belly. “Mia, do you feel like © 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.
you’re carrying a watermelon?”
“Don’t mention watermelons.” She had been craving frozen watermelons since summer arrived, but
watermelons have a high sugar content and could cause gestational diabetes. Naomi didn’t allow her to
eat them.
“Oh, then do you feel like you’re carrying a cantaloupe?”
Mia suddenly felt like this kid really needed a good spanking.
Sometimes the Cedillo family would also privately comment, “Andre found a good wife, and her family
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Cooper’s return was unexpected, so he had a lot of things to settle at his school and needed to leave
early. After a short stay at home, he bid his family goodbye and left.
Mia also followed her husband back to the Cedillo family.
Molly was discharged from the hospital, and Leo had returned home. Coincidentally, Mia also returned
home.
When the three of them saw each other, Andre gave them a sweeping glance, and they immediately
scattered in three different directions.
Hansen wondered, “When did these three tykes start fearing me?”
“Mia, off to bed you go. Molly, retreat to your room for a bit of rest. Leo... you’re with me in the study.”
Andre gestured towards the stairs with his chin, signaling her to go up. Mia obediently climbed the
stairs. Then, she sneakily left her bedroom door ajar.