I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 138

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Judith decided to think positively.

At least Karl’s gloominess had disappeared. It really wasn’t good to see a child looking so dejected.

“Uncle will really play with him well like a big brother.”

Karl said excitedly.

“Of course there’s a big age difference, but I’ll return to my childlike heart.”

He even declared such a solemn resolution as if he were a great adult.

“I will keep the secret.”

He even clenched both fists with a very determined face.

“About the fact that my nephew’s gender has already been revealed!”

Surprisingly, he had figured out on his own why this should be kept secret.

“It’s because of our mother, right?”

“Uh, Mother?”

When Judith asked back, Karl grinned knowingly and said.

“Mother bought tons of girl’s things too. Even though she said it wasn’t time to know the gender yet.”

Several carriages full of baby items had indeed arrived. She said there probably wouldn’t be the latest trendy childcare products in a domain that had just finished a war.

An enormous amount of baby clothes had come too. Both boy’s clothes and girl’s clothes. When asked why she bought so much, Isabella casually said ‘I just bought everything I liked.’

What was more surprising was that Ekian didn’t say ‘But how can you buy both when we don’t even know the gender?’

No one mentioned that overspending. Because even all of it combined wasn’t a lot of money for Isabella. Rather, Ben said ‘If that much improved your mother’s mood, it was worth every penny.’

“It would be awkward to make her throw things away right after bringing them such a long way. Actually our family doesn’t mind at all, but sister-in-law is so kind.”

“Ah… well.”

Judith nodded blankly.

“I suppose so… Yes. That’s right.”

Anyway, Karl’s gloominess had completely disappeared, so the baby in her belly had taken care of uncle’s emotions first by revealing one piece of information about itself.

Still, Judith made a resolution to herself.

‘Next I should tell Ekian. It happened by accident that Karl found out first through a slip of the tongue, but still Ekian is the baby’s father…’

She had faith. A firm trust that Ekian would never be disappointed even if the child was a son. That even if there might be some awkwardness due to the shadows cast by his past, Ekian was a strong enough man to overcome that.

She had definitely resolved that, but…

“Judith!”

Isabella, who had thoroughly tormented Ekian, immediately came looking for Judith. Judith also hugged Isabella as if she had been waiting.

Even though they had greeted, hugged, heard words of blessing, and cried and laughed at the wedding ceremony, after the ceremony was completely over, they had their own things to talk about.

“I gave Ekian quite a beating. Though he slipped away like a fox…”

Isabella said huffily.

“Every time I come to my senses, I’ll set him straight. How dare that sinful man try to marry my daughter-in-law with just words?”

“That last part sounds really strange, Mother. Ahaha…”

“By the way.”

Isabella’s eyes scanned Judith with concern.

“How was your morning sickness? Even though it’s the stable period, pregnancy symptoms are different for everyone. Is there any food you particularly crave or miss from before? No tightening in your belly?”

Judith was momentarily startled. Then she was swept by somewhat strange emotions, realizing this was the first time she had received such specific questions from a woman who was both ‘family’ and had ‘childbirth experience.’

She thought, this is what a mother would normally do.

“By the way, have you found a wet nurse?”

“A… wet nurse?”

Judith asked back in a trembling voice. Come to think of it, she had also had a wet nurse. It was natural since she had grown up as a noble family’s daughter. But she had never been told details about that wet nurse.

She had just been there since childhood and seemed to have been replaced by tutors around age seven. The wet nurse had a daughter her own age, and that daughter had lived with them too, she remembered. But it was such a long time ago and no one had ever formally told her about it, so the concept was vague.

“Uh… I think the butler gave me some kind of list last time…”

Judith muttered, searching her memory. She remembered receiving such a list, but had set it aside since the baby’s birth was still far off. She had thought establishing a school in the domain was the priority.

Then Isabella took her hand and said.

“Let’s look at it together, dear. A wet nurse is an important matter. You haven’t been here very long either, have you? We should discuss it together. This kind of thing concerns a woman’s body, so it would be a bit awkward to discuss with Ekian.”

Judith’s heart began to flutter.

Having a senior in pregnancy and childbirth who would take care of her own affairs that she didn’t even know about as if they were her own brought a tremendous sense of relief.

“Do I need to find a wet nurse already?”

“Of course. The list the butler gave you then probably has other mothers with due dates similar to yours written on it. Because they need to nurse together. We can’t know the condition of those mothers right away, so we need to select several candidates. Even among those, we’ll have to choose again once the baby is actually born.”

“Is, is that how it works?”

“Naturally.”

Judith realized then that she hadn’t really imagined much about what would happen after giving birth to the child. It was because she had never even seen a newborn baby.

Thinking about it that way, she realized that a wet nurse was quite an important person. Isabella hadn’t come to take care of the wet nurse first for no reason.

“We need to interview and meet them in person, and you can do that with me while I’m here. Wouldn’t it be more accurate for two people to evaluate?”

Even in the midst of this, Isabella didn’t say things like ‘this is something your birth mother should be doing.’ Her tone was that she should naturally be doing this. Judith was newly grateful for that too.

“And isn’t it a bit difficult when you sleep? It’ll get harder as your belly swells up. I always kept a long pillow on my bed when I slept, so I had something similar custom-made and brought it.”

Isabella’s words continued.

“And that dress is pretty but your belly must be a bit uncomfortable. Now that the guests are all enjoying themselves, shall we change your clothes first?”

“Yes!”

Since it was indeed a bit uncomfortable, Judith quickly nodded. Meanwhile, Isabella coldly responded to Ekian, who had started hovering around them, telling him ‘go out and finish entertaining the guests,’ then requested the wet nurse list from the butler.

And she even gave additional instructions to find out if there were any smokers in those households, how many children they were having, what their usual nutritional status was like, and so on.

“The mother needs to be able to trust the wet nurse with her child to be comfortable.”

Isabella said decisively.

“If even one thing bothers her, the child’s mother can’t rest peacefully.”

Judith fully felt that Isabella’s consideration for her was contained in every single word. Isabella muttered as if she wasn’t very satisfied with the list.

“Well this is… The Marquis’ Domain is large, so why are there only this many applicants?”

Then the butler immediately answered.

“Because we haven’t started recruiting in earnest yet. We haven’t even prepared rooms for the wet nurse and child at the Marquis’ Estate yet…”

“The welfare of the wet nurse and her child is also important. Enough so that women who were hesitant about wet nurse work would want to raise their own children here when they see the interview. It would be good to decorate the wet nurse’s room well.”

Isabella gave detailed instructions.

“Hmm, it would be good if there’s a wet nurse with a child of the opposite gender. Because it would be better to place items that can only be used by a specific gender among what I brought.”

“What? Those expensive things?”

“A good wet nurse is worth that much. Actually, I brought plenty anticipating even that far.”

The butler was shocked, but Isabella said decisively.

“However… it’s not yet the week to know the child’s gender. Still, since I don’t know this domain well, I want to see the wet nurse candidates myself as soon as possible.”

Judith rolled her eyes for a moment.

Although… she had thought the second person to know the gender should be Ekian, but this was about work matters, so it couldn’t be helped, right?

“It’s… a son.”

In the end, Judith ended up revealing that fact to the butler and Isabella.

But the fourth! The fourth person must definitely be Ekian! Definitely!

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