Looking at Sonia's curious face and Toby's resolute expression, Mary didn't shy away and told them all she knew, "Yes. During pregnancy, it is true that women will act in direct contrast to their prior selves, and having different taste buds is one of them. Many women don't eat spicy food before, but they suddenly fall in love with spicy food during pregnancy and could take spiciness very well. There are others who are just like you who don't like acidic or sour foods but like them after getting pregnant. All these are normal, and there are more who prefer acidic to spicy food."
"Why is that so?" Sonia asked, puzzled.
Chuckling, Mary answered, "That's due to the hormones in a pregnant woman's body, especially for cases like you who have a greater pregnancy reaction and can't eat anything. If you change the flavor to acidic, sour or spicy, the feeling of nausea or wanting to throw up will go away."
"I see." Sonia nodded in a daze.
Meanwhile, Toby noted everything down directly. That wasn't the only point he noted as he also asked Mary other questions in detail while feeding Sonia.
When she had finished half of the food and didn't want more, he wrote down everything from memory in the notebook.
In the afternoon, Tom came and brought a big stack of books with him—everything that Toby asked for, topics on pregnant mothers and being a first-time father.
Sonia took a quick glance and reckoned there were about twenty to thirty books.
That's a lot of books. I wonder if he could really finish them within these few months, she thought. Not only Sonia but even Mary was startled by Toby's plan. However, she felt more relief after the shock subsided.
As a woman, Mary was happy that Sonia was doing well and received genuine care and concern from her man, and from the bottom of her heart, she was delighted and comforted to see Toby this way.
The teachings in the Fuller Family were a success. Even after Homer married Jean, who was his second wife, she had to admit that Homer didn't do anyone wrong.
When Homer was in love with Valerie, he was wholeheartedly devoted to her.
However, she really had no feelings for him and even encouraged him to seek love elsewhere, which he really did in the end, and he found Jean. He fell in love with her and would rather be punished by the family than give up marrying her.
The men from the Fuller Family could be considered loyal and faithful, and they gave more than enough attention to their women at the same time. This concluded that the Fuller Family was successful in raising their men.
I believe Young Master Tyler will turn out the same, Mary thought with a smile. Then, she left the room quietly, giving the space to the couple because she knew that they had a lot to speak about.
If there was no reason for an old lady like her to be present, she decided that she would stay outside of the room lest she disturbed their moment.
Finally, the media reported Sonia's pregnancy. Coincidentally, when she was having her maternity checkup, the wife of a media worker happened to be doing the same and bumped into her and Toby.
With their status and the fact that they didn't deliberately hide their identities, they were recognized by this lady, who later went home and told her husband about it. After that, news of Sonia's suspected pregnancy was published online and sent the Internet into a frenzy.
Many netizens speculated that Sonia and Toby rekindled their marriage so suddenly because she was pregnant, and this speculation received the agreement of the majority.
It couldn't be denied that experts lived amongst the commoners and the netizens were very smart.
Meanwhile, Toby and Sonia only learned about this when Tom told them about it over the phone.
As electronic gadgets such as cell phones produced radiation, both of them avoided using them in the ward unless necessary. So, they didn't follow the news on the Internet and didn't know that they had gone viral again.
When Toby found out that the media had exposed Sonia's pregnancy, his brows furrowed more deeply than words could describe because he didn't plan to make this public, at least not for now.
Besides, no matter which culture it was, people were usually hesitant to announce a pregnancy that was less than three months because of superstition. Although he didn't believe it, for Sonia and the baby's sake, he was willing to believe all these things that couldn't be explained.
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