A woman has left people in hysterics after she revealed how her positive pregnancy announcement went wrong.
In a post on Reddit, the anonymous woman explained that she recently found out that she is expecting her third child after a bout of intense nausea prompted her to take an at-home pregnancy test.
Instead of telling her husband the exciting news straight away, she came up with a plan to surprise him - but it didn't exactly go to plan...
"I was feeling the nausea HARD and used a pregnancy test that I still had from the box from the last time I thought I was pregnant and, boom, baby in the oven," she wrote.
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"I found out on April 2nd and decided to wait until the 25th because that's my husband's birthday and thought it'd be the best birthday gift ever," she added.
So, the mum threw the positive test into her bathroom bin and went on her way. It was only later when she remembered that her husband always takes out the rubbish, that she realised that her surprise baby reveal could be in jeopardy.
When two weeks went by with no mention of the test, she was sure her husband hadn't seen it - until they went food shopping...
"We're grocery shopping and suddenly my husband starts crying and goes to the bathroom," she wrote. "I call him on the phone and he, still crying, asks if it's his baby."
"I manage to get him out of the bathroom, we go outside, I tell him my plan and give him a hug and apologize," she continued. "He's laughing so hard he can't breathe and then tells me to never do that again before he apologised for running to conclusions."
"Then we went to get frozen yoghurt," she added. "Food for the soul."
Reddit users were in hysterics at the mix-up and said they could see why her husband thought that.
One person said: "For real! 'Why hasn't she told me yet?!' Omg I would definitely have run to the same conclusion."
Another put: "Don't wait a full freaking month to inform your husband you're pregnant."
While a third member shared her own pregnancy story. She wrote: "Congrats on the new addition-and omg!! I don't even know how it is even possible to keep that a secret..lol. I have one child, now 27 years old.
"My husband and I were actively trying to get pregnant. When I found out I was expecting, I thought about trying to find some cute way to tell him, or pick a 'fun' day to surprise him.... yeah, all of those thoughts lasted exactly 2 minutes before I cracked, called him on his work phone and told him over the phone , not even in person.. while, I am really great at keeping secrets, that was one piece of info I could not hold."
"That's sad he was upset," someone else wrote. "But damn he must love the sh*t outta [you] if he worked himself up this hard for two weeks."
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