A dad from Arizona has gone viral for his hilarious mix-up during a real-time gender reveal in the delivery room.
Rhett Scheurn, 32, told Newsweek that he and his wife wanted to wait to find out the gender because they had a son and a daughter already.
Scheurn shared the video on Instagram of him confidently announcing “it’s a boy” after his wife gives birth to their third child. Just as the proud parents are savoring the moment, doctors in the room get a closer look. “That did not look like a boy,” one says.
Realizing his mistake, Scheurn quickly backtracks saying, “It’s a girl!”, before putting his head in his hands as the room erupts in laughter.
“As the baby was born, I had originally said boy because she looked just like our first boy that was born and our second, who was a girl, was completely blonde, so without even looking down there I said boy, but I was definitely corrected,” Scheurn told Newsweek.
He added that the penny dropped when he heard one of the nurses say, “I don’t know, look again.”
The father of three aptly captioned his reel “I had one job lol,” and it has received over 20 million views since it was posted on June 24.
Scheurn’s honest account of the gender mix-up resonated with many other social media users who know all too well how overwhelming it can be in the birthing room.
“My husband did the same thing with my daughter,” one user wrote, while another noticed Scheurn’s tears when he realized his baby was a girl. “He is going to be the best girl dad,” they commented.
Another user shared how the same thing happened to her husband during her C-section. “He had the camera video rolling (it was around his neck) and I like to listen to it every once in a while. The doctor corrected him. Later he told me, ‘I couldn’t really tell, it’s all swollen down there so I thought it was a boy,'” they wrote.
A fellow dad also shared that he had to take a long pause before announcing both of his girls. “It’s honestly tough at first glance,” he added.
Scheurn told Newsweek that their baby girl is doing great and she’s part of a very loving family.
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