Finding out you’ve been cheated on is devastating. But realizing it during the birth of your—well, not actually your—child? That’s a whole new kind of heartbreak.
For doctors and nurses, situations like these turn what should be a joyful occasion into pure chaos. They’re there to deliver a baby, not to get caught in the middle of relationship drama, but sometimes, that’s exactly what happens.
In one viral Reddit thread, medical professionals shared the wildest delivery room meltdowns they’ve witnessed when cheating was suddenly exposed. Scroll down to read their stories.
#1

Late to the party and I am not a doctor but...
I am white and my wife is black. I am frog-belly fluorescent-white; think ginger light. My wife is earthy brown. No one would ever describe her as light-skinned. We have a daughter.
She had a difficult labor and our daughter was delivered via c-section. She did not really get to see our daughter immediately after delivery.
Later in our room she was dozing and they brought our daughter in. My relatives and my wife's relatives all commented on how my daughter looked so much like me and was not even close to the pigmentation of my wife.
So I carried my daughter over to my wife and gently woke her and showed her our daughter and said "I do not think she's yours."
We all had a good laugh.
I am white and my wife is black. I am frog-belly fluorescent-white; think ginger light. My wife is earthy brown. No one would ever describe her as light-skinned. We have a daughter.
She had a difficult labor and our daughter was delivered via c-section. She did not really get to see our daughter immediately after delivery.
Later in our room she was dozing and they brought our daughter in. My relatives and my wife's relatives all commented on how my daughter looked so much like me and was not even close to the pigmentation of my wife.
So I carried my daughter over to my wife and gently woke her and showed her our daughter and said "I do not think she's yours."
We all had a good laugh.
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#2

The worst meltdowns I ever saw had nothing to do with skin colour. Some backwards horrible cultures you had to call security if some poor lady gives birth to a girl.
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#3

Not a doctor, but my best friends stepbrother was that guy who found out he wasn't the father because the baby was black.
I'll try to make it short. Dude had gone to rehab twice and was doing really really well. He came back home for a weekend and slept with his ex-gf. Left and went back to his house states away to continue his newfound life. Got the call she was pregnant and dropped everything to come back and be a father. We were really worried he would relapse but he was great.
So 9 months of preparation goes by. He was gonna be an awesome dad. All worried about relapsing were gone and he seemed ready to become the best dad he could ever be.
Baby comes out. Everybody's happy. Nurse takes him aside after a few minutes and says "I want to ask you something. You do know that's not your kid right?" He says what do you mean?
"Well, that baby is at least half black, but the pigments are prolly going to really darken."
So he goes over to his ex-gf and asks if there's anyways what the nurse just told him is true. She starts sobbing and breaks down completely. Admits that she slept with a black guy right around time he came back. So he says, "Alright. I'm glad you and the baby are healthy. Have a nice life."
Walks into the waiting room where all the new grandparents are waiting. Cheers. Celebration. "Everything good?"
"Yep. Healthy baby. Healthy mom. I'm *not* the father. I'm outta here." And walked right out the door.
The girls parents even wanted him to pay and support. He moved back to where he got his life back together and is doing incredibly well. But man, I wish he had all that time back.
I'll try to make it short. Dude had gone to rehab twice and was doing really really well. He came back home for a weekend and slept with his ex-gf. Left and went back to his house states away to continue his newfound life. Got the call she was pregnant and dropped everything to come back and be a father. We were really worried he would relapse but he was great.
So 9 months of preparation goes by. He was gonna be an awesome dad. All worried about relapsing were gone and he seemed ready to become the best dad he could ever be.
Baby comes out. Everybody's happy. Nurse takes him aside after a few minutes and says "I want to ask you something. You do know that's not your kid right?" He says what do you mean?
"Well, that baby is at least half black, but the pigments are prolly going to really darken."
So he goes over to his ex-gf and asks if there's anyways what the nurse just told him is true. She starts sobbing and breaks down completely. Admits that she slept with a black guy right around time he came back. So he says, "Alright. I'm glad you and the baby are healthy. Have a nice life."
Walks into the waiting room where all the new grandparents are waiting. Cheers. Celebration. "Everything good?"
"Yep. Healthy baby. Healthy mom. I'm *not* the father. I'm outta here." And walked right out the door.
The girls parents even wanted him to pay and support. He moved back to where he got his life back together and is doing incredibly well. But man, I wish he had all that time back.
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#4

When my wife was born, she was very yellow and the nurse quietly asked her mom about the paternity when her dad was out of the room. She was just born with a bad case of jaundice and that nurse was an idiot.
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#5

I hope I'm not too late!!
My mom is a labor and delivery nurse. One time she had a patient whose parents were present during her stay at the hospital. The staff there have a white board with some general information about the patients like blood type, time spent in the wing, and like how far along. This information is nameless for HIPAA reasons and instead has a patients number.
So this patient happened to be the only one in the wing at the time. Her father was walking back from the cafeteria at one point, and noticed the board. He stopped one of the nurses and asked if the blood type for the patient on the board was correct (he knew his daughter was the only patient there). It was B+. The nurse confirmed it was correct.
Turns out he knew his and his wife's blood type. He was O+ and his wife was A-. This combination will never yield a B+ baby. He brings his wife out and just points at the board and this look of shock washes over her.
TL:DR Father of patient in labor finds out his wife cuckolded him 25 years later by knowing his blood type punnit squares.
My mom is a labor and delivery nurse. One time she had a patient whose parents were present during her stay at the hospital. The staff there have a white board with some general information about the patients like blood type, time spent in the wing, and like how far along. This information is nameless for HIPAA reasons and instead has a patients number.
So this patient happened to be the only one in the wing at the time. Her father was walking back from the cafeteria at one point, and noticed the board. He stopped one of the nurses and asked if the blood type for the patient on the board was correct (he knew his daughter was the only patient there). It was B+. The nurse confirmed it was correct.
Turns out he knew his and his wife's blood type. He was O+ and his wife was A-. This combination will never yield a B+ baby. He brings his wife out and just points at the board and this look of shock washes over her.
TL:DR Father of patient in labor finds out his wife cuckolded him 25 years later by knowing his blood type punnit squares.
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#6

My friend was a delivery nurse for the hospital that all high risk pregnancies go to. They are extremely busy and she has brought a lot of people into the world. She once delivered a baby in the parking lot by herself. This has come up on a weekly basis, but she shared the best story with us.
A Caucasian couple come in and the mother is in labor. When the dude is filling out paperwork the mother takes the doctor aside. She tells him there is a chance that the baby may a different race than the father and to let her know as soon as the baby is born.
The baby is born. The doctor turns to the mother and announces loudly, "Congratulations on your WHITE baby boy."
A Caucasian couple come in and the mother is in labor. When the dude is filling out paperwork the mother takes the doctor aside. She tells him there is a chance that the baby may a different race than the father and to let her know as soon as the baby is born.
The baby is born. The doctor turns to the mother and announces loudly, "Congratulations on your WHITE baby boy."
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#7

A patient asked if both possible fathers could be in her c-section so that neither would miss the birth of his child. They'd figure out the details later.
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#8

My parents' cat had five kittens. Two all-black, three all orange. There is a black male stray and an orange male stray in the neighborhood. She looked a little ashamed maybe.
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#9

These stories remind me of something I experienced first hand the day after my son was born:
Nurse: So your baby's blood type is A-
Wife: Like me!
Nurse: And daddy!
Me: No, I'm A+
Nurse: You must be mistaken, that combination isn't possible.
(...)
Nurse: Uh, I'll leave you guys to it.
Me: *pulls out phone and frantically Googles "baby blood type combinations"*
(the nurse was wrong).
Nurse: So your baby's blood type is A-
Wife: Like me!
Nurse: And daddy!
Me: No, I'm A+
Nurse: You must be mistaken, that combination isn't possible.
(...)
Nurse: Uh, I'll leave you guys to it.
Me: *pulls out phone and frantically Googles "baby blood type combinations"*
(the nurse was wrong).
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#10

I'm way late to the party with this one but it's about my mum. She had my brother when she was only 16 and had a very hard birth with him. Back in that time the husband wasn't allowed in the labour room and my grandma was at work, when my brother was born he got stuck so they had to use forceps and he was also jaundice so he looked like an Asian baby.
My grandma turns up after work and is looking at all the babies in the room they were kept and asks which one was her daughters baby. The nurse points to my brother and him looking all Asian my grandma storms up to my mum on the ward and said which Asian guy did you sleep with, well my mum thought she was joking so she said I don't know it was to dark to see.
My grandma then proceed to hit my mum, until a nurse came in and explained. My brother is now 44 and as white as white can be.
My grandma turns up after work and is looking at all the babies in the room they were kept and asks which one was her daughters baby. The nurse points to my brother and him looking all Asian my grandma storms up to my mum on the ward and said which Asian guy did you sleep with, well my mum thought she was joking so she said I don't know it was to dark to see.
My grandma then proceed to hit my mum, until a nurse came in and explained. My brother is now 44 and as white as white can be.
38points
#11

Not a doctor, but still a relevant story. When I was born, my father was 100% certain that I was not his because his blood type and my mom's blood type couldn't have produced me. He punched a hole in the wall in the hospital and yelled at my mom refusing to sign the birth certificate because I have A+ blood, my mom has 0 neg and he *was positive* that he had AB neg because that's what his brand new dog tags said (he was in the army at the time). Turns out, they misprinted his dog tags. All his old tags said A positive.
**tl;dr A typo on my dad's army issued dogtags almost caused my parents to divorce.**
**tl;dr A typo on my dad's army issued dogtags almost caused my parents to divorce.**
36points
#12

This is fun.
My wife's cousin's 3rd came out black. She's married to the pastiest Irish guy you can find. Their marriage did not end, but this has created an interesting story. Grandma tells every one that he is just really native american (her husband was 1/2 native). He is now 15 and still, no one in the family will admit that he's black.
My wife's cousin's 3rd came out black. She's married to the pastiest Irish guy you can find. Their marriage did not end, but this has created an interesting story. Grandma tells every one that he is just really native american (her husband was 1/2 native). He is now 15 and still, no one in the family will admit that he's black.
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#13

I'm blonde and the hubs is ginger. Our daughter came out with black hair and jaundiced so she looked very Jersey Shore. Those first pics of us as a family are hilarious. After about 2 weeks, her hair turned to an auburn and her skin tone is pale like us.
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#14

My parents both have blood type O+, while mine is A+. I asked my mom about it when I was learning the basics of genetics in the sixth grade, and she said that the doctor had told her it was some sort of rare mutation. However, now that I'm older, and have remembered it, I'm going to ask her about it again, since I'm pretty sure that my dad wouldn't know the importance of blood types, and I'm positive my mom would have lied in order to make sure I had a good dad.
UPDATE: My mom texted me back. According to her, both she and my dad are definitely type O+, so there goes the forgetting of the blood type theory. Apparently my dad did know enough at the time of my birth to request a DNA test before he signed the birth certificate, and it came back as a 99.8% match, which he only told my mother about after the fact. The cool part is that the same thing supposedly happened with my paternal grandmother, who also had type A blood, but was conceived by two type O parents. There is always a small chance that my mother is being untruthful, but I don't see why she would be at this point since I'm grown. Plus, my dad and I share similar physical features. I hope y'all enjoyed the update.
UPDATE: My mom texted me back. According to her, both she and my dad are definitely type O+, so there goes the forgetting of the blood type theory. Apparently my dad did know enough at the time of my birth to request a DNA test before he signed the birth certificate, and it came back as a 99.8% match, which he only told my mother about after the fact. The cool part is that the same thing supposedly happened with my paternal grandmother, who also had type A blood, but was conceived by two type O parents. There is always a small chance that my mother is being untruthful, but I don't see why she would be at this point since I'm grown. Plus, my dad and I share similar physical features. I hope y'all enjoyed the update.
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#15

Late to the party, but one of my colleagues in Anesthesia once placed an epidural in a heavily tattooed lady. Apparently she had, "Steve's Lunchbox" tattooed above her privates. She gave birth. The OB/GYN turned to the father in the room and said, "Congratulations, Steve."
The guy stated, "My name isn't Steve."
No meltdowns or anything, just an awkward moment.
The guy stated, "My name isn't Steve."
No meltdowns or anything, just an awkward moment.
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#16
This may get buried but my family is of Portuguese and German heritage so we have some super pale people in the family and some who tan insanely quickly. However both my parents are pretty pale.
I was the firstborn. Blue eyed, red haired, pale skinned. The whitest white baby.
Two years later my brother was born. Brown. Brown hair eyes and skin. My mom got so many postman jokes it wasn't even funny. She didn't cheat. My brother just happened to win the Portuguese genes.
I guess this doesn't really belong here but oh well.
I was the firstborn. Blue eyed, red haired, pale skinned. The whitest white baby.
Two years later my brother was born. Brown. Brown hair eyes and skin. My mom got so many postman jokes it wasn't even funny. She didn't cheat. My brother just happened to win the Portuguese genes.
I guess this doesn't really belong here but oh well.
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#17

Not me, but this was an odd one that I heard because I casually knew one of the parents, the father to be exact.
He came in freaking out because his wife had a kid. Well... He was white. She was white. Kid was born a dark malato. He instantly dumps her and starts filing for divorce. She has no idea what the hell happened. She forces a DNA test on him before she'll do anything.
Three months later, well... Turned out it WAS his kid. Her parents, his parents, everyone, thinks he is a jerk. His mother apparently had a black grandmother. So the genes came through extra strong somehow in their kid so many generations down the line.
Safe to say they are going through a hell of a lot of therapy. She never cheated on him and he never believed her despite all her serious protests. Been about a year now and it's better but still not perfect.
He came in freaking out because his wife had a kid. Well... He was white. She was white. Kid was born a dark malato. He instantly dumps her and starts filing for divorce. She has no idea what the hell happened. She forces a DNA test on him before she'll do anything.
Three months later, well... Turned out it WAS his kid. Her parents, his parents, everyone, thinks he is a jerk. His mother apparently had a black grandmother. So the genes came through extra strong somehow in their kid so many generations down the line.
Safe to say they are going through a hell of a lot of therapy. She never cheated on him and he never believed her despite all her serious protests. Been about a year now and it's better but still not perfect.
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#18

I'm not a doctor, but when my godson was born, the nurse told us about this guy who had gotten two girls pregnant at the same time. They both wound up at that hospital just down the hall from each other giving birth hours apart. What a lucky guy.
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#19

My ex had our baby girl. We r both white, baby came out white also. Nothing strange there. 2 years later when we split up I went for custody of the child. Since we wasnt married DNA testing was required. It came back 99.99% not my kid. Color and heritage features of a family can make all the difference. Sometime I wonder how many men are raising some other mans child and never know it.
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#20
This happened to the neighbors family, way back when. They, our white neighbors, had a baby. The baby came out black. The wife swore up and down she didn't cheat. She was really calm, really confident, understood why the 'father' was upset but swore it was his baby. He filed for divorce, she didn't fight it, divorce went through. DNA tests were possible at the time but it took much longer than it does now, so the baby was at least a year old when the dust settled. Baby turned out to be his.
While they both look very white, the Mom is brunette with curly hair and she was adopted as a baby. The assumption has always been that the baby was just a throw back. It took a couple years but they got back together and remarried. He always acts like he felt like a jerk, but she's always been very understanding.
While they both look very white, the Mom is brunette with curly hair and she was adopted as a baby. The assumption has always been that the baby was just a throw back. It took a couple years but they got back together and remarried. He always acts like he felt like a jerk, but she's always been very understanding.
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