Newsflare’s 7 best gender reveals
Gender reveal parties have become a huge part of a couple’s pregnancy journey, with parents-to-be producing some of the most original and outrageous ways of revealing their baby’s gender. From enlisting the help of a pet alligator, to low-budget reveals with a toilet as the main feature, discover some of Newsflare’s best headline-making gender reveals.
1 - Florida couple uses their pet alligator for gender reveal party
Stacie Childs-Wright and husband Chad Wright had their 59-year-old pet alligator, Amos, pop a balloon to reveal the sex of their which will be the couple’s 10th child. Chad, who works for the Florida Wildlife Commission, has had the elderly gator for 14 years now, and Stacie said that she even had plans to lay out on top of the gator with her newborn.
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2 - Boy hoping for a baby brother takes parents’ gender reveal very badly
This boy took his parents’ gender reveal hilariously badly after his Mother popped a balloon that showered the room with pink confetti. The boy, who was hoping for a baby brother, reacted to the gender reveal by falling onto his knees and shouting “Nooo!” repeatedly, followed by devouring a whole tub of ice cream and deciding that he will now live with his grandma and not his three sisters.
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3 - Dad uses coloured toilet water in hilarious low budget gender reveal
Watch the hilarious moment this dad-to-be prepared a low-budget gender reveal using toilet water and some printer ink to show excited guests the sex of his baby. The partygoers are seen to all crowd into the decorated toilet for the grand reveal, whipping out their phones for the moment the new dad pushed the flush button.
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4 - Missouri couple get creative by using a dunk tank for their gender reveal
Drew and Abigail Stanton had a unique way of finding out the gender of their baby: by using a dunk tank. The video, filmed in De Soto, Missouri, Drew Stanton is seen sitting nervously inside the dunk tank waiting for Abigail to hit a target with a ball so that they could find out the sex of their baby. Abigail finally hits the target and Drew is submerged into pink water while the whole family erupts into a chorus of cheers.
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5 - Couple hire a plane for sensational gender reveal
This Brazilian couple enlisted a plane to help them carry out an epic gender reveal. A photographer caught the moment the plane released coloured water over the excited couple as it flew past. The photographer said that the spectacle “illuminates this beautiful magical moment over the baby”.
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6 - Gender reveal gone wrong! Fireworks fail sends party-goers running for cover
At a home in Philadelphia this couple decided to use fireworks to reveal the gender of their baby - little did they know it would end so badly. In the footage, the couple lights some fireworks that have been set up on a drying rack. After they were lit, some of the fireworks fell down and ended up firing at the party-goers, who immediately ran for cover. Luckily no one was seriously hurt, but a few people did get minor burns after being hit by the fireworks.
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7 - Father-to-be attempts to make elaborate gender reveal cake, and this is the result…
This amusing footage shows a father-to-be attempting to use a cake to reveal the gender of his child, only for a doll to spring out of the icing making it look like the cake has given birth. The filmer wrote that her partner had built the cake around the doll “with the intention of having the baby pop out of the cake - instead it looked like the cake gave birth!”.
