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He knew his wife was pregnant before she did

Rachel's husband had a vasectomy months before. So when Rachel started acting a little bit pregnant, the two of them made a joke of it. more

She was tired a lot. She was hungrier than normal and a little nauseous. They knew she couldn't be pregnant, until it dawned on them that they had never gotten the results from his five-month checkup.

He called the doctor and learned it was possible after all. "Apparently my procedure was not successful," he says, "and they forgot to tell me." A story that opens with a vasectomy makes plenty of people expect a different ending. Many end up praising him instead, for trusting his wife and checking with the doctor first.

Then he took matters into his own hands. During the night he disabled their toilet so it wouldn't flush. In the morning, after Rachel used the bathroom, he had what he needed for a pregnancy test they had lying around. It came back positive, and Mama, as he puts it, doesn't know about it yet. Not many guys in history, he points out, have found out for sure before their wife did.

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Rachel's husband had a vasectomy months before.

The timing gets better. While he plans, Rachel is at a baby shower. She comes home to flowers and a card he made. "To my baby mama," it reads. "If you ever worried that life would be a bore, put that fear aside. You are now a mommy of four." The positive test sits behind it.

Her first words are "What? Shut up." Then come "For real?" and "How did you do that?" He asks if she remembers the toilet not working. "This time I knew before you," he tells her. She is a little bit in shock and not quite sure she should believe him.

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Rachel comes home from a baby shower to flowers, a homemade card and a positive test.

The plan is to tell nobody, not even their parents, until they know what they are having. Rachel gets a Harmony test that will reveal the baby's gender in 7 to 10 days. Meanwhile a bump starts to show. When he says she is getting fat, "it just happens to be a baby," she has one word for him. "Rude."

Keeping quiet is harder than it sounds. After a day with family, he admits the secret is eating him alive, and the bump is getting harder to hide. At the table, the kids are let in on it. "Surprise," they hear. "Mommy has a baby." Someone small guesses baby girl, and the answer is that nobody knows yet.

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The kids hear that a new baby is on the way.

He leaves the doctor's office holding the results. The plan is for a friend to open them and tuck a pink or blue outfit into a box, so the whole family can find out together. When the moment comes, it is another boy. "Not another one," comes the reply, more than once. Jackson gets another brother, the gang grows to four boys, and the card turns out to be right. Life will not be a bore.