A baker says she's now wondering whether she should have just told her brother and sister-in-law that they were having a boy ahead of their gender reveal party after they reacted furiously. The young baker reportedly owns her very own bakery, and will often rustle up cakes for gender reveal parties.
The process is 'super simple'. The customer will hand over a piece of paper with a note from their doctor, specifying the baby's gender. She will then apply this to their order, for example, opting for a blue or pink sponge concealed inside an iced cake.
Her older brother and sister-in-law will be welcoming their fourth child in a few months' time. With three sons already, the couple had 'been hoping and praying to finally have a girl'. Indeed, they had initially been so convinced that they went around telling the entire family that they could 'feel' the baby was going to be a girl.
Taking to Reddit, the 23-year-old baker, who goes by the username u/notababygirll, wrote: "They've already started decorating their nursery to cater to a baby girl. They have already been buying/requesting that family members gift them clothes for a baby girl.
"They already have a name picked out and everything. Apparently, their doctor also told them there is a good chance the baby is a girl, but not 100%.."
When they asked her to bake a gender reveal cake, just as she had for their three other children, she happily agreed. She started to panic however when she opened the doctor's note, which stated that the baby was going to be a boy.
Recalling her dilemma, she added: "Now immediately after seeing this note I was thinking to myself 'oh s***' because I knew that they had already started preparing for a baby girl and that the gender reveal was mainly going to be catered around the baby being a girl (pink balloons and decorations etc).
"But I obviously was not about to tell them this before the gender reveal because that would ruin it, so I just proceeded as normal and finished their order."
The day of the gender reveal party arrived, and when the time came to cut into the cake, the expectant parents were shocked to see blue, not the long hoped-for pink. Her sister-in-law burst into tears, while everyone else remained 'awkwardly silent'.
She continued: "My brother calls me out in front of everyone and questions that surely this must be a mistake and not their cake? I confirm with them this is indeed their cake.
"My sister-in-law starts screaming at me that I embarrassed them in front of the entire family by not giving them a 'heads up' about the gender. I asked her isn't that the whole point of a gender reveal? Why would I disclose the gender to you and ruin the day?
"I told both of them that I'm not the one who decided the gender of the baby, so I'm not sure why they're attacking me and it's not my fault they did so much preplanning that it would be a girl."
Not taking this well, her sister-in-law told her to 'shut up' and began hurling insults at her. They've since been contacting her non-stop, demanding a refund. She now wonders whether she should have given them a 'heads up' in advance, even if it meant ruining the surprise.
One person commented: "Their level of disappointment in what their child's gender instead of being happy for this blessing is on them and the way they project it on you says all you need to know about their character as humans."
Another advised: "If you had given them a heads up they would be mad at you for that too. This was a no-win, shoot-the-messenger situation. And do not give them their money back, you did the job you were hired for.
"Tell them to grow up and be glad they can have a family, plenty of people who post here would be thrilled and grateful for a baby of either gender."
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