When it comes to gender reveal parties, the bar just keeps being raised higher and higher.
Parents-to-be are getting very inventive - one couple even used an alligator for theirs, which is arguably taking things to a dangerous extreme.
As fun and exciting as these parties are, they do occasionally backfire.
Parker Stuard and his girlfriend, Micah, from Tennessee, discovered this when they hosted a gender reveal party at the weekend with friends and family.
Or, should we say Parker specifically found this out, and in a very painful way.
With their baby due in November, the couple were keen to find out its sex, Fox 17 Nashville reports .
The big moment of truth came, with the parents-to-be standing on a deck with party poppers filled with a coloured powder which would show the gender of their baby.
Video shows Parker twisting his party popper to release blue smoke, while Micah struggles to pop hers.
All of a sudden, Parker doubles over in pain, grabbing his crotch.
It turns out that the bottom piece of the party popper exploded and hammered him right below the belt.
Plenty of their friends witnessed the eye-watering footage on Facebook , and were quick to comment.
One wrote: "I laughed way harder than I should have."
Luckily, Parker and Micah saw the funny side, with Micah even joking: "Guess we're never having kids again."
