A mum has been left horrified after realising she has accidentally named all of her children after drugs.
While heavily pregnant with her fourth son, she announced plans to name the boy Oscar.
But when she and her husband revealed the name, a friend immediately burst into loud laughter, she told Kidspot.
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She said: "He was hysterically laughing which made me confused… then he called the baby ‘an ounce’ and it finally clicked."
Until that moment, the mum says, she hadn’t realised that people referred to an “ounce bag of marijuana” as an "Oscar".
She immediately burst out laughing – but then fell silent when it became apparent that her husband’s friend wasn’t finished.
He then pointed out her older three sons’ names also followed the same theme.
She continued: "Charlie was cocaine, and Harry was heroin, I couldn’t see the Max connection at first - but he told me it’s a drink that has had GHB and amphetamines in it.
“I was half mortified and half hysterically laughing, hoping no one would ever pick up on it.”
She said it was a total coincidence, and that each of her sons' names were chosen for specific reasons.
Incredibly, she ended up unintentionally continuing the name trend with her fifth child, more than a decade later.
She added: "My mum had always said she loved the name Billy Jo and wished she could change her name to that, it just always stuck with me, and I loved it.
“It wasn’t until later that I realised that Billy is a slang term for a bong… None of it was intentional which always makes me laugh.
“But I absolutely love their names, and would choose them all again, I can’t imagine them being anything else. My take from it - always find some humour in your life.”
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