A husband is probably in the dog house after his wife was forced to deliver their baby with a ridiculous, silly face on her belly. Fortunately, Kate Mulford can see the lighter side of things.
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She said her husband Taylor drew the silly face on her pregnant belly about three weeks before her due date. Fate had a different idea.
"I was about 3 weeks from my due date, and my belly was hard to ignore," Mulford tells PEOPLE. "It had become a focal point for my husband and kids — always touching it, talking to it, trying to feel the baby move."
"My husband, being the joker he is, picked up a nearby marker and before I knew what he was doing, drew the MOST ridiculous face on it. Of course, our kids collapsed into fits of giggles. I did as well, it was so funny," she explains.
Silly Face on the Belly
"He had never done that before with any other of my previous pregnancies, but I think he had the idea this time because he knew he had an attentive (and easy to humor) audience!"
However, the same night, Mulford went into labor. The silly face wouldn't come off, so they went off to the hospital with the silly face.
"When he drew on my belly, neither of us assumed it would still be there by the time the baby came since I was still a few weeks away from my due date and had never gone into labor early before," she said. "When my water broke that night, and we were getting our things ready to go, it dawned on us that the drawing would be coming with us and we had a good laugh! It was kind of like, 'Of coooooourse it would happen tonight.'"
The hospital staff found the whole thing hilarious, and the pregnant mom ended up going viral online.
She said, "I distinctly remember the nurses laughing when they saw my belly and asking what the story was behind it. I am sure having a patient with a large, crazy blue face on their belly was a first for them."
