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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/mejakola on 2025-06-24 03:12:47+00:00.

I saw all the videos in health class in middle school and high school, but I don’t think it quite prepares you for the actual… Moment.

Also side note, hate me in the comments if you want, most newborns look like little wicked aliens to me until after the first few days. They’re cute, but not immediately.

After hours of excruciating labor and complications with the medicine and dilation, the decision was made to go ahead and do a C-section. They took my wife to prep her in the OR. A nurse got me all gowned up and escorted me in. I sat at the head of the table comforting my wife while the doctors worked on the other side of the curtain.

Finally it was time… The doctor asked, “Dad do you want to stand up and see your son?” I was so excited and naively unprepared for what I was about to witness…

I stood and the next 5 seconds were the longest of my life. They still had the big mouth bass fish ring opening her stomach. My eyes followed around my wife’s intestines until I realized it was the umbilical cord, with a color and veins I can’t describe. Then I saw my son. My baby boy was all grayish blue, still covered and dripping in amniotic “cheese.”

First words out of my mouth?? “IT’S A GREMLIN!!!”

The whole O.R. busts out laughing except the charge nurse. She got little man all cleaned off and brought him to Mom and set him on her chest while saying, “You’re definitely going to be a mama’s boy. She knows you’re a sweet baby not a evil gremlin.”

TL;DR took one look at my son after C-section and screamed “it’s a gremlin!” In the middle of an O.R. full of doctors. And yes, wife divorced me a year and a half later.