Pregnant mom brings Nerf gun to hospital to keep husband awake: 'Mom hack level 10,000'
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}One funny mom in Wisconsin ensured that her third child would be welcomed into the world with guns blazing by bringing a toy Nerf gun to the hospital so that her husband wouldn’t accidentally fall asleep when his help is needed.
As explained in a Facebook post that has since gone viral with over 16,000 shares and more than 8,500 comments, Samantha Mravik-Miller packed a little something special in her hospital bag before giving birth in December. The woman told Fox News she was inspired to bring the toy weapon as a joke to make sure her husband stayed alert the whole time, sharing the story behind her “Mom hack level 1,0000 [sic.]”
Samantha Mravik-Miller and family, pictured left, and the Nerf gun she jokingly brought to the hospital to keep her husband awake in December, pictured right. (Samantha Mravik-Miller)
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“This post came about because when my son (who’s almost six) was born, my husband slept through him crying when we were in the hospital three nights in a row,” Mravik-Miller said on Tuesday. “I had lost my voice due to being on oxygen and one of the nights my call button was also out of reach, I remember having to throw an empty water bottle at him to try and wake him up to help me get our crying baby.”
Ahead of a scheduled C-section for the December birth, the proud mom, who also has an 11-year-old son, made sure she’d be prepared.
Cleaning up toys in her house on the morning of the C-section, Mravik-Miller stumbled upon a Nerf gun and thought “I’ll have better aim with this than a water bottle!”
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“Being a boy mom, nerf guns are everywhere around here! The darts are the boy’s equivalent to glitter,” she explained.
Mravik-Miller said she totally forgot the Nerf gun was in her bag by the time they arrived at the hospital, until her husband discovered it and was shocked.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“He said ‘Um why is there a Nerf gun in here?’ I said ‘All the better to wake you with!’” she recalled.
“All the nurses thought it was hilarious and I left it out for the weekend. I’m happy to say I never did have to use it!” Mravik-Miller explained.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Many social media commenters praised the woman’s “hack” as “genius” and a “game-changer” for new moms.
“I wish I woulda had this,” one Facebook user wrote.
“I might just need this for life after the baby comes as well,” another teased. “’Wake up loser, our kid’s crying.’”