A couple’s pregnancy announcement — called the “greatest” on social media — is a suspenseful exploration of sorrow and joy.
Rachel and Spencer Lampton of Minnesota posted their pregnancy in a serious-toned video that plays like a PSA for divorce, then pivots to jubilant news: Life is too good to continue as is — so, they’re making a baby to ruin it all.
“Me and Spencer have been married for almost four years now and it’s been so amazing in so many ways,” Rachel said in the video. “But recently, it’s gotten pretty difficult.”
“I’ll always love her,” said Spencer. “It’s just, life has been too much. It’s all been a little too much.”
“We were just way, way ...” said Rachel, with the couple stating in unison, “Too happy.”
The couple aired their so-called burdens.
“The amount of free time that we’ve had is, it’s exhausting to be honest,” said Spencer. Meanwhile, Rachel closed her eyes in frustration, adding, “I mean, you can only have so many hobbies and go on so many dates until you just have to say: Enough is enough!”
Citing their “financial freedom,” Spencer exclaimed, “We are drowning in cash! It’s been really heavy.”
“And our home is just gorgeous!” added Rachel. “So clean all of the time. It drives me absolutely insane!”
Rachel and Spencer said they “needed a change.”
“Let’s f— this s— up!” said Spencer.
The tone of the video changes from somber to silly, as the couple shows their sonogram, jumps up and down and dances on the rooftop of a parking garage.
“F—ing up our lives in the best way we knew how,” read the text in the video.
TikTok and Instagram comments read like film reviews.
“This is an award-winning pregnancy announcement.”
“This deserves an Oscar.”
“Nobody saw that coming.”
“A masterpiece.”
“This took so many turns, I didn’t know what to expect.”
“I’m glad I watched until the end.”
Rachel, 24, tells TODAY.com the video is a non-“flowery” response to a rush of gratuitous warnings about parenthood.
Spencer, 26, added, “Rachel said, ‘We always hear from other people why we should wait to get pregnant, so let’s make those the reasons for doing it: Because everything is ‘too’ good right now.”
To Rachel, who is in her second trimester of pregnancy, it’s a “strange experience” to be dissuaded from planning their future. Sometimes, the feedback made her “overthink” their goals.
“Most young married couples struggle with the pressure of people asking, ‘When are you going to have a baby?’ but we got the opposite,” she says. “They said, ‘Wait as long as you can’ and ‘Your life won’t be the same. It’ll never be just the two of you.’”
One similar comment made Rachel cry.
“It felt like no one in our life would be happy if we were pregnant," she says. “It was discouraging.”
The couple say they took back their power by pointing out potential hurdles in their announcement — before anyone else did so.
“Prove the haters wrong,” says Spencer, adding, “We know we’ll be good parents.”
Rachel and Spencer say their families are “super psyched” for the December birth but everyone — including the couple — will wait until then to know the baby’s sex. “I love surprises,” says Rachel.
This article was originally published on TODAY.com
