Ireland Baldwin says she found out she was pregnant while at the vet—yes, really

Watching Ireland Baldwin‘s journey as a first-time mom via social media has been both delightful and very real. She keeps her daughter’s face off-camera and makes sure she only shares her own tidbits without sacrificing the privacy of her child, and she’s also surprisingly relatable in her ups and downs as a new mama.

In a recent Instagram post, she shares her pregnancy story—as in, how she found out she was pregnant. And if you’ve followed Ireland on social media at all during the last few years, it probably won’t be surprising to learn she was at the vet. Yes, the vet—an actual animal hospital. But it also somehow makes total sense. Her story is accompanied by a photo of her holding her baby girl, Holland.

“One year ago, I found out I was pregnant,” she writes in her photo’s caption on Instagram. “My best friend came to visit. My boyfriend Andre and I picked her up from the airport and went for lunch. We must have eaten 100 oysters and splurged hard on a few bottles of white wine.”

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“I honestly thought I felt sick from all the shellfish and day drinking but I am historically known amongst my close friends for taking randomized pregnancy tests through the years because I’m paranoid and always think stomach aches are pregnancy or cancer or possibly an alien invasive species,” she admits. “I was also known amongst my girlfriends for always getting my period on the DOT.”

(Pour one out for all the other mamas out there who were like, a minute late on their periods and just knew something was up.)

“So when I realized that also hadn’t shown up on time, well… oysters and wine don’t necessarily do that. While all of this took place, my German shepherd was at an animal hospital being treated for pancreatitis,” she says. “This same day was also a major celebration because my dog was ready to be picked up to go home after weeks in the hospital and the uncertainty that she would make it.”

“My friend Maddie and I drove that evening to the vet and I told Maddie we were making a pit stop at CVS so I could grab a pregnancy test. She rolled her eyes and laughed because she was used to my paranoia,” she continues. “We grabbed the test at CVS across the street from the animal hospital. The checkout lady said ‘GOOD LUCK!’ as we hurried out the door.”

GOOD LUCK INDEED. Ha.

She said she and her friend were sitting in the waiting area when the compulsive need to just pee right on that CVS stick came over her. So she decided there’s no time like the present, and did just that!

“I went to the bathroom, peed on the stick, washed off, and paced back and forth. And there it was. Right there in the Blue Pearl Animal Hospital bathroom was a positive pee stick,” she wrote. “The first day of my next life. I texted Maddie that she needed to join me in the bathroom immediately and she snapped the photo of me hysterically laughing in absolute shock.”

For some women, when you know—you just know.

“In very typical Ireland fashion, I found out I was pregnant in a vet clinic,” she ended her post. And honestly, who doesn’t love a good “how I found out I was pregnant” story? Every part of this one is pure gold.