Man Cries After Wife Tells Him She's Pregnant After Trying for Nearly 17 Years—Watch the Emotional Video

Dana Griffin-Graves posted on YouTube a video of her husband Arkell Graves' reaction

By Corinne Heller Oct 02, 2015 8:35 PMTags
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This video may make you cry tears of joy.

That's what Virginia man Arkell Graves, 41, did when his wife, Dana Griffin-Graves, 41, revealed some pretty exciting news: She's pregnant.

Griffin-Graves recently posted on YouTube a cellphone video she had recorded secretly of his reaction—tears of pure joy—after he discovered she had placed a package of buns and photos of an ultrasound inside their oven. The clip has gone viral.

"Come here!" he says, sobbing and holding his arms out to his wife.

"Due February 16th," she tells him.

"And it's a boy," she adds, to which he just about loses it.

The couple had been struggling for nearly 17 years to have a child and Griffin-Graves was "shocked" when she found out in in mid-September she was more than four months pregnant, WRIC-TV in Richmond, Virginia reported. Griffin-Graves had conceived before but her pregnancies were unsuccessful.

"After 4 miscarriages and 1 stillborn birth, we had given up on the idea of having babies of our own, especially at our age...But God!" she wrote on YouTube.

In an interview with the station, Griffin-Graves called her husband's reaction "priceless."

"I wasn't expecting that at all," she said.

"I've never been that excited before in my life," Graves said. "And I mean, not mainly for myself. For her."