Gender reveal parties have become an exciting milestone for many expecting parents, who use confetti-filled balloons or colourful cakes to find out and share their unborn babies? ?gender? (it?s actually baby?s sex, based on their genitals). But for some reason (cough, social media, cough), a growing number of moms- and dads-to-be are opting for increasingly over-the-top and dangerous ways to share the news?sometimes ending in injury and, in the worst cases, death.
Even Jenna Karvunidis, the woman credited with having the first gender reveal party ever in 2008, now says she regrets starting the craze?especially since the daughter she feted with a pink cake all those years ago now prefers to wear suits.
In recent years, gender reveal parties have caused plane crashes, horrific explosions and deadly wildfires?which may be a good indication that it?s time to move away from extravagant announcements (or maybe even the whole concept of pegging a gender on an unborn baby!). Not only do they put an unnecessary emphasis on an unborn child?s gender, but no party is worth the loss of one of the unborn baby?s relatives. Here’s a roundup of seven gender reveal parties that have ended in unnecessary damage, injury and tragedy.
Explosion in New Hampshire, 2021

The most recent gender reveal disaster happened in Kingston, New Hampshire, when 80 pounds of explosives were detonated. No one was injured, but the explosion caused the foundation of neighbouring homes to shake and form cra...