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After years of struggles, father-to-be weeps when he finds out wife is pregnant

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A mother-to-be surprises her husband with the news that she’s pregnant, and his reaction is sure to give you all the feels.

Dana Griffin-Graves and Arkell Graves from Dinwiddie County, Virginia, have been trying to have a child for 17 years. After four miscarriages and one stillborn birth, they had all but officially given up, Dana explains in the video description on YouTube.

The couple began to slowly to come to grips with their struggles. As her heart began to heal, Dana began channelling her energy towards her weight loss efforts, Fox40 News reports.

Dana started walking with friends on a regular basis, but she seemed to be the only one of the bunch that was not losing any weight. She decided to visit her doctor, and that’s when she received the shocking news. Dana is five months pregnant.

When it came time to share the news with her husband, Dana decided to plant obvious clues in their kitchen. She placed literal buns in the oven, along with the baby’s ultrasound pictures next to the buns.

In the video below, Dana and Arkell are preparing dinner when she tells her husband to look in the oven. It takes a few moments for Arkell to realize what’s going on, but once he’s deciphered the code, his reaction was nothing short of priceless.

As Arkell turns to the camera with a huge smile on his face, he proclaims “you’re pregnant” several times before Dana reveals that she’s already 19 weeks along.

Unable to control his emotions, Arkell bursts into tears, just after Dana tells him the baby boy is due on Feb. 16, 2016.

“His reaction was priceless,” Dana told WRIC. “I wasn’t expecting that at all. I knew that he would probably be emotional but I definitely was not expecting the reaction I received.”

Dana captured the special moment on video, a moment she planned to share with their family, but the video has already garnered more than 1.6 million views.

“I’ve never been that excited before in my life and I mean not mainly for myself, for her,” Arkell told WRIC.

Dana promises to keep everyone updated on the couple’s happy news.