This just happened 5 minutes ago and I’m cringing so hard at myself in the waiting room. My wife and I are expecting a baby and we’re at the OB right now and one of my coworkers (who works in another department and we don’t really know each other that well) is here.

She’s not visibly pregnant and my awkward ass makes eye contact with her and we both kind of awkwardly wave and say hi and I blurt out “don’t worry I won’t tell anyone. Congratulations!” And she shrugs at me and awkwardly laughs and looks away and then she gets called back and I realize I don’t even know if she’s really pregnant, she could just be here to see the gynecologist or because she’s dealing with infertility and even if she IS pregnant, what if it’s not good news?? What if she doesn’t want to be congratulated? I’m so fucking awkward omg, I will be cringing about this interaction for so long I hate myself.

TL;DR summary: I stupidly congratulated a coworker for a pregnancy I don’t even know she has and have shoved my foot so far down my throat I want to cry

Edit: I appreciate all the comments empathizing with how utterly stupid I feel about this situation. Believe me, I understand how massively screwed up it was to say what I said and if I had even paused for half a second to think before spewing word vomit I never would have said it. Alsoooo, to all the people assuming I am a man, my wife and I are both women and this is my gyno too lol. Not sure if that makes my stupidity worse or better but take with that info what you will.