A new mum was furious when she thought her husband drank her orange juice - the only drink she could consume postpartum while recovering from the flu.

But the truth was much stranger.

Instead, Sheridan Hockley discovered a tradie stole a 2L bottle of juice from her fridge when he came to work on her windows.

She lives in Edinburgh with her husband and had been down with the flu and a chest infection.

As she’d recently given birth, Sheridan wasn’t allowed to take a lot of medication so she went ‘old school’ and purchased big cartons of orange juice to try and get better.

‘Sheridan knew she had just bought a 2L bottle of orange juice and she went to the fridge to get it but it wasn’t there,’ Brittany, her sister, shared the story on an episode of her podcast, Life Uncut.

The couple lives alone, but Sheridan’s brother-in-law lives in an apartment in the same building.

‘Sheridan went back to her husband Jay absolutely raging,’ Brittany said. ‘She was hormone-filled, sick, and wanted juice.’

‘I cannot believe you drank my juice,’ Sheridan spat out. 'You know I am here, struggling to stay alive, and you’ve drunk the one thing that I can consume.

The couple argued about it but Jay insisted he never touched the juice.

‘Babe, I promise I didn’t drink the juice,’ he said.

Sheridan then went into a rage and asked her brother-in-law, who claimed he was at work all day.

It was at that moment she remembered a tradie came to their house to fix their windows earlier in the day.

The doorbell camera captured an image of the tradie leaving with the unopened carton of juice.