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By Jack Beresford
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A woman couldn't resist capturing the moment her partner had a "first-time dad moment" after she asked him to bring the car seat.
Nayomie Mejia from Tampa, Florida, hit record on her phone as soon as she saw what her partner, who has asked not to be named, had done.
"I was tired, in pain, but I had to pull out my phone because of his explanation that the nurses side-eyeing him and him just assuming this was a regular thing," Mejia told Newsweek. "I knew the internet needed to see this first-time dad moment in real time."
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That's something Mejia's partner could well have benefitted from when it came time to take their newborn son home.
It's become something of a regular feature on social media to see videos of dads carrying their newborn children out of the hospital in a car seat. "Hot dad walks," as they have been termed, don't always go to plan though.
Mejia and her partner had planned similar, but it didn't get off to the best of starts when he arrived at the hospital with the car seat still boxed up and in need to putting together.
"I did tell him ahead of time to just bring the car seat, not the whole box, not the base, none of that," Mejia said. "But of course... here he comes rolling into the postpartum room with the entire giant box like it was a suitcase of ours."
Mejia's video, posted to TikTok under the handle @nay.omiee captured the chaos and hilarity that followed as he tried to explain his logic. The clip went viral with 250,000 views and a glut of comments from amused social media users.
"It still being in the box is taking me out," one viewer wrote. "Tell me this your first baby with out telling me this your first baby."
Though Mejia found the whole thing amusing, she was a little sympathetic at the same time. "To be fair, our baby decided to make an early arrival, so we hadn't installed the seat yet, and it was still packed up at home so we ended up bringing the whole box in the car," she said.
"He also said he needed help installing it and didn't want to mess anything up, which is sweet but also, sir... we are literally in the hospital room."
The story has a happy ending though: Mejia was able to help him put the car seat together. "I had to make sure the manual was turned to the correct page so he could reference it while he installed it," she said.
They left hospital on June 22, with Mejia enjoying a well-earned dad walk in the process.
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