Before Bailee Heiman welcomed her first child, she knew she wanted her mother-in-law Jamie Heiman to be present for the birth.
The 28-year-old shared a video of herself inviting her mother-in-law to join her in the delivery room on TikTok, where it has quickly gone viral, picking up over 1 million views since it was posted on April 2.
In the video, Bailee Heiman can be heard off-camera asking Jamie Heiman, "Do you want to be in the room when the baby comes?"
"Are you freaking kidding me? Are you serious?" Jamie Heiman, 57, responds, before enthusiastically accepting the offer and sharing a heartfelt embrace with her daughter-in-law. "Yes, I'd love to!"
Bailee Heiman, who lives in the Tri-Cities area in Washington with her husband Tanner Heiman and their newborn son, said she knew she wanted to record her mother-in-law's reaction because "she has a great reaction to everything."
"I knew that she wasn't expecting it, and I knew that she was probably going to freak out when I asked her," Bailee Heiman told "Good Morning America," adding that she and Jamie Heiman share an "amazing" and "close" relationship.
Jamie Heiman, meanwhile, said the invitation was indeed a surprise, one delivered as she was busy preparing some seed pods for her garden.
"I just kind of froze for a minute, and I'm thinking, 'Did I just hear what I thought I heard?' And so I took my glasses off my head and threw them down and looked at her, and I said, 'Are you serious?' And then I just kind of freaked out. It was the best surprise ever," the mom of four and grandmother of nine recalled.
"Once I looked over at her and saw her face, I was like, 'Absolutely, yes.' It was like, my dream come true," she added.
Bailee and Tanner Heiman's first child, a son named Turner, was born April 4. Turner is Jamie Heiman's ninth grandchild.
Bailee Heiman said although laboring with her first child was "exhausting" and "rough," she was grateful to have support from her doula and her family, including her husband, sister, mother and mother-in-law, during the process.
"I labored for 47 hours and pushed for four hours. It was long and exhausting, but we did it so everybody's safe and healthy," the mom of one said.
"They were cheering me on from the beginning, which I needed. I didn't know I needed it, but I think it really helped me pull through with all those hours of laboring," she added.
