Mom-to-Be Tries to Film a Sweet Video Before Her Scheduled Induction. It Didn’t Go as Planned (Exclusive)

At nine months pregnant and hours away from meeting her baby, Kati Davila thought she was about to film one last sweet TikTok with her husband, Thomas Duong. Instead, she captured a hilariously chaotic moment that instantly struck a nerve with anyone who has ever tried to make a “simple” video feel perfect.

“I’d been seeing the trending song all over TikTok and kept showing my husband other creators’ videos, telling him I wanted to do something sweet and playful like kissing while singing along,” Davila tells PEOPLE. “By the time we arrived for my scheduled induction, my mind was racing with a million emotions, but I still wanted to capture the moment.”

In the now-viral clip, Davila and her husband are set up to attempt the singing trend together, but the vibe quickly shifts from romantic to comedic. The pressure of the moment is written all over her face as she tries to keep things moving before someone walks in.

“Oh, my god, we’re having a baby! Can you hurry up?” Davila says in the video, sounding thrilled and overwhelmed all at once. “Because I don’t want them to come and then they see us doing this. It’s gonna be so awkward.”

The pair stops and restarts the sing-along a couple of times as Davila keeps trying to redirect her husband back to the plan. “Just sing to it,” she says, as if sheer determination might get them back on track. When the attempt still doesn’t click, Davila says exasperatedly, “See? And then it feels forced.”

At one point, she even tries to salvage the sweetest part of the trend, hoping that a kiss might bring it back to life. But after yet another failed reset, Davila reaches her breaking point. “I’m done with you,” she declared in the video, completely finished with the performance and the process.

She later posted the video with a caption that summed up the entire exchange in one perfect sentence. “And this is why I can’t take any videos with him lol,” Davila joked, adding, “I was over it and way too pregnant.”

The clip might look like pure comedy, but Davila says there was a real physical reason her patience was so thin that day. “I was diagnosed with polyhydramnios, which means I had more than the normal amount of amniotic fluid,” she tells PEOPLE.

Davila explained that the condition intensified the discomfort she was already feeling late in pregnancy. “That extra fluid caused my body to carry more weight, and by that point I was just completely over the pain and discomfort,” she says.

Now, the video felt like a snapshot of a moment that was emotionally intense and physically exhausting, even if it makes her laugh now.

“Looking back now, the video definitely makes me laugh more because at the time I was so uncomfortable and beyond ready for our son to arrive,” she says. “But it also brings a huge sense of relief, because now he’s here, he’s healthy, and that’s truly more than I could have asked for,” she says.

Viewers also couldn’t get enough of her husband’s reactions, which add another layer to why the TikTok is so funny. His calm energy contrasts sharply with Davila’s growing frustration.

“I would say that I’m the one that likes to plan ahead, almost like a perfectionist, and I do catch myself stressing out too much sometimes,” she admits. “And my husband likes to go with the flow and is always the one to bring the positives to light when things aren’t going a certain way.”

As they step into parenthood, Davila says that balance matters more than ever because so much is out of their hands. “I think this helps create a balance on both sides and we feed off of each other where we support the other, especially in something as stressful as the unknown when you become first-time parents,” she says.

That support system is part of what makes the video land so well, because it doesn’t feel staged or curated. It feels like a couple being fully themselves in a moment that’s supposed to be memorable, even if it isn’t “perfect.”

When Davila posted it, she wasn’t thinking about the internet at all, just about clearing space on her camera roll and sharing something funny. She says she expected a few laughs at most, not the wave of attention that followed.

“I was just looking through my camera roll and stumbled across that video, so I thought, why not just post it and see what reaction I get from it? But I didn’t expect it to blow up the way that it did,” she says.

As comments rolled in, Davila realized just how many people saw their own relationship dynamics in the clip. Some connected to her exhaustion, while others focused on her husband’s patience as the moment unraveled.

“What surprised me was that there’s been a range of reaction and support from other moms that understood my emotions during the pregnancy and made me feel seen in that moment of what I was going through,” she says. She adds that people were also “very supportive of my husband as he was being patient the entire time as he was throughout my pregnancy.”

The reaction reminded Davila that even in the most personal moments, there’s something universal about what couples go through. A silly TikTok trend can turn into a mini portrait of love, stress and humor, all in under a minute.

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Now, she’s thinking differently about the moments she chooses to document as she steps into life with a newborn.

“I do want things to be perfect 100% of the time, but then also with the pureness that comes from a situation that is imperfect makes it feel more grounded,” Davila admits.

She says those imperfect moments often end up being the ones worth keeping, because they feel the most real. “That also makes me appreciate those times more often because it’s more memorable,” Davila adds.