--- title: Video: Boy Exasperated By Pregnant Mom description: A mom told her son that she was pregnant and his said the news was exasperating canonical: https://time.com/3207352/boy-says-pregnant-mom-is-exasperating/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-28T19:27:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:40.441Z og:title: Boy Finds The Idea of His Mom Being Pregnant Simply "Exasperating" in Adorable Video og:description: "What were you thinking?!" "It's too much!" 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A mother named Shanee Gibson Hart of Fort Lewis, Washington, posted a [video](https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=745598825497782&pe) on Facebook and YouTube describing the moment she told her son Tré and daughter that they are going to have a new sibling, and the news sends her son off on a tirade that would make Gordon Ramsey blush. “What were you thinking?!” he wails. “It’s too much! This makes no sense!” Turns out that the kid is not preaching from a [replacement level fertility ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%5Ffertility%5Frate)platform, it’s just that he’s really worried his mom and dad will replace him. “You have two babies! You keep loving them forever not having another baby!” Tré yells from the back seat. His mother assures him that his parents will love him and his little sister forever, which temporarily calms the kid. The détente is broken, though, when his mother points out that his baby sister looks happy about the news and the boy realizes he has a very important question to ask: Pointing his finger at his mom, he demands to know, “What kind of baby is it?” His mother patiently talks him down, and the boy finally concedes that the baby can exist, but only on one condition: “Buy me some earplugs.” **MORE**: [Here’s The World’s Fastest Dog on Two Paws](http://time.com/3195860/jiff-worlds-fastest-dog/) **MORE**: [This Lamb Bouncing Gleefully Down a Hallway Will Remind You That Everything’s Gonna Be Okay](http://time.com/3206306/lamb-bouncing/) ## Transcript [ NOISE ] What makes a video go viral? Here's our guess. Mishka, I love you. [ NOISE ] Number one, cute animals. [ LAUGH ] Charlie, Charlie bit me. [ MUSIC ] [ FOREIGN ] [ MUSIC ] [ UNKNOWN ], we're going to Disneyland. Oh, my god. Number two, cute kids. [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] Number 3, remixes. [ MUSIC ] Whoa, oh my God, oh my God. [ LAUGH ] Oh my God. Whoo. Number four, spontaneity. Look at all those Number five. Cute kids and cute animals. Put this all together and it will certainly end up on your Facebook feed. 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