--- title: 5 Year Old Reacts to Holding Baby Brother: Video description: Being a big brother is a great responsibility canonical: https://time.com/4198243/5-year-old-holds-baby-brother/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-28T17:55:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:25.558Z og:title: Watch This 5-Year-Old Kid Freak Out Holding His New Baby Brother og:description: Being a big brother is a great responsibility og:url: https://time.com/4198243/5-year-old-holds-baby-brother/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This 5-Year-Old Kid Freak Out Holding His New Baby Brother twitter:description: Being a big brother is a great responsibility twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This 5-Year-Old Kid's Hilarious Reaction to Holding His New Baby Brother by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 28, 2016 5:55 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 28, 2016 5:55 PM UTC It’s a lot of pressure for a young kid to hold a newborn sibling for the first time. Five-year-old Hunter Ingersoll was doing a great job cradling his new brother, Wyatt, until things took a dramatic turn. (Don’t worry, everyone was fine.) This concise, 7-second video was [uploaded](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBPhguPHVF0) to YouTube back in July, but is making the rounds again now thanks to a recent [_TODAY_ show segment](http://www.today.com/parents/5-year-old-boy-freaks-out-holding-baby-brother-first-t69521). “It was his first time being around a new baby and he was really nervous. Plus, everyone was looking at him,” the kids’ dad, Jason Ingersoll told TODAY.com. “He seemed ready to hold Wyatt, but he clearly wasn’t.” Since that initial meeting, Hunter and Wyatt have been getting along much better. “He’s really embraced big brotherhood,” Ingersoll said. “The two of them can’t get enough of each other. It’s pretty adorable.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4198243/5-year-old-holds-baby-brother/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4198243/5-year-old-holds-baby-brother/"},"headline":"Watch This 5-Year-Old Kid's Hilarious Reaction to Holding His New Baby Brother","datePublished":"2016-01-28T17:55:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:25.558Z","description":"Being a big brother is a great responsibility","url":"https://time.com/4198243/5-year-old-holds-baby-brother/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4198243/5-year-old-holds-baby-brother/","name":"Watch This 5-Year-Old Kid's Hilarious Reaction to Holding His New Baby Brother"}}]}] ```