For many, becoming a mother means taking a backseat to your new baby—but one woman’s best friend ensured the mom felt valued.
A video posted to TikTok by Nika Diwa (@nikadiwa) has gone viral after her husband captured a video of her greeting her best friend and her new baby—but prioritizing her best friend first. Diwa and her husband, Emeka Ihedigbo, spoke to Newsweek about the special moment caught on camera, and the relationship that drove Diwa’s impulse.
“My wife hopped on a plane to meet her best friend’s baby,” Ihedigbo captioned the video. “I was shocked when the first one she ran to was…I’ve never seen the mom acknowledged first.”
Photos from Nika Diwa’s TikTok video. The video has gone viral after Diwa went to visit her best friend and her new baby.
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The video shows Diwa running toward her best friend crying, hugging her, and congratulating her before greeting her new baby.
“I’m so proud of you, you did it,” Diwa said to her friend in the video through tears.
Ihedigbo said it was “extremely moving” to see Diwa embrace her best friend before greeting her new baby.
“Especially since I have witnessed their friendship grow through the years,” he said. “There is so much history behind the moment I was able to capture in that video. It’s so special because, before the babies and husbands, they had each other. And you can really feel that strong bond through the screen.”
As for Diwa, she said she never doubted her primary focus in taking the trip.
“My priority going on this trip was first and foremost, checking on and celebrating my friend who just gave birth,” she said, adding that, of course, she was also excited to meet the baby.
As a mother to two daughters, Diwa said she was led by experience.
“I know how easily the mother can be forgotten, and all the excitement of having a new baby around,” she said. “It was the most natural thing for me to see her out first. We’ve been through so much together, and I was so incredibly proud of her.
After years of relationship trials and errors, the friends are now seeing each other on the other side of romantic heartbreak—with husbands and families of their own.
“We always say that we met each other when we needed our friendship the most,” Diwa said. “We got each other through our hardest relationships and breakups.”
While she and her best friend live miles apart, Diwa said it helps the two maintain an “intentional relationship.” And, she added as a bonus, their husbands are best friends too.
