Kindness in mid-air: Stranger quiets new mom’s crying baby during flight (1431 hits)
One woman’s act of kindness to a complete stranger has gone viral after she offered to hold the new mom’s crying baby during a long flight.
It’s a nightmare situation for even the most senior traveller: Everyone’s buckled in, prepared for takeoff, and someone’s newborn baby won’t. Stop. Crying.
Rebekka Garvison was boarding an early-morning flight from Michigan to Alabama on Sept. 24 with her infant daughter Rylee. They were travelling to Fort Rucker to visit...
“I have been planning this trip to surprise [my husband] for quite some time and have been most stressed about flying alone with Rylee and all of our stuff to lug around with no help,” Rebekka wrote in a Facebook post last week. “Of course I’m already stressing and then Rylee started crying when we were just getting ready to taxi.”
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Garvison asked a flight attendant to move her to another row as young Rylee’s crying got worse.
That put her next to Nyfesha Miller. And that changed everything. “I’m not sure if she could tell how stressed and upset I looked or what, but she turned our day completely around,” Garvison wrote. “Rylee wouldn’t stop crying no matter what I would try and do. … So she had asked if I didn’t mind if she tried. And of course I let her.”
According to Garvison, Rylee stopped crying the minute Miller began cradling her, and the two of them – the crying infant and the complete stranger – fell asleep in each other’s arms.
