Stranger Helps Calm Crying Baby, Stressed Mother on Plane

A Facebook post about a stressed out mother with a crying baby on an airplane who found calm in the kindness of a stranger sitting next to her has gone viral.

Rebekka Garvison was boarding a plane from Chicago to Atlanta with her baby daughter Rylee on Sept. 24 when Rylee started crying inconsolably. The flight was full, and the other passengers were quiet but annoyed, according to Garvison. This included the couple who were sitting next to her.

"I could tell by their body language sitting right next to me that they weren't thrilled about sitting next to Rylee," Garvison wrote in a Facebook post later. 

Garvison then switched to a seat that had an empty seat next to it. Further down the row was a woman named Nyfesha Miller, who heard the crying baby and asked if she could try to calm her. Garvison passed Rylee to Miller, hopeful for a solution to stop the crying.

"As soon as she (Miller) had her, Rylee was looking out the window and stopped crying," Garvison wrote. "When we got in the air she fell right asleep and slept in her lap the whole flight until we got to our gate. She kept saying it wasn't a problem at all and it was actually a comforting feeling for her."

Miller even carried Rylee off the plane to allow Garvison to gather up all her other luggage.

The act of kindness has since gone viral via Garvison's Facebook post. Since she posted it last week, the post has been shared nearly 100,000 times.

"Nyfesha Miller, you will never understand how happy this act of kindness has made my family," Garvison wrote. "You could've just rolled your eyes and been irritated like everyone else, but you took her and held her the entire flight and let me get some rest and peace of mind. It brought tears to my eyes while I sat there and watched you and Rylee sleeping next to me." 

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