Mom praises kindness of stranger who calmed crying baby on flight

Mom praises kindness of stranger who calmed crying baby on flight

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CHICAGO — Flying with children is no picnic, but one woman credits an "angel" seatmate for making a recent flight heavenly instead of hellish.

Rebekka Garvison was excited to surprise her husband Nick — who is currently serving in the U.S. Army — at Fort Rucker in Alabama, but it meant flying alone from their home in Michigan with the couple's infant daughter Rylee for the first time, CBS News reports.

When Garvison boarded the full plane around 5:30 in the morning, her nerves were rattled by the annoyed looks from silent passengers around her. As she took her seat with Rylee in her lap, the couple sitting next to her wasn't happy about their new neighbors.

"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.

And then, as luck would have it, Rylee began to cry. No matter what Garvison did, the baby was inconsolable. As Garvison's stress levels rose, so did baby Rylee's screams.

Desperate, Garvison asked a flight attendant if she could move to a row in front of her with two empty seats. She scrambled to make the change, and that's when she met her "angel."

"Next thing I know, I was sitting next to this amazing woman," Garvison wrote. "I'm not sure if she could tell how stressed and upset I looked or what, but she turned our day completely around."

> Something amazing happened to me today and I will never be able to express how grateful I am for it. If anyone has ever... > > Posted by [Rebekka Garvison](https://www.facebook.com/rebekka.crow.31) on [Thursday, September 24, 2015](https://www.facebook.com/rebekka.crow.31/posts/1684310208470064)

The woman, Nyfesha Miller, asked Garvison if she could take a shot at calming the baby, and when the new mom handed Rylee over, her daughter immediately stopped crying.

"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 wrote.

Miller's kindness didn't stop there. In her post, Garvison said Miller carried the baby off the plane so she could get her stroller and car seat arranged.

"She kept saying it wasn't a problem at all and it was actually a comforting feeling for her," Garvison wrote.

Along with her post, Garvison included photos she snapped of Miller with her sleeping daughter on the plane. The post has been shared over 100,000 times, and hundreds have commented, praising the stranger for her kindness.

"She [Miller] was such a relief and so calming to me," Garvison told ABC News. "I was already stressed and then seeing everyone else's faces, that just made it even worse."

Garvison says she plans to stay in contact with her new friend, and vows to always remember her kindness in the face of a very stressful situation.

"Nyfesha Miller, you will never understand how happy this act of kindness has made my family," she 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."

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