Rebekka Garvison, a first-time mom from Michigan, got the help she needed from a complete stranger on her 5:30 am flight to Fort Rucker, Alabama.
After boarding the plane with her infant daughter, Rylee, for the first time Garvison was hit with a wave of panic at the sight of a very-packed and very quiet flight. And to make matters worse, she arrived to her assigned seat (with little Rylee in tow) to some less than pleased looks from the people sharing her row.
Determined to make the trip to see her military husband, who is stationed in Alabama, the pair settled into their seats.
Shortly after Rylee began to cry, despite the new mom’s effort to quiet her—prompting Garvison to begin her frantic search for a different seat (asking a flight attendant for help) that ultimately landed her next to Nyfesha Miller.
At the sight of the stressed woman, Miller offered some assistance to Garvison—by offering to hold the baby. She not only got little Rylee to stop crying immediately, but held the sleeping infant until they reached the airport gate in Alabama.
"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 in a Facebook post thanking Miller. "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."
The new mom added in another Facebook post, “Just comes to show you how little acts of kindness really do go a long way.”
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