A crowded airplane is the last place anybody wants their baby to start crying and refuse to stop, but that’s exactly what happened to a new mom on her way to see her soldier husband. She couldn’t get her little girl to calm down, and she could see the anger growing among other passengers on the plane. However, what one woman in particular did left the mom absolutely stunned.

Early Thursday morning, Rebekka Garvison drove to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport to board a flight to Atlanta, where she intended to surprise her active-duty husband, who’s an Army fireman, reports MLive. With her newborn baby Rylee in tow, Rebekka got on the plane, and almost immediately the child started throwing an absolute fit, which wasn’t sitting well with the other passengers.

Rebekka and Nick Garvison with their baby, Rylee

As Rebekka tried to calm Rylee, she could see the anger growing on the faces of those around her, yet nothing she was doing could get the child to calm down. As a new mom, she’s still trying to get the hang of how to deal with an upset baby, so she thought that maybe if she could find a little more space, young Rylee would be more comfortable.

After clearing it with a flight attendant, Rebekka moved a few rows up to where there were two unoccupied seats, but baby Rylee continued to wail. The tension in the plane’s cabin continued to grow as the little girl refused to calm down, but things would soon take an interesting turn for the stressed out mother.

Sitting next to the window in her row was a woman named Nyfesha Miller, who was trying to fall asleep before the plane took off, but Rylee’s cries were just too loud for her to be able to do so. Therefore, Miller abandoned the idea for a nap. Instead, she started some small talk with Rebekka. As the child continued to wail, Miller explained to Rebekka that her baby girl absolutely hated to be still, then something incredible happened.

Miller asked politely if she could try to calm Rylee down, to which Rebekka obliged. No sooner than Miller took Rylee, the baby started to calm down as she looked out the window at the city’s lights while the plane taxied down the runway, and before both women knew it, the child was sound asleep.

Nyfesha Miller holding Rylee

“(Miller) asked a few times if I wanted her back,” Rebekka said. But she was grateful the baby was sleeping, and beyond grateful that Miller stepped in to help when she needed it most, so she let her hold Rylee for the entire flight as the two women chatted away.

By the time they reached Atlanta, the two had become friends. Miller saw to it that Rebekka and Rylee got all of their stuff off the plane. The two parted ways, but the experience wasn’t lost on the tired mother.

Later that day, she wrote a heartfelt thank you to Miller using Facebook, where she recounted the events on the plane. Since she wrote it, the post has been shared over 80,000 times and received hundreds of comments from people remarking about how incredible Miller’s act of kindness was.

https://www.facebook.com/rebekka.crow.31/posts/1684310208470064

A portion of the post reads:

“Nyfesha Miller, you will never understand how happy this act of kindness has made my family. 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. I just couldn’t believe how that ended up working out and how caring you were to us. Thank you SO much!!”

A newborn baby can be a nightmare for parents to have to deal with since it can be impossible to calm them down, especially if it’s their first child. Kudos to Ms. Miller for stepping up and using her own skills as a parent to help a struggling new mother, who hasn’t quite gotten the hang of things.

It’s great to see there are still such awesome and caring people in the world, and it’s even better to see the Lord at work. God works in mysterious ways, and He gave both these women a blessing — a comfort to one and rest to the other.