A crying child may be what no one wants while flying on an airplane. It’s unfortunate for Ashley Dowell and her husband when that was exactly what happened during their family trip in 2019. The couple hailed from Rockford, Illinois, were taking a family vacation to Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Aboard the ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐ฐ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ with her were her husband, her 7-year-old, her 4-year-old and her 9-month-old baby girl. Alayna, her youngest, began crying instantly when the plane took off.
Flying for the first time may be scary for anyone, especially a tiny baby girl. There is a lot to take into consideration, like the extreme heights and the turbulence. The child may be startled due to constant movement as a plane gliding through the air isnโt typically as calming as being rocked back and forth.
This familyโs sweet baby was crying loudly while she was aboard her very first flight. Some of the other passengers seemed to be understanding of the situation, but some showed ๐๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ฒ๐๐ง๐๐. While traveling in the air, a male flight attendant came over to ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ the family and grabbed their crying child. He needed to calm her down.
The Dowell family was off to a rocky start for their vacation and they just wanted to help wipe Alaynaโs tears away and calm her down. Luckily for them, a flight attendant on board the airplane made the decision to come over and do what he could to ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ซ๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐ any longer.
During an interview with Good Morning America in May 2019, Dowell talked about her experience on the airplane with her consistently crying baby girl. โWeโre feeling like weโre those people on the plane with the baby thatโs crying and everyone wants to kick you off the plane,โ she told the news outlet.
The couple had tried everything they could to calm their little girl down, but nothing seemed to work. The crying had been going on for ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ญ๐๐ฌ before a flight attendant decided he was going to try to put an end to it.
Flight attendant ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฅ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ, 32, had held Alayna when the family first got on the plane and needed to put their bags away in the overhead compartments. He came over to the family and offered to help and hold her once again, as her crying had still not let up. Dowell said: โWe were in such a small, confined area, we were really ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐,โ
โHe was so good with her, and so nurturing and caring, and pretty instantaneously, she calmed down.โ
It took around 15 minutes for her little girl to fully calm down as Hunt held her and walked up and down the plane aisles. “He was ๐ซ๐ฎ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ her back, walking up and down the aisle like it was just a day in the park,” Dowell said about the way Hunt calmed her crying child. “Once he calmed her down, he handed her back to us, and then we were able to get her back to sleep.”
Dowell posted about the ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ on Facebook, where she was later able to reconnect with Hunt. She wrote about the ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐-๐ก๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ง๐๐๐ง๐ญ in a social media post on May 22, 2019. โThere is so much negativity in this world, we need more stories like this shared! It would mean so much to me. There is still good in this world.โ, she wrote.
Hunt talked about the reason why he helped out the family. Hunt said:”First of all, I love babies, and I want like a hundred of them,”. The flight had just taken off and the baby had not been able to stop crying. Hunt explained how he couldnโt do anything for a while, as it was a ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง to stay seated during the first few minutes of take-off. “He said: There was nothing I could do at the time because the seat belt sign was on, and so as soon as they turned off the seat belt sign, I went straight to her,”.
Reportedly, Hunt got creative and made a rattler out of pretzels with a lid on it to help distract her. The fight attendant talked about how he knew he needed to help out the infant’s family. Hunt said: “In a world full of hate, I like to be a shining light to someone who needs it,”
“I could tell in that particular moment her and her husband kind of needed a little light.”
The sweet flight attendant saw a family in need and decided to help out. He walked their baby up and down the aisles as he worked on ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง. Finally, the baby girl quieted down as she was handed back to her family โ with a fun vacation ahead of them.
Source: Good Morning America, Apost
