When Rebekka Garvison boarded her Spirit Air flight from Chicago to Atlanta earlier this week with an infant in tow, she saw the annoyed looks of her seatmates. When baby Rylee started crying before takeoff, the situation with her in-flight neighbors didn't improve. 
 
 "As soon as we got on the plane at 5:30 a.m. it was very quiet and it was a full flight," Garvison wrote in a Facebook post that's now been shared almost 85,000 times. 
 
 "I noticed that the 2 seats next to me were taken and this couple looked very annoyed and I could tell by their body language sitting right next to me that they weren't thrilled about sitting next to Rylee. Of course I'm already stressing and then Rylee started crying when we were just getting ready to taxi." 
 
 Garvison asked if she could change seats. That, and her new seatmate, made all the difference in the day of this young mom from Kalamazoo, Michigan, who was on a trip to surprise her military husband. 
 
 "[The] next thing I know I was sitting next to this amazing woman! I'm not sure if she could tell how stressed and upset I looked or what, but she turned our day completely around. 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. As soon as she had her, Rylee was looking out the window and 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 kept saying it wasn't a problem at all and it was actually a comforting feeling for her. She even carried her off the plane and held her so I could get the stroller and carseat put back together so I wasn't struggling to try and do it all alone." 
 
 Garvison told ABC News that her "airplane angel" Nyfesha Miller is "an incredible woman who deserves all the accolades she is getting." 
 
 "She [Miller] was such a relief and so calming to me. I was already stressed and then seeing everyone else's faces, that just made it even worse." Garvison said she and Miller are in close contact. 
 
 "Nyfesha Miller," she wrote, "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!! God bless you!!" ||||| The new mom from Kalamazoo, Michigan planned a trip to Fort Rucker, Alabama to surprise her husband, who is in the U.S. Army. In a Facebook post, she wrote that she was nervous about traveling alone with her daughter Rylee, and after boarding the plane she noticed the people sitting next to her didn't seem happy about sitting next to a mom with a baby. 
 
 While on her way to see her husband, Rebekka Garvison became stressed while traveling on a plane with her baby. Then, a kind stranger surprised her. 
 
 "I noticed that the 2 seats next to me were taken and this couple looked very annoyed and I could tell by their body language sitting right next to me that they weren't thrilled about sitting next to Rylee," she wrote. "Of course I'm already stressing and then Rylee started crying when we were just getting ready to taxi." 
 
 According to the post, Rylee continued crying and Garvison asked to move up a couple of rows. She was trying to soothe her daughter at her new seat when the woman next to her, Nyfesha Miller, asked if she could try comforting the child. Garvison agreed. 
 
 "As soon as she 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." 
 
 In the Facebook post, Garvison thanked Miller for her kind gesture and for letting her "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," she wrote. 
 
 Since being posted on Sept. 24, the touching story has been shared more than 69,800 times. Garvison told The Huffington Post she got Miller's contact information so she could send her a token of appreciation for being so kind to Rylee, who will be 4 months old this week. 
 
 "We have messaged every day, and we plan on meeting up again someday for sure," she said. 
 
 This seems like just the start of a beautiful friendship. 
 
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– When new mom Rebekka Garvison boarded her 5:30am flight from Michigan to surprise her military husband in Alabama last week, she was already nervous about bothering her seatmates. Then she saw the looks on their faces, and just about crumbled. "This couple looked very annoyed and I could tell by their body language sitting right next to me that they weren't thrilled about sitting next to Rylee," she writes on Facebook. Then, as the plane started to taxi, 4-month-old Rylee began to cry, and Garvison asked if she could move a few rows up where there were two empty seats. Her new seatmate, Nyfesha Miller, asked if she could help calm the baby. "As soon as she had her, Rylee was looking out the window and stopped crying," Garvison continues. "Rylee ended up sleeping in her lap the whole flight, and Miller "kept saying it wasn't a problem at all and it was actually a comforting feeling for her." Her Facebook post has gone viral, shared more than 87,000 times, and Garvison tells ABC News that Miller is her "airplane angel" who "deserves all the accolades she is getting." She adds to Huffington Post that she and Miller have been messaging every day and that they plan to meet up again someday. "Nyfesha Miller," she writes on Facebook, "you will never understand how happy this act of kindness has made my family.... It brought tears to my eyes while I sat there and watched you and Rylee sleeping next to me." (See what this waitress did for grieving parents.)