You never made me feel inadequate: A mother writes a heartfelt letter to the woman who helped comfort her screaming twins as she flew home to say goodbye to her dying father

You never made me feel inadequate: A mother writes a heartfelt letter to the woman who helped comfort her screaming twins as she flew home to say goodbye to her dying father.

A mother of five has written a heartfelt open letter to the woman who helped comfort her screaming twins as she flew home to say goodbye to her dying father.

Molly Schultz, a 27-year-old stay-at-home mom and blogger, recounted how the stranger gently rocked her then seven-month-old daughter and gave her a bottle during their Delta flight from Minneapolis to Detroit in 2016.

‘You knew I needed you when I was too scared to ask,’ the mom wrote in the thank-you letter published by Love What Matters. ‘I was flying back to the town where I grew up to say goodbye to my dying father and had no idea when I would get home’.

Molly explained that she couldn’t leave her identical twins Lennon and Halen at home with her husband, Tim, and their little girls Presley and Sawyer because she was exclusively breastfeeding at the time.

They had already flown from Washington State to Minneapolis and had a “ridiculous” layover before boarding the plane to Detroit.

The mom recalled that the twins had become “inconsolable in mid-flight” because they were no longer following their normal schedule. She also believes they were feeding off her “frenetic energy”, which contributed to their crying fits.

Molly admitted that she muffled her daughters’ cries on the plane because she felt so helpless and distraught. She noted that no one on the plane knew that she had made a habit of muffling her daughters’ cries because one of her twins was crying all day.

She knew that her daughter was crying mainly because she wanted to breastfeed her, but she couldn’t understand the logistics of breastfeeding twins in the middle of an airplane. That’s when a stranger came to her rescue.

You sat right next to me in that empty seat and grabbed the girl I was bouncing on my lap,” Molly recalls. I handed you a bottle of pre-prepared milk and you cradled my daughter in your arms, singing her a lullaby and looking into her eyes.

I was almost embarrassed by my inability to do the same for my own children, but I was so grateful for your grace in that moment. You never made me feel inadequate,” she added.

On the contrary, you showed the greatest empathy I’ve ever known, and miraculously so in the darkest moments of my life.

Molly praised the woman for swaying and singing to her daughter as if they were family, and for loving all three of them in their time of need.

The mom said she couldn’t remember if they discussed why she was flying alone with the twins, but stressed that she would never forget how the woman made her feel at that moment.

I don’t even remember your name or where you’re from. Honestly, I don’t even remember what you look like. But I so wish I could have remembered,” she said, admitting that she would have loved to take a photo of herself holding her daughter.

Thank you so much. Thank you for treating me with dignity and love when I desperately needed it,” Molly wrote at the end of her missive.

I hope this letter reaches you and that you remember our photo from that flight. I hope you know that you saved a mother from a severe mental breakdown at 35,000 feet.”

Molly’s twins turned three this month, and in addition to their daughters, she and Tim are also raising her half-brother, Easton, whom they adopted after the death of their father.

Source: dailymail.co.uk