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1 Kind Stranger Offered to Help a Struggling Mom in a Doctor's Office, and We're Smiling Ear to Ear

26/10/2018 - 05:00 PM


I was in the waiting room at the doc office today and this lady walked in with her sleeping baby! They handed her...

Posted by Natasha Crittenden Wilson [0] on Tuesday, October 23, 2018 [1]

Natasha Crittenden Wilson, a woman from Florence, AL, knows that sometimes a little kindness from a stranger can go a very long way [2]. In a now-viral Facebook post [3], Natasha described how a thoughtful man gave a mom a helping hand at the doctor's office on Oct. 23, and it's the purest thing ever.

"I was in the waiting room at the doc office today and this lady walked in with her sleeping baby, [4]" she wrote. "They handed her paperwork to do and as she was sitting there trying to figure out how to hold her sleeping baby [5] while filling out the paperwork. This man, from across the room, asks her if she would like for him to hold her baby while she did her paperwork!! She smiled and said that would be wonderful!! This man went over there and rocked and loved on that baby like he was his!! My heart melted!!!"

So far, the sweet post has racked up more than 1 million reactions and more than 332,000 shares, proving that sometimes a simple gesture can make a world of difference.


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