Traveling with children is often difficult. Running out of milk 35,000 feet in the air with a crying baby on your lap midflight? A nightmare.
One mother lived this nightmare on a recent Philippine Airlines flight. Mother and baby had been at the airport since 9:00 p.m. the evening before the early morning flight. Once on board, the baby began to cry and the despairing mother found she had no formula left to feed her child.
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That’s when 24-year old flight attendant Patrisha Organo stepped in. Organo is a nursing mother of a 9-month old girl named Jade. She knew the stress the mother was feeling, so she offered to breastfeed the baby.
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On a Facebook post, Organo wrote, “After take off, I heard an infant’s cry, a cry that will make you want to anything to help. I approached the mother and asked if everything’s okay. I tried to tell her to feed her hungry child. Teary-eyed, she told me that she ran out of formula milk.”
Organo immediately empathized with the woman, another mother desperate for help. “I felt a pinch in my heart. There’s no formula milk onboard. I thought to myself, there’s only one thing I could offer and that’s my own milk. And so I offered.”
The trio settled into the galley and the mother watched as her baby fed from Organo and fell asleep. “I escorted her back to her seat and just before I left, the mother sincerely thanked me.”
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Organo knew from the way the baby fed and the relief in mom’s eyes that she had made a couple of passengers, if not the entire cabin, very happy with her gift of mother’s milk (and blessed silence). She also earned a new qualification.
“I was right, the flight’s gonna be special, so special not only because I got qualified as an Evaluator but I got to help.”