Stressed out moms worst travel nightmare becomes reality after her baby starts crying on plane

As parents, we all know that flying with kids, toddlers, and babies is not fun.The anxiety and stress parents feel while boarding is immense, regardless of the age of their children.Charlotte Heinrich Freeman recently learned that the hard way while traveling with her two children: her toddler daughter, Mimi, and her son, Freddie, who had just turned one.

She posted a video to her Instagram after a flight home to Singapore left her thoroughly shaken.“I wanted to let you know about an incident we had on the plane where Freddie was a little bit unsettled and crying a bit, and this lady took it upon herself to scream across the cabin at the top of her lungs, ‘Shut up,’” Freeman recounted.“Now that same lady stood up and stared me down, and I said, ‘Is everything ok?’ and she said, ‘No, your baby has been crying.’”But that wasn’t all.The disgruntled passenger then added, “And I’m in business class.”Freeman continued, “I said to this lady, ‘Well, you obviously haven’t had kids; otherwise you would understand what it’s like to have a child, and unfortunately this comes with having a baby.’”The passenger countered that she actually had five children, insisting that because she had paid for her business class tickets, a mother and her children should never be in business class.Where should they be, then?Economy only, according to this passenger.The confrontation was made all the more jarring by how suddenly it unfolded in the quiet cabin.“No one stepped in,” Freeman revealed when asked if airline staff intervened.

“It was the middle of the night and the cabin was silent.She initially yelled ‘shut up’ from her chair before getting up and confronting me.

It happened very quickly, and the flight crew weren’t nearby at the time.”What made the reaction so unexpected was that the trip had begun without a hint of hostility.“There was no sense of tension when we boarded,” Freeman said.“The Italian man sitting in front ...