Mom's Reason For Climbing Into The Crib With Her Baby Wrecked Me

Why This Mom Climbed Into Her Baby's Crib

Teething had turned Dayna Mager's darling baby girl, Luella, into a mess of tears and screams. So, this Michigan mom climbed into the crib, snuggled up to her daughter and soon both were snoozing. When dad got home, he couldn't resist snapping a picture of the sweet moment. And while the photo is precious, there's so much more to why Dayna's Facebook post is going viral. Credit: Facebook / Dayna Mager There are times when a speaker's message will rock you to the core. That's exactly what happened to Dayna as she listened to a missionary speak about a trip to an orphanage in Uganda. Something the speaker said was so staggeringly powerful, it stayed with Dayna forever. [rsnippet id="3" name="Article-Ad"] It's the reason she made a sincere promise to her daughter. It's the reason this mom climbed into the crib as her baby girl wailed miserably. And it's the reason her incredibly touching post has been shared over 20,000 times.

Here's what Dayna says on her Facebook page about the photo:

"This was from several weeks back, yes, I climbed in the crib in hopes to soothe my screaming, teething, blushed faced, and tear soaked little girl. My husband came home to this, and I am re-posting because this captures the essence of my heart, and my 'why...' There I was in the heat of this exhausting, beautiful thing we call parenthood, and I remembered a promise I made to her.

Credit: Facebook / Dayna Mager

One of the first times Matt and I left Luella, was to a worship concert. At that conference, a missionary shared his story, and it shook me to the core. A moment that would forever be burned in my fragile, hormone raging, new mommy heart that had already become 100xs more fragile after meeting her.

Credit: Facebook / Dayna Mager

That missionary was in an orphanage in Uganda, and he has been in many before, but this one was different. He walked into a nursery with over 100 filled cribs with babes. He listened in amazement and wonder as the only sound he could hear was silence. A sound that is beyond rare in ANY nursery, let alone a nursery where over 100 new babes laid. He turned to his host and asked her why the nursery was silent. Then , her response to him is something I will never, ever forget. EVER.

This was my 'why' moment.

She looked at him and said, 'After about a week of them being here, and crying out for countless hours, they eventually stop when they realize no one is coming for them...'

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...They stop crying when they realize no one is coming for them. Not in 10 minutes, not in 4 hours, and maybe, perhaps, not ever...

Broke.

I broke. I literally could have picked up pieces of my heart scattered about the auditorium floor. But instead, it stirred in me a longing, a hunger.. A promise in my spirit.

We came home, and that night as Luella rested her tiny little 10lb body against mine and we rocked, I made a promise to her. A promise that I would always come to her.

Credit: Facebook / Dayna Mager

Always.

At 2:00am when pitiful desperate squeals come through a baby monitor, I will come to her.

Her first hurt, her first heartbreak, we will come to her. We will be there to hold her, to let her feel, to make decisions on her own, and we will be there. We will show her through our tears and frustrations at times, that it is okay to cry, and it's ok to feel. That we will always be a safe place, and we will always come to her."

Credit: Facebook / Dayna Mager The truth behind the silence that filled the nursery in that orphanage absolutely hits like a sledgehammer. It's our prayer that Dayna's powerful message will reach all of the lost and hurting souls out there. That they will come to realize the same beautiful promise awaits them through the Heavenly Father. For He is near to the brokenhearted, He comforts those who mourn, and He gives rest to the weary. AMEN!

"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lordyour God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9

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