Can there be anything more disturbing than many babies in your crib, alone, awake and silent? Undoubtedly a strange image, which struck this city and decided, after seeing it, not to let her baby cry again and appreciate the exhausting but beautiful task of fatherhood. A photo that has gone viral and shows that when you know what happens to unattended babies you don't let them cry again.
This is Dayna Mager, from Michigan (United States), and the picture was taken by her husband when she arrived home one day and found her lying next to her five-month-old daughter Luella, in her crib. She reminds her of the promise she made to her baby when, at a conference after a musical concert, a missionary unveiled a heartbreaking story.
The mother explains how motherhood has made her more fragile, more sensitive and that explains the impact she suffered, but in my opinion anyone would feel affected by that. The story is that of a missionary who, when visiting an orphanage in Uganda, entered a room with more than 100 cribs full of babies.
He listened in amazement, not understanding that silence, improper, strange in a place with children. Your hostess explained why: "After a week of your being here, crying for countless hours, time stops when they realize that nobody is coming for them… "In the end, they stop crying.
Neglected, abandoned and with real sequels although difficult to determine, it seems that they "stop being babies", cease to be little people and somehow dehumanize themselves by abandoning crying.
Therefore, the mother, beaten by that reality, with a broken heart, replaced herself and made a promise to herself and her baby: she promised that she would always come when she needed her, that she would always be for her. Always.
I cried at two in the morning, at five or every hour per night, no matter how exhausted you are, isn't it worth making them see that we are there, with our children? Trying to calm the baby is essential so that he does not feel the fear of loneliness and abandonment, that terror that children in the orphanage must have felt for so many hours ...
The image of the mother with the baby in her crib has more than 65,000 "likes" and has been shared more than 23,000 times, not because of the image itself, which after all is quite common, but for everything entails, because of the history behind it. That of abandoned babies and that of a mother who, when she knows what happens to the neglected children, makes the promise of never letting her daughter cry anymore, not leaving her alone, always be there for her.
