I wish a woman traveling with a toddler HAD asked me to change seats so that she could sit next to her child on an 11-hour flight. Mom was on the aisle, the child was by the window, and I was stuck in the middle between them. Guess who had to wait constantly on the child and help her with her meals, drinks, snacks, movies, toys, etc. and listen to her babbling when she wasn’t watching a movie? She did not take a nap during the entire flight. At least she never cried.
Whew. I am with you. I was on a six hour flight with someone who had a very young child that squalled for the entire time, probably was having ear problems, and I took that for what it was, but...on that cattle car-like Iberian Airlines flight on an old DC-10, it was an uncomfortable flight.
It was good that the kid was several rows in front of me, but...that screaming was quite penetrating. I didn’t have noise canceling headphones in those days.
I did feel sympathy for the mother, too. That had to be hell.