Mum shamed for leaving baby on airport floor - but all is NOT what it seems
A MOTHER has been shamed after an image of her baby lying on an airport floor went viral, but she has shared on her own side of the story to silence the critics.
A mum and her baby have been snapped at the airport in a photo which has gone viral
The viral photo was taken by a man who saw the mother and her baby in Colorado Airport
The photo was taken by a man who saw the mother and her baby in Colorado Airport, US.
Molly Lensing was captured sitting in an airport seat on her phone.
Her daughter, then two month old Anastasia, was lying on a blanket on the floor in front of her mum.
The man who took the photo shared it online, where it quickly went viral.
Molly was shamed for her parenting skills, with one post reading: "Albert Einstein said, 'I fear the day that technology will take on our humanity ... the world will be populated by a generation of idiots.’”
But Molly has hit back at the criticism, instead sharing her very different side of the story.
The Illinois mum-of-three said she felt her privacy was violated when the image was shared.
Molly told TODAY: "We had the unfortunate luck of being stuck in the middle of the Delta computer shut-down.
"Anastasia had been held or in her carrier for many hours.”
Mum Bianca sat in front of her baby daughter in the airport in the viral photo
Mum Bianca said she felt her family's privacy was violated when the image went viral
The pair’s flights were delayed and re-booked so many times that they ended up spending 20 hours in the airport.
Molly said: “My arms were tired. She needed to stretch. And I had to communicate with all the family members wondering where the heck we were."
The part-time paediatric nurse said she was horrified when the image - taken in 2016 - began to surface months later.
She explained: "I had recently started working on a labor floor, and I was terrified of my co-workers or boss seeing the photo and comments and believing that I should no longer work with infants. Thankfully, this never happened.
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"I am powerless compared to the internet, and I know that I am the best momma to my girls and I know that I cherish them and am raising them the best I can."
Another photo involving a mother and her young daughter went viral for an entirely different reason.
Bianca Dickinson was taking a snap of her two-year-old Molly, who was standing by a fence in front of a field in Australia.