Mother hands out 200 sets of earplugs on flight with newborn baby

She handed out bags of treats to appease fellow passengers

A mother preempted her baby crying by giving out earplugs on a flight (Rex Features)

A mother who was concerned her four-month-old baby might irritate other passengers on a long-haul flight handed out 200 bags of treats – each including a set of earplugs.

The bags also included Korean sweets and a note from the unnamed mum.

“Hello, I’m Junwoo and I’m four months old,” read the note.

“Today, I am going to the US with my mom and grandmom to see my aunt.

“I’m a little bit nervous and scary [sic] because it’s the first flight in my life, which means that I may cry or make too much noise.

“I will try to go quietly, though I can’t make any promises.

“Please excuse me.”

The note went on to tell passengers to use their earplugs “when it’s too noisy because of me” and told travellers to enjoy their trip.

The good deed took place on a 10-hour flight from Seoul, South Korea, to San Francisco in California, and was shared on Facebook by fellow passenger Dave Corona.

He posted photos, along with the caption: “A very touching gesture by the mother but as you know when you have kids, expect the unexpected.

“Not a peep out of the kid.”

It follows the story of a mother who wrote an open letter to a man she accused of shaming her toddler on a flight.

Parenting blogger Stephanie Hollifield revealed how she was taking her first trip with her two-year-old and described feeling “very nervous”, particularly as her daughter was recovering from a sinus infection.

From the moment the pair sat down, Hollifield said that a male passenger in front of her made a series of “dramatic huffs and puffs”, letting her know that he was “annoyed by our very presence.”

Hollifield had some choice words for the irritable passenger: “What you need to know, is that while children can be terribly inconvenient now, they will run the world when you are old and grey,” she wrote. “This world certainly has enough negativity without us adding to it, and just maybe the kindness you give out today, will be returned to you in the future.”