To ask what's the nicest thing anyone has done for you?

After having dd2 I was struggling with pnd, a newborn and a toddler. Dh had gone back to work and I was sitting on the floor crying with a crying baby who wouldn’t latch properly and a clingy toddler and a house in absolute shambles. My best friend phoned me to check in and I broke down.
She dropped everything and came straight round. She brought the casserole she had made for own families tea. Made me a cup of tea, put a dvd on for the toddler and reassured me that I was doing fine.
As I calmed down the baby managed to latch on and had a good feed. She took her changed her and put her down for a nap. Ordered me into the shower and to bed. When I woke up she had cleaned the kitchen and helped dd1 make a picture for me.
She came around every single day for a week and spent the entire time taking care of me and the kids. Doing housework when I slept. At night she made meals to bring around the next day.
She absolutely saved my sanity.

I work in a hospital and live many hours away from my own family. I always try to be kind, give my patients cuddles, tea, anything I basically think I'd like someone to do for my mum. Never thought much of it.
I was seriously ill a few years back and at the time was single and lived alone. I ended up admitted to hospital and a new member of staff I didn't really know at all brought me to my bed, then 20 mins later came back with a bag of magazines, water, sweets, all sorts.

A few hours later I woke up to a little stack of notes with phone numbers from members of hospital staff, emergency services, all offering any help, including going to collect my parents if need be, and a letter from a colleague saying they were going to take me home to their family after I was discharged. I've never forgotten how randomly kind everyone was and it has cemented my "be kind" philosophy.

Years later I was pregnant (only DH and I knew, we were about to tell family) and I
went to sit down in a cafe with a cup of tea because I felt really tired. An older lady behind the counter came over with a glass of water and a little rub to my shoulders (I must have been grey) and went back to what she was at. I remember thinking how lovely that was. Sadly I lost the baby a few weeks later but this was one of my main positive memories of my pregnancy and very important to me.

People can be so lovely.

Place marking! This is such a feel good Thread. Really needing it right now 🙂

This wonderful thread is making me cry

Were currently going through a REALLY difficult time with our new baby, who is 4 months old now. She is literally the most unsettled/colicky/hysterically crying baby you ever did see. Nothing makes her happy and she HATES sleep. Our HV said she’s probably the most ‘difficult baby’ she’s ever seen. Both me and DP are really struggling to keep it together at the moment, as we have a toddler aswell.

My family has been amazing. Taking it in turns to just take her in the car (even though she screams through a good portion of it), taking DS for days out and sleepovers every week. Bringing food. Checking in everyday. My friends have all offered to take her for walks, to take DS or to come and clean my house for me.

One day recently I text my best friend in a meltdown as I literally did not think I could deal with one more day of crying and was hitting rock bottom. She offered to take the baby overnight, saying she’d stay up all night if need be, just to give me a proper rest. This is despite never having any real hands on experience with little babies herself yet. We couldn’t do this as DD is breastfed but in that moment I couldn’t of been more grateful of what she was willing to do for me.

It’s time like this is see how truly BLESSED we are to have a fantastic support network around us and I know we’re only getting through it right now because of them. I can’t wait to pay it forward with them when all this is over.

When I was in hospital 60 miles from home having our very premature baby, and seriously ill myself, our neighbour, who had a key to the house to keep an eye on things and water the plants, took her 2 friends in (lovely elderly ladies, I knew them both quite well) and they gave our house a huge clean, washed all the covers from the couch and chairs, shampooed the carpet, did a general tidy and did all the ironing that was in the basket. We were expecting to return home to the house the way we had rushed out of it when I was taken to hospital but we returned to a beautiful clean, tidy home with everything done for us. I'll be forever grateful to them.

When i was 18/19 i was out clubbing and had lost my ticket to get my coat back. It was snowing out and feezing cold. A young man had heard me begging for my coat and i was refused it. i then went outside to call a taxi and this young man came out wrapped his very expensive designer coat around me and told me to get home safely. I was in so much shock. I thanked him very much and said i would post his coat he said it's fine

Sister in law cleaned my house, left tea in the fridge with wine and flowers, unasked one day just after my husband left and our lives fell apart. I was at work and came home to it all. Made me cry

My ex SIL takes my children shopping for me every Christmas and birthday so I will have some presents to open. Their Dad is as good as absent and pays no child support but she is always there if we need anything and always does this. Its just such a lovely thing to do and I would never expect it but she does it anyway. She's lovely.

This is such a lovely thread, thank you for starting it op

I'm suffering with a bad back at the moment. Went into town the other day and my 7 year old DS insisted on carrying the shopping bags for me even though I was fine to carry them and he was struggling but wouldn't let me take them back.

Told me I didn't have to smile and out on a brave face if I didn't feel like it. Weirdly, it had the effect of making me feel better because I was under less strain.

I reported childhood sexual abuse to the police (after keeping quiet for 40 years). A friend of mine took time off work and came to the police station whilst I did my video statement. During the investigation she was there every step of the way and was always checking in on me.

It turned out my abuser had admitted the offences to another police force 10 years previous, but they had failed to pass this information onto my local police, so I put a complaint in.

The same friend, again, gave up her own time and came with me when I had my meeting with the police regarding my complaint. She gave up her weekend and got on a plane and stayed the weekend and was with me through the meeting.

I can't ever thank her enough for her support over the last 2 years. She is incredible.

Left a volunteer position on a farm in South America to rescue some stray puppies who were in danger of being tortured to death by an evil Peace Corps worker who'd already done it to the last lot. He put them in his backpack, left the farm family some money, got on a bus to the nearest city and found a vet/shelter that had a nursing bitch who could feed them. He said he did it because he knew he'd never be able to look me in the eye again if he didn't.

I was living in a different European country, only grasping the language, my partner of 3 years had just broken up with me soon after I moved there.

I struggled with moving to my own place.
I had made only one friend, who helped me move.

In this particular country, kettles aren't a big deal. Not many people have them.
I was crying and distraught from dealing with recent events.
This friend asked me what makes make me feel better, I said a cup of tea but I have nothing to make one. No stove set up yet.
Friend went to a shop and bought a really expensive kettle and then to another 3 shops searching for English breakfast tea.

He's been my partner for 5 years now

My dear friend Covered my splitting up costs
(Legal , moving etc )

In fact many many kind acts since I split up from Many , but that took My breath away

@Pricklypear12 he did indeed, to begin with he wasn't a fan of ds, and we had a rough start to parenthood because I had PND and he really doesn't like babies. But he did everything he could to support me and look after ds, even though he admits he had moments of "what the fuck have we done, I need out" and only the fact he loves me kept him here. (it all sounds very sad reading that back, I promise you were in a good place and very happy)
DS is 7 months now and he adores him, literally dotes on him. Has said if I had earnt more we would have done split mat leave.
He also has said we'll have another in a few years if I want to

I'm loving reading these replies too.

I've got another one, when I split up with my first serious boyfriend (just before Valentine's Day) I threw his valentines day present at him (a solid chocolate car) and told him to get out of my house.
I then started crying because I wanted chocolate and there wasn't any in the house, my dad went to the shop at 10pm and bought me a giant dairy milk bar.

Super hormonal, newborn Dd and toddler Ds. Messaging my best friend saying I felt a bit down. She turned up at my door with flowers, chocolates, gave me a big hug whilst I cried and then did my washing up whilst I just cuddled my babies. I'll never forget that.

I was taken into hospital last year for bowel surgery and was a bit scared. My friend works ridiculously long hours but she drove an 80-min round trip on the evening of my surgery to bring me a present - a beautiful decorated box containing a colouring book, pencils and a jar with lots of hand-written quotes, sayings and silly jokes to cheer me up... and it did!

A twitter acquaintance sent me a cake when I was really struggling with my firstborn. I’ve paid It forward since but it was one of the kindest things ever, when I wasn’t experiencing a lot of other kindness.

A relatively new work colleague encouraged, supported and coaxed me into taking on a new role and has helped me see myself as just Slipper, and not Slipper the mum and Slipper the wife. I feel so grateful to have such a lovely person in my life. I can't see what she would have gained from being so nice, just one of those amazing people you come across if you're lucky.

I found out my ex boyfriend had cheated on me two weeks after we had just moved into our first home together so I broke up with him. I'd been trying my best to keep it together and keep myself busy and the first night that I was sleeping alone in the flat (my sister had been staying for a few days) I got home from shopping and completely broke down. Full sitting on the floor wailing type breakdown.

I texted a friend to say how awful I was feeling just to get it off my chest and she called me 25 minutes later to say she'd packed her bag and was coming to stay. It was 8 o'clock at night and she lives 2 hours away and had to get two busses to get to me. She came in with a bunch of flowers, gave me a big cuddle and went straight into the kitchen and started tidying up/ washing all the dishes I'd let pile up. Then she got into my bed with me and ordered us a takeaway.

I just felt so loved and looked after and it was the start of me feeling better.

When ds was around 2 and still in a pushchair I was leaving the drs when one of the wheels came loose and broke off.An elderly man asked where I lived and it turned out we both lived on the same street.He insisted I took the pushchair to his house and him and his two sons somehow fixed it for me,I was so grateful.