I'm just musing really, and thinking back over something that happened a few years ago. This was less than a decade so not back when babies were left outside in prams etc.
When a friend and I were (a very immature) 16, we were sat in our city library doing some work for college, when a lady with a baby came and sat at our table. If memory serves me correct, the baby was around 7/8 weeks. We cooed over it and made small chitchat with her, then she said we could hold it (sorry, can't remember if baby was a he/she). So we both held the baby until it started to fuss and I tried to hand the baby back, she said "Oh no, baby just wants a bottle." Then she made up a feed and left us to give it to the baby, while she wandered into the attached cafè, mostly still insight, and got herself a drink and disappeared for a couple of minutes, toilet maybe?
At the time we didn't think anything other than "A nice lady let us hold her baby." But now sat here with my one year old, it's something I'd have never done! To be honest I was also no where near together enough to got for a casual stroll to the library either.
I'm just curious if you would do this? Or was this poor lady just desperate for 5 minutes to herself? I struggled with pna amongst other things so it's unimaginable to me, but do parents this relaxed exist?