My Unsung Hero: What I Learned from Nancy Allspach when I Worked for a Baby, a Girl Who Was Born to Die

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She said that she wanted to touch the baby and the parents as much as possible. compassion is what they need in that moment. Nancy taught me that.

“‘I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry for what you went through. It’s not only because of what you went through, but how we know about things that we didn’t know then.

Since she became a registered nurse half a century ago, Foley has cared for many babies and children who have died. And looking back, she says she always tried to treat both the children and their parents with compassion – the way she learned from Nancy Allspach.

Babies in this situation were often placed in a bassinet and received little or no attention until they died. But Foley says the night shift supervisor, a woman named Nancy Allspach, had a different approach.

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