Mother-of-eight describes constant heartbreak of adopting and fostering dying ‘hospice babies’ to love and care for them until their death

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A mother-of-eight has fostered and adopted seven terminally-ill children in the last four years to care for them as they prepare to die.

Cori Salchert, 51, and her husband Mark have taken in what she calls ‘hospice babies’ to provide them with love and medical support as a way of coping with the tragic loss of Cori’s special needs sister at a young age.

The former bereavement nurse is now caring for a three-year-old boy Charlie who suffers from irreversible brain damage and has outlived his prognosis by a year.

Though they know the heartbreak from Charlie’s passing is inevitable, Cori said that the family will be more glad that he came into their lives than sad when he is gone.

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