The hospital where I once worked didn't have an OB service for the first 10 years I worked there (there was a huge OB hospital a few doors down) and,as a result,it was very rare for us to get an OB case in my ER.But one day a woman came in who was crowning so,obviously,we had to take care of her (rather than transfer her).Her child,sadly,was a stillborn child.One of my many *very* vivid memories of my time in the ER was watching one of the nurses take the child,wrapped in a sterile cloth,into the utility room and baptizing the child.(The nurse was Catholic...can't recall what religion the patient was).I still remember watching the tenderness of the nurse (she was one of my favorites) as she performed the baptism.Sorry...my eyes are filling up as I type.
Lesson? Not *all* medical personnel see stillborn/deceased babies as toxic waste.
Good to know. I did ‘end of life’ care (Alzheimer’s mostly) for many many years and I too often saw other nurses who just didn’t care.