“Old people don’t sleep through the night. Since Woodward is retired, she can stay home all day with infants and get up in the middle of the night to tend to them. Woodward’s willingness to take on newborns is especially important because most day cares do not accept children under three months old. That doesn’t include her own children and grandchildren.Īs she spoke on the phone in May, she was caring for three children under three years old who could be heard burbling in the background. Since then, Woodward has cared for more than 160 kids, with a gap of 16 years when she worked as a teacher. She fostered her first child in 1979 and became licensed as a foster parent with her late husband in 1980. While most septuagenarian grandparents might breathe a sigh of relief that they no longer have to stay up all night with a newborn infant, 71-year-old Woodward has continued to open her Boscawen home to the tiniest foster children. For more than four decades, Linda Woodward has cared for New Hampshire babies who need a safe place to stay.
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