A midwife who has delivered 5,500 babies during 42 years working at the same hospital where she has also become a TV star has revealed on the eve of her retirement how her job saved her life.
While Naghmeh Teymourian-Yates, 62, has no regrets that her aspirations to become a barrister were dashed and replaced by a distinguished career at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex, her reasons for the drastic change were far from mundane.
For Naghmeh, who lives with her husband, Geoff, 65, and their children, Victoria, 30, a solicitor, and Andrew, 29, a Masters degree student and trainee quantity surveyor, in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, going into the medical profession was a matter of life or death.
