article_snippet: Super midwife Kathleen McSherry has retired after delivering a record 7,000 babies.
article_snippet: Colleagues believe Kathleen, 66, from Faifley, West Dunbartonshire, has notched up more births than any other British midwife in a career spanning six decades.
article_snippet: Kathleen McSherry from Faifley, West Dunbartonshire, has delivered more than 7,000 babies since 1966 .
article_snippet: Kathleen with one of Kathleen many deliveries, left, and hard at work for Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS .
article_snippet: Kathleen, who is a fan of the hit TV show Call the Midwife, has spent Kathleen career in the bustling maternity wards of three busy Glasgow hospitals - Stobhill, The Queen Mother's and the Southern General.
article_snippet: Kathleen's daughter Ashley, who set up a Facebook page in Kathleen honour, said: 'Kathleen has enjoyed every one of Kathleen days working to deliver babies and we are all very proud of Kathleen service to the NHS.
article_snippet: The mother-of-four and grandmother-of-five has enjoyed a career which mirrors Kathleen favourite TV programme, Call the Midwife.
article_snippet: Kathleen, second from right, has been delivering babies at three Glasgow hospitals for six decades .
article_snippet: Kathleen started training in the 60s and Kathleen career mirrors that of Kathleen favourite TV programme Call the Midwife .
article_snippet: Kathleen began Kathleen training in 1966 aged just 17, after working as a sales assistant in the former Glen's department store in Glasgow.
article_snippet: Kathleen's bosses, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde are sad to see a nurse leave.
article_snippet: Evelyn Frame, Head of Midwifery at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said: 'Kathleen has dedicated Kathleen life to delivering babies and supporting new mums and we wish Kathleen all the very best on Kathleen retirement.'
highlights_snippet: Kathleen McSherry, 66, started training as a midwife in 1966, aged just 17 .
  