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Mother triumphs in exams - 28 hours after delivery
Monday July 02, 2012 11:35:26 PM,
IANS
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London: You might want
to say hats off to a determined British woman who wrote her final
graduation exams from a hospital bed, just 28 hours after giving
birth to her first child - and secured top marks.
Isobel Cohen, 33, graduated with a first class honours degree in
English from Cambridge University's Lucy Cavendish College -
despite sitting her final exams in a hospital bed, Daily Mail
reported.
The talented student took on both challenges within mere hours of
the other and triumphed.
Hours after giving birth May 23, Cohen left baby Beatrice in the
capable hands of neonatal nurses in the intensive care unit of a
hospital in Cambridge.
She then sat her practical criticism paper in her dressing gown
and slippers, completing her Shakespeare and Greek tragedies exam
the next day in the hospital.
Despite the exhaustion of labour and the final weeks of her
pregnancy, the woman who was determined to finish the degree even
after she learned of her unplanned pregnancy came through the
rigorous exams with top marks.
The new mother said: "I was absolutely terrified when I became
pregnant, but I was fixed on going on with my degree."
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