A mother has been awarded her master’s degree less than eight hours after giving birth to her baby daughter in hospital.

Architect Antonella Capizzi, 33, from Turin, Italy, had been rushed into a hospital emergency room after complications were picked up on 21st March during routine checks.

And medics induced her baby’s birth five days later (26th March) after her condition worsened.

Antonella, reports local media, had been due to defend her master’s thesis on the same day, where students are quizzed over their research and findings.

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So after giving birth to baby Gaia at 3.21am Antonella decided to go ahead with the session online.

And even while she was in labour, she was talking with her senior tutor and adapting her thesis for a video presentation.

So by 11am she was being questioned by lecturers over her paper on architecture in green spaces while little Gaia gurgled happily in a cot beside her at Sant’Anna hsopital.

Amazingly after her all-night birth drama, Antonella sailed through the master’s degree cum laude, or with honour.

She told local media: “Everything has been incredible since I was admitted to the emergency room.

“I came here for some simple checks and in the end they kept me, every day news came out about my clinical picture that was worsening.

“Today I was supposed to defend my degree thesis in Genoa, my course is an inter-university degree course, Polytechnic of Turin, University of Turin, University of Milan and University of Genoa and I was supposed to discuss it in Genoa.

“I came for a simple check-up before proceeding with this trip, albeit short, towards Genoa and in the end, they detained me because I was having contractions, the cervix was shortened, and while I was hospitalised, they discovered that I had ruptured membranes.

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“In the meantime, they saw that I also had the complication of a bacterium until they were forced to induce emergency childbirth.

“Until the end, I didn’t know if I could participate in the thesis discussion because, obviously, when you induce childbirth, you don’t know the timing. “

Antonella added: “The birth was induced yesterday afternoon. This night at 3 I gave birth to my daughter and this morning at 11 I defended my thesis with excellent results, with 110 cum laude.

“Until yesterday afternoon I was reviewing and preparing for this discussion that I had already organised via the web, but yesterday for a moment I feared having to postpone the discussion to the next session, obviously for a much more beautiful event, however, there were a lot of worries.

“I had the utmost availability both from the Sant’Anna department and from my university professors who gave me the opportunity to discuss via the web.

“My supervisor, who followed me in the best possible way throughout the entire thesis process. Proved to be so until the end, giving me the opportunity to update us even during labour, a decidedly paradoxical situation.

“When she was born, I kept the baby with me, she wanted so much to be present with me and she worked so hard to be born and was with me while I was discussing and when they proclaimed me.”