UK teacher back in school hours after childbirth

London: She is determined that the girls at her exclusive school will not be afraid to "have it all" when they get older.

So when headmistress Dr Helen Wright had her third child she decided to personally show that you can combine a top career and children by being back at her desk just seven hours after giving birth.

Dr Wright, 39, went into labour early in the morning and was back at £9,300 (Dh53,466)-a-term St Mary's Calne school in Calne, Wiltshire, by lunchtime with newborn Jessica in tow.

Every school day since, she has brought her baby in, breast-feeding her between meetings and letting her doze during the more arduous parts of her schedule. She said: "The day I had Jessica I went to hospital in Bath at 5.45am. I had her less than an hour later and I was discharged three hours later. I felt absolutely brilliant so I thought: why not share that?

"I was back in my study just after lunch introducing her to everyone! I look after people's daughters for them so they expect me to be pretty special and an excellent role model...."

Dr Wright was once the country's youngest public-school headteacher — at just 30.

Is this the right message to send out? Do you think it is possible for people to juggle between work and taking care of children?