Expecting mother delivers baby in car just hours before earning her Ph.D. [Video]

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (WABC) – This Mother’s Day is going to be a special one for a New Jersey woman.

It will be Tamiah Brevard-Rodriguez’s first Mother’s Day as a mother herself and also the same day as her graduation ceremony.

Six weeks ago, she became a mother and earned her Ph.D.

Baby Enzo was born a month before his due date on the same day Brevard-Rodriguez was scheduled to deliver her dissertation defense.

“I was physically prepared for a pregnancy. Mentally, my brain was not on a baby,” she said. “So I was having a very emotional response to knowing that I was in labor, knowing that I had this defense, like I was literally shaking.”

Brevard-Rodriguez had everything planned out with staff and faculty at Rutgers University to examine standards Black college women face on historically white campuses.

Her plan even had a name: Operation Dissertation Before Baby.

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