"As I was laying there, I was just thinking to myself, 'I can do it.'"
Tamiah Brevard-Rodriguez had a plan leading up to her April 24 due date. Coined "Operation Dissertation Before Baby," the plan included completing her dissertation for her doctorate at Rutgers Graduate School of Education, then having her baby in time to celebrate graduation and the summer with her family. In that order. But it didn't happen that way.
On March 25, the morning of her dissertation, she went into labor. She wound up giving birth to Enzo in the car on the way to the hospital.
After doctors checked them out, she took a nap, ate a meal and was ready to rock her defense presentation. Brevard-Rodriguez logged onto her laptop from her hospital bed and gave her presentation. And then when it was over, she took down her Rutgers background on Zoom, revealing the hospital.
"Everyone was in complete shock," she says.
Brevard-Rodriguez's graduation ceremony is this Sunday – Mother's Day.
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