The plan that Tamiah Brevard-Rodriguez had was different from the plan that her son had, which is how she ended up having to defend her PhD dissertation and give birth all on the same day.”
“Despite the fact that it has been a whirlwind, baby Enzo and I are doing very well,” Brevard-Rodriguez said in a statement to PEOPLE when asked about the situation. “He is a healthy bundle of joy who has brought so much happiness into our home.”
During the evening before she was scheduled to defend her dissertation presentation, the student at the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education, who is also the head of the Aresty Research Center at the university, said that she had a “off” feeling. A few hours later, on March 25, her water broke in the wee hours of the morning.
For the moment, I am physically trembling, and my wife is attempting to keep me calm by assuring me that maybe we still have time. “I am about to give birth on the most important day of my life,” she informed the administrators at the school. I looked for a place to lie down. And at that moment, I was like, “No, I’m in the process of laboring.” It is today that this baby will be born.
By the time Brevard-Rodriguez, who is also the mother of a girl who is four years old, recognized that her son was crowning, she had the impression that she had some time before the birth.
Furthermore, it was discovered that baby Enzo truly couldn’t wait since she gave birth in the front seat of her wife’s automobile when they were on their way to the hospital. She told the authorities, “She’s going like 120 miles per hour and didn’t get a chance to pull over during the incident.” “In three pushes, he was in my arms.”
The mother also said that she felt ready to defend her dissertation from the hospital around seven hours following the birth of her baby, which occurred four weeks earlier than expected.
It was then that she remembered telling her wife, “Go get me some clothes, bring my laptop, and bring the charger.”
As for what lies ahead, Brevard-Rodriguez will be celebrating Mother’s Day and her graduation on Sunday, May 12, which will be another huge double day, but one that should hopefully be less hectic than the previous one.
“I am excited to officially graduate on Mother’s Day and even more excited to see what the future holds professionally,” according to her statement to PEOPLE. “But right now, I’m just looking forward to the remaining months of my maternity leave with my beautiful family.”