Sunday will be a special day for Tamiah Brevard-Rodriguez as it is her first Mother's Day and her graduation.Six weeks ago she became a mom and earned her PhD on the same day.Baby Enzo was born a month before his due date and on the same day, Tamiah Brevard-Rodriguez was scheduled to deliver her dissertation. "I was physically prepared for a pregnancy. Mentally, my brain was not on a baby. 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 said.Brevard-Rodriguez had everything planned out with staff and faculty at Rutgers University to examine the standards Black college women face on historically white campuses.She had named her plan Operation Dissertation Before Baby.However, things went off schedule when Brevard-Rodriguez's water broke on the morning of March 25 and baby Enzo was working on his own timetable.Brevard-Rodriguez's wife then rushed to their car after their doula told them to get moving as contractions increased."Doula's trying to tell me like, 'Don't grunt him out like', you know, like, you know, just breathe. Let's be like... and I'm like, ha like this baby is coming," Brevard-Rodriguez said."So I had three pushes. So the first one was baby's head, he was crowning. Second push, he was out, he was in my hand. Third one, we were just, we were just there," she said. Once at the hospital, Enzo was checked out and was all good. And since Brevard-Rodriguez was well rehearsed for her dissertation, she delivered her defense about seven hours after Enzo came into the world."I was prepared for it. Like what I do is some final touches on the, on the presentation. Like I did the study, I had the support. I just needed to take a nap, take a shower and regroup," Brevard-Rodriguez said.No one knew about the delivery until after the successful defense was complete.