A New Zealand MP went to the maternity hospital by bicycle today when she was in pain and gave birth an hour later, according to the BBC website.
“I really did not intend to go by bike having given birth, but it finally happened,” Julie Ann Gender wrote on her Facebook page after giving birth.
The Green Party spokeswoman for Transport did not do so for the first time since she did so three years ago when she was Minister of Transport and Women’s Affairs and cycled to the maternity ward to give birth to her first child, a baby boy.
The 41-year-old politician, who was born in the USA, is a well-known proponent of cycling.
According to her, her contractions “were not so frequent” when she and her husband decided to go to the maternity hospital by bicycle.
The first active MP to become a mother in New Zealand was in 1970, while in 1983 another MP became the first to breastfeed in the House.
In June 2018, Jacinda Ardern became the second incumbent Prime Minister of a country to have a child.
