A politician cycled to hospital and gave birth an hour later – for a second time.
Despite being in labour New Zealand Green party transport spokesman Julie Anne Genter climbed on her beloved bicycle early on Sunday in Wellington.
She headed to hospital and took to her Facebook profile – the bio of which includes "I love my bicycle" – a few hours later to declare "big news! At 3.04am this morning we welcomed the newest member of our family. I genuinely wasn’t planning to cycle in labour, but it did end up happening."
She added: "My contractions weren’t that bad when we left at 2am to go to the hospital - though they were two to three minutes apart and picking up in intensity by the time we arrived 10 minutes later.
"Amazingly now we have a healthy, happy little one sleeping, as is her dad."
Genter also cycled to the maternity ward in 2018 for the birth of her first-born.
At the time she posted on Instagram : “Beautiful Sunday morning for a bike ride, to the hospital, for an induction to finally have this baby #bicyclesarethebest."
Dual national Genter was born in Minnesota, USA, and moved to the Pacific island in 2006.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has inspired mothers with her approach to pregnancy, taking maternity while in office and bringing her three-month-old to a UN meeting as she was breastfeeding.
She was hilariously interrupted by her toddler while hosting a Facebook Live to update residents on the country's response to the coronavirus pandemic earlier this month.
Her three-year-old daughter Neve entered the room, saying: "Mummy?"
The PM replied: "You're meant to be in bed, darling. It's bedtime, darling. Pop back to bed, I'll come and see you in a second."
Smiling after the interruption, Mrs Ardern apologised to viewers and then told her daughter to go to her grandmother who would take her to bed.
She then laughed at the camera and joked: "That was a bedtime fail wasn’t it?"
