New Zealand politician cycles to hospital in labor, gives birth

"Big news!" the Greens politician posted on her Facebook web page a number of hours later. "At 3.04am this morning we welcomed the newest member of our family. I genuinely wasn't planning to cycle in labor, but it did end up happening."The island nation of 5 million already has a repute for down-to-earth politicians. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern famously took maternity depart whereas in workplace and introduced her three-month-old to a United Nations assembly as she was nonetheless breastfeeding."My contractions weren't that bad when we left at 2am to go to the hospital -- though they were 2-3 min apart and picking up in intensity by the time we arrived 10 minutes later," Genter wrote."Amazingly now we have a healthy, happy little one sleeping, as is her dad," mentioned Genter, a twin New Zealand-US citizen who was born in Minnesota and moved to the Pacific nation in 2006.