新西兰国会议员Julie
Anne Genter周日早些时候骑上自行车前往医院。她已经在分娩中，一个小时后她分娩了。
“重大新闻！”几小时后，这位绿党政客在她的 Facebook 页面上发布了帖子。 “今天早上 3 点 04 分，我们迎来了我们家的最新成员。我真的不打算骑自行车分娩，但它确实发生了。”
这个拥有 500 万人口的岛国已经以脚踏实地的政治家而闻名。著名的总理杰辛达·阿登 (Jacinda Ardern) 在任期间请了产假，并在她三个月大的婴儿仍在母乳喂养时带她参加联合国会议。
“当我们凌晨 2 点离开去医院时，我的宫缩并没有那么严重——尽管它们相隔 2 到 3 分钟，并且在我们 10 分钟后到达时变得更加强烈，”根特写道。
出生于明尼苏达州并于 2006 年搬到太平洋国家的双重新西兰和美国公民说：“令人惊讶的是，现在我们有一个健康、快乐的小宝宝，她的父亲也睡着了。”
当地媒体称，根特——她所在政党的交通问题发言人，其 Facebook 个人资料包括“我爱我的自行车”——也在 2018 年骑自行车去医院生下了她的第一个孩子。
New Zealand politician cycles to hospital in labor, gives birth
New Zealand Member of Parliament Julie Anne Genter got on her bicycle early on Sunday and headed to the hospital. She was already in labor, and she gave birth an hour later.
"Big news!" the Greens politician posted on her Facebook page a few 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 reputation for down-to-earth politicians. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern famously took maternity leave while in office and brought her three-month-old to a United Nations meeting as she was still 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," said Genter, a dual New Zealand-US citizen who was born in Minnesota and moved to the Pacific country in 2006.
Genter -- her party's spokesperson for transport issues and whose Facebook profile includes "I love my bicycle" -- also biked to the hospital in 2018 to give birth to her first-born, local media said.
