New Zealand lawmaker cycles to hospital to give birth

[jpak]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/19/asia/new-zealand-cycling-pregnant-mp/index.html

Auckland, New Zealand (CNN)A New Zealand lawmaker made her own way to a hospital to have her baby, covering the kilometers from her suburban home to a maternity ward on a bicycle.

The move neatly ties together Green Party MP Julie Anne Genter's roles as Minister for Woman and Associate Minister for Transport and for Health.

Genter, 42 weeks pregnant, posted a photo on Instagram of her ride to Auckland City Hospital Sunday morning local time.

"Beautiful Sunday morning for a bike ride, to the hospital, for an induction to finally have this baby. This is it, wish us luck! (My partner and I cycled because there wasn't enough room in the car for the support crew... but it also put me in the best possible mood!) #42weekspregnant #cycling #bicyclesarethebest," she wrote.

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[MineralMan]

1. Fun story!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Whew! When I saw the headline I thought the woman was an idiot

to be cycling while in labor. An induction, totally different thing.

[lapfog_1]

3. hitch up the horse, plow the front 40 in the morning

have the baby at lunch time... short rest

plowed the back 40 before evening.

That was the "joke" my parents would tell me about my great-great-grandmother who pioneered the plains of Kansas.

Good luck to the new mum in New Zealand.

42 weeks? Isn't that a bit long?