“No doors are closed to women”- Pregnant New Zealand Minister Cycles To The Hospital To Give Birth
“No doors are closed to women”- Pregnant New Zealand Minister Cycles To The Hospital To Give Birth
Women all around the globe are proving the world that even giving birth to a child doesn’t stop them from doing their work.
New Zealand’s Prime Minster has broken the stereotypes by becoming the second sitting world leader to give birth. She just took 6 weeks maternity leave after which she returned to her role with a baby in a tow.
Following her steps, the New Zealand minister for women and associate minister for health and transport, Julie Anne Genter, cycled to a hospital on Sunday to give birth.
She posted photographs on social media of her captioned “mostly downhill” trip to the hospital while at full term.
He labor was due induced at Auckland City Hospital and became the 2nd New Zealand minister to deliver a baby this year after NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Ms. Genter, 38 said that she was “40 weeks + 4 days” pregnant, and “still waiting” to give birth. Ms. Genter said on social media that it was a “beautiful Sunday morning for a bike ride,” and that she and her partner, Peter Nunns, had cycled to the hospital because there was not “enough room in the car for the support crew.”
She also added, “It also put me in the best possible mood!”
Auckland City Hospital, where Ms. Genter was to give birth, was also the place where NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivered her first child in June and returned to work this month.
Benazir Bhutto, then Pakistan’s prime minister, became the first world leader to give birth in office when she had her second child, a daughter, in 1990.
Ms. Ardern announced her pregnancy earlier in January. She said that she would be playing both roles i.e., “prime minister and a mum.”
The NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern returned to her work and said that she was “very, very lucky.” He dual her dual role has inspired many in the South Pacific country.
Ms. Genter’s bicycle ride on Sunday to the delivery ward was not the first trip to make headlines. Before that NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was driven to the hospital by her partner in her car. They didn’t use the government vehicle and rather went by their own. Be it a cycle or a relative’s car.
On its Twitter account, the Green Party declared Ms. Genter’s bicycle journey to the hospital “the most #onbrand thing ever.”
-PTC NEWS