A New Zealand MP – and outspoken cycling advocate – rode to hospital while in labour in the early hours yesterday, and gave birth an hour later.
Forty-one-year-old US-born Julie Anne Genter said on Facebook afterwards: ‘I genuinely wasn’t planning to cycle in labour, but it did end up happening.’
The BBC reports that the Green party’s spokesperson for transport was not doing this for the first time – she was a minister three years ago when she took a similar trip.
She said her contractions ‘weren’t that bad’ when she and her husband decided to cycle to hospital yesterday.
She wrote: ‘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.’
[Image: https://www.facebook.com/JulieAnneGenter/posts/4916210785057860]