Consistent About The 'Love Bike' Facebook Status, This DPR Member 2 Times Went To The Hospital To Use A Bicycle To Give Birth

Greens MP Julie Anne Genter rides her bicycle to the hospital to give birth in Wellington, New Zealand (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Member of Parliament (DPR) New Zealand Julie Anne Genter, early this morning went to the hospital (RS) by riding a bicycle to undergo childbirth. An hour later she gave birth.

"Important news!" wrote the DPR member from the Green Party on his Facebook account. "At 3:04 this morning we welcomed a new member of our family. I wasn't really planning on cycling to go into labour, but it ended up like that."

"The contractions I felt weren't too bad when we left at 2am for the hospital - even though they were only 2-3 minutes apart and then got worse when we arrived 10 minutes later," Genter wrote. September.

"It's amazing that now we have a healthy little one, he is sleeping, his father too," he said.

Genter is a politician who has dual citizenship, namely the United States and New Zealand. She was born in Minnesota, USA, and moved to the Pacific nation in 2006. According to local media reports, Genter during the delivery of her first child in 2018 also traveled to the hospital by bicycle.

Genter is known as a persistent figure from his party in voicing transportation problems. His Facebook profile also mentions "I love my bike".

New Zealand, an island nation of five million people, is known for its down-to-earth politicians.

The prime minister herself, Jacinda Ardern, used to take maternity leave while serving as PM. While attending the United Nations assembly, Ardern brought her three-month-old baby who was still required to be breastfed.