New Zealand\u2019s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says that six months after giving birth, she\u2019s looking forward to spending more time with her daughter Neve over the Christmas break and thanking everybody who\u2019s helped her juggle responsibilities.<\/p>\n
Ardern spoke to The Associated Press on Monday as she carried around a box to hand-deliver holiday treats of coffee and peanut brittle to reporters at Parliament. She was keeping alive a tradition in New Zealand that would be hard to imagine in some countries due to the sometimes acrimonious relationships between journalists and politicians.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut my focus needs to be on furthering the agenda, and the work program, and all of the big challenges we were elected to address,\u201d she said. \u201cFor me, the added bonus is that I get to be a mom as well.\u201d Ardern\u2019s partner Clarke Gayford is the primary caregiver for Neve. He has recently returned to work as a presenter on a television show about fishing.<\/p>\n
\u201cFilming for him is a sporadic thing,\u201d Ardern said. \u201cSo when he\u2019s away, we work around that. But primarily his number one job, still, is dad.\u201d Several lawmakers in New Zealand have also recently given birth, and Ardern said she gave plenty of credit to Parliament Speaker Trevor Mallard for making the Parliament a more baby-friendly place.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s really tried to set the tone,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s tried to create a flexible environment.\u201d She said she has little planned for the holiday period other than spending time with her family, and so will be letting Neve set the routine. She said Neve is growing fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Zealand\u2019s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says that six months after giving birth, she\u2019s looking forward to spending more time with her daughter Neve over the Christmas break and thanking everybody who\u2019s helped her juggle responsibilities. Ardern spoke to The Associated Press on Monday as she carried around a box to hand-deliver holiday treats of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50289,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50287\/revisions\/50289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}