{"id":10930,"date":"2019-08-22T13:54:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=10930"},"modified":"2019-08-22T13:54:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:54:50","slug":"picture-speaker-feeds-mps-baby-during-plenary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/22\/picture-speaker-feeds-mps-baby-during-plenary\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture! Speaker Feeds MP&#8217;s Baby During Plenary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The speaker of New Zealand&#8217;s parliament Wednesday held a lawmaker&#8217;s baby while he presided over a debate in the House of Representatives, BBC reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/world3pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/world3pic.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/world3pic-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption> The speaker of New Zealand&#8217;s parliament <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trevor Mallard tweeted a photo of himself feeding MP T\u0101mati Coffey&#8217;s baby boy in the speaker&#8217;s seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Coffey, Labour MP for Waiariki, announced the birth of his son, T\u016bt\u0101nekai Smith-Coffey, in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The baby was born via a surrogate mother and is the biological son of Mr Coffey&#8217;s partner, Tim Smith. In a tweet about the baby&#8217;s birth, Mr Coffey said he and his partner were &#8220;overwhelmed at the miracle of life&#8221; and the surrogate mother &#8211; a friend of Mr Smith &#8211; was &#8220;doing awesome&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, Mr Coffey attended a parliamentary debate with his baby for the first time after returning from paternity leave. During the session, father-of-three Mr Mallard took on the role of babysitter as well as speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A picture of Mr Coffey holding up the baby in parliament was shared by Green Party MP Gareth Hughes on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Lovely to have a baby in the House, and what a beautiful one @tamaticoffey,&#8221; Mr Hughes wrote in the tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to Newshub, Mr Coffey said he felt &#8220;really supported by my colleagues from across the House&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Coffey is the latest MP to bring his baby to parliament, following the example of politicians across the world. Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson, who attended a debate with her baby in 2018, and Australian Senator Larissa Waters, who breastfed in parliament in 2017, are among the legislators to make headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And in September last year, New Zealand&#8217;s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made history by bringing her baby along to her debut speech at the UN in New York. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The speaker of New Zealand&#8217;s parliament Wednesday held a lawmaker&#8217;s baby while he presided over a debate in the House of Representatives, BBC reports.\u00a0 Trevor Mallard tweeted a photo of himself feeding MP T\u0101mati Coffey&#8217;s baby boy in the speaker&#8217;s seat. Mr Coffey, Labour MP for Waiariki, announced the birth of his son, T\u016bt\u0101nekai Smith-Coffey, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":10932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10933,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions\/10933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}