WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The prime minister made headlines by being only the second sitting world leader to give birth, taking six weeks of leave, and returning to her post with a baby in tow. Now comes the New Zealand government official who cycled to a hospital Sunday to give birth.

Julie Anne Genter, minister for women, posted photos on social media of her “mostly downhill’’ trip to the hospital, at full term. She is expected to be the second New Zealand minister to deliver a baby this year, after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Genter, 38, plans three months of leave.

Genter said it was a “beautiful Sunday morning for a bike ride’’ and she and her partner, Peter Nunns, cycled to the hospital because there was not “enough room in the car for the support crew.’’

Benazir Bhutto, then Pakistan’s prime minister, was the first world leader to give birth while in office, in 1990.

New York Times