MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Julie Anne Genter, a New Zealand Member of Parliament got on her bike early Sunday morning and rode to the hospital. The woman was in labor and gave birth about an hour later.

“Big news!” the Greens politician posted on her Facebook (NASDAQ:) https://www.facebook.com/JulieAnneGenter page a few hours later. “We welcomed the new member to our family this morning at 3.04 AM. I genuinely wasn’t planning to cycle in labour, but it did end up happening.”

This 5 million strong island nation already enjoys a good reputation for being down to earth. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern famously took maternity https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-politics-ardern-idUSKBN1KN0A8 leave while in office and brought her three-month old to a United Nations https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-assembly-leaders-idUSKCN1M30XW meeting as she was still breastfeeding.

“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,” Genter wrote.

Genter is a New Zealand-American citizen, who was born and raised in Minnesota. She moved to the Pacific nation in 2006 with her father.

Genter, who is the spokesperson of her party for transport issues and has a profile on Facebook that says “I love mine bicycle”, was reported by local media. She also cycled to the hospital to give birth in 2018, according to local media.