{"id":175740,"date":"2025-12-09T17:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/175740\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:14:10","slug":"napier-mp-katie-nimon-returns-to-parliament-with-baby-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/175740\/","title":{"rendered":"Napier MP Katie Nimon returns to Parliament with baby boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFunnily enough, it feels like nothing has changed at all. <\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt feels very normal to be back and incredibly cool to see all my colleagues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI am certainly not the first mum to have gone back to work after having a baby, and I\u2019m not even the first MP to have gone back to work after having a baby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSo, there is awesome support around me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Dame Jacinda Ardern famously had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-gives-birth-to-baby-girl-with-clarke-gayford-alongside-at-auckland-hospital\/HZF2W4TH6RZ3IXKDTJJYNSXIQM\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-gives-birth-to-baby-girl-with-clarke-gayford-alongside-at-auckland-hospital\/HZF2W4TH6RZ3IXKDTJJYNSXIQM\/\">her first child while serving as Prime Minister<\/a>, and Nimon said while Parliament had come a long way over the years, she wanted to help make it a more supportive place for mums serving as MPs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Lochie was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/hawkes-bay-today\/news\/napier-mp-katie-nimon-has-a-baby-on-budget-day-welcome-to-the-world-lochie-lawson\/ZQTSHCJGYBGJXFDFS5STTZOZJY\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/hawkes-bay-today\/news\/napier-mp-katie-nimon-has-a-baby-on-budget-day-welcome-to-the-world-lochie-lawson\/ZQTSHCJGYBGJXFDFS5STTZOZJY\/\">born on Budget Day<\/a> (in May) and will return home to Napier with his mum on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019m very grateful to be able to come back before Christmas and dip my toe in, so that when I come back fully in January, I will feel like I am capable of doing both,\u201d she said, of juggling motherhood and travelling for work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Nimon, who is being supported by her mum in Wellington, said this week also marked her first time flying with Lochie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is the first time he has been on a plane and he slept the whole way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Nimon said she was open to bringing Lochie into the House of Representatives during a sitting, if Speaker Gerry Brownlee invited him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"WEeFTHfsBFTkKSx\" style=\"display:none\">Nimon has planned  feeding and Lochie\u2019s sleeps around Parliament sittings on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFunnily enough, it feels like nothing has changed at all. \u201cIt feels very normal to be back 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