{"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":"

\u201cFunnily enough, it feels like nothing has changed at all. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels very normal to be back and incredibly cool to see all my colleagues.<\/p>\n

\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

\u201cSo, there is awesome support around me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dame Jacinda Ardern famously had 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

Lochie was born on Budget Day<\/a> (in May) and will return home to Napier with his mum on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\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

Nimon, who is being supported by her mum in Wellington, said this week also marked her first time flying with Lochie.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first time he has been on a plane and he slept the whole way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nimon said she was open to bringing Lochie into the House of Representatives during a sitting, if Speaker Gerry Brownlee invited him.<\/p>\n

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 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6794,15117,2511,1888,1360,22504,6368,3607,111,43,139,112774,69,24637,12971,6443,7811,2044,61,102],"class_list":["post-175740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-baby","tag-boy","tag-child","tag-first","tag-having","tag-katie","tag-mp","tag-napier","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nimon","tag-nz","tag-parliament","tag-returned","tag-returns","tag-since","tag-time","tag-to","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}