As wonderful as this birth is for Jacinda, Clarke and New Zealand's working women, I'm not looking forward to the media coverage.
The interest is understandable. This is a huge historical moment. Jacinda Ardern is only the second woman to give birth while running a country, the first New Zealand
Prime Minister to do so, and now a champion for all career women.
But, the coverage of the baby is almost certainly going to go overboard.
It starts with the royalish photograph of mum, dad and bub outside Auckland Hospital. It's mostly a pointless photo anyway. The baby's so wrapped up you can hardly see what it looks like. Which isn't a major disappointment, because newborns mostly look less like their parents and more like big uncooked yams.
Then we'll get magazine spreads, paparazzi shots of the parents trying to simultaneously manage a muffin and a crying baby at the local café, and 'exclusives' about a distant relation spotted in a store buying a clothing for the First Baby. Cue a rush on that outfit. The ensuing sales spike of that item will probably generate a news story too.
