Aspiring Northland MP Willow-Jean Prime is continuing her tradition of having babies at the most politically demanding times.
Mrs Prime - a Far North District councillor who is again standing for Labour in the Northland electorate - and husband Dion had their first child, Hihana, six days before the 2015 Northland by-election was called.
Their second, Heeni Hirere-June Te Kare o Nga Wai Prime, arrived on Saturday, seven weeks from the general election.
Mrs Prime said she had followed the controversy about whether new Labour Leader Jacinda Ardern should have been asked about her baby plans on her first day in the job.
She had found some of the ensuing debate frustratingly shallow. Instead of asking Ms Ardern whether she was going to pursue politics or a family, the question that should have been asked was how families could be supported so women didn't have to choose between children and a career.