New Zealand parliament speaker feeds baby during debate, wins heart

| Published: Thursday, August 22, 2019, 12:16 [IST]

Wellington, Aug 22: The speaker of New Zealand's parliament, Trevor Mallard, cradling and bottle-feeding a lawmakers baby during a debate has gone viral.

Mallard tweeted pictures of himself nursing the infant as he presided over the debate.

"Normally the Speaker's chair is only used by Presiding Officers but today a VIP took the chair with me," he wrote.

In 2017, an Australian Senator has set the bar for multi-tasking women by moving a motion in Parliament while breastfeeding her baby.