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On 19 January 2018, Ardern announced that she was expecting her first child in June, making her New Zealand's first prime minister to be pregnant in office.[{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11978029 |title=Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces pregnancy |date=19 January 2018 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] | access-date= 19 January 2018 | archive-url= https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20180124184728/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11978029 | archive-date= 24 January 2018 | url-status= live}}] Ardern was admitted to [[Auckland City Hospital]] on 21 June 2018,[{{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12066441 |title=Here comes the baby: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in labour, at Auckland Hospital with partner Clarke Gayford |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |date=21 June 2018 |access-date=21 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621015939/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12066441 |archive-date=21 June 2018 |url-status=live}}] and gave birth to a girl the same day,[{{cite news |title=Live: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's baby is on the way |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/104464515/live-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-goes-into-hospital |access-date=21 June 2018 |work=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |date=21 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621093421/https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/104464515/live-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-goes-into-hospital |archive-date=21 June 2018 |url-status=live}}][{{cite news |title=It's a girl! Jacinda Ardern gives birth to her first child |url=https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/06/it-s-a-girl-jacinda-ardern-gives-birth-to-her-first-child.html |access-date=21 June 2018 |work=[[Newshub]] |date=21 June 2018 |quote=She is only the second world leader in history to give birth while in office. Former [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] Benazir Bhutto gave birth to a baby girl in 1990. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621093641/https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/06/it-s-a-girl-jacinda-ardern-gives-birth-to-her-first-child.html |archive-date=21 June 2018 |url-status=dead}}] becoming only the second elected head of a nation's government to give birth while in office (after [[Benazir Bhutto]] in 1990).[{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44568537 |title=Ardern and Bhutto: Two different pregnancies in power |last=Khan |first=M Ilyas |date=21 June 2018 |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=22 June 2018 |quote=Now that New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has hit world headlines by becoming only the second elected head of government to give birth in office, attention has naturally been drawn to the first such leader – Pakistan's late two-time Prime Minister [[Benazir Bhutto]]. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622012924/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44568537 |archive-date=22 June 2018 |url-status=live}}][{{cite news |title=Watch: PM Jacinda Ardern leaves hospital with 'Neve Te Aroha' |date=24 June 2018 |work=[[Radio New Zealand]] |url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/360285/watch-pm-jacinda-ardern-leaves-hospital-with-neve-te-aroha |access-date=23 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213024544/https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/360285/watch-pm-jacinda-ardern-leaves-hospital-with-neve-te-aroha |archive-date=13 February 2019 |url-status=live}}] Neve is an anglicised form of the Irish name [[Niamh]], meaning 'bright'; {{lang|mi|Aroha}} is [[te reo Māori|Māori]] for 'love', and [[Te Aroha]] is a rural town west of the [[Kaimai Range]], near Ardern's former home town of [[Morrinsville]].[{{cite news |url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/360288/pm-s-baby-named-neve-te-aroha-ardern-gayford |work=[[Radio New Zealand]] |title=PM's baby named: Neve Te Aroha Ardern Gayford |date=24 June 2018 |access-date=24 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624013004/https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/360288/pm-s-baby-named-neve-te-aroha-ardern-gayford |archive-date=24 June 2018 |url-status=live}}] |
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On 19 January 2018, Ardern announced that she was expecting her first child in June, making her New Zealand's first prime minister to be pregnant in office.[{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11978029 |title=Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces pregnancy |date=19 January 2018 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] | access-date= 19 January 2018 | archive-url= https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20180124184728/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11978029 | archive-date= 24 January 2018 | url-status= live}}] Ardern was admitted to [[Auckland City Hospital]] on 21 June 2018,[{{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12066441 |title=Here comes the baby: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in labour, at Auckland Hospital with partner Clarke Gayford |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |date=21 June 2018 |access-date=21 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621015939/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12066441 |archive-date=21 June 2018 |url-status=live}}] and gave birth to a girl the same day,[{{cite news |title=Live: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's baby is on the way |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/104464515/live-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-goes-into-hospital |access-date=21 June 2018 |work=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |date=21 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621093421/https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/104464515/live-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-goes-into-hospital |archive-date=21 June 2018 |url-status=live}}][{{cite news |title=It's a girl! Jacinda Ardern gives birth to her first child |url=https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/06/it-s-a-girl-jacinda-ardern-gives-birth-to-her-first-child.html |access-date=21 June 2018 |work=[[Newshub]] |date=21 June 2018 |quote=She is only the second world leader in history to give birth while in office. Former [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] Benazir Bhutto gave birth to a baby girl in 1990. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621093641/https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/06/it-s-a-girl-jacinda-ardern-gives-birth-to-her-first-child.html |archive-date=21 June 2018 |url-status=dead}}] becoming only the second elected head of a nation's government to give birth while in office (after [[Benazir Bhutto]] in 1990).[{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44568537 |title=Ardern and Bhutto: Two different pregnancies in power |last=Khan |first=M Ilyas |date=21 June 2018 |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=22 June 2018 |quote=Now that New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has hit world headlines by becoming only the second elected head of government to give birth in office, attention has naturally been drawn to the first such leader – Pakistan's late two-time Prime Minister [[Benazir Bhutto]]. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622012924/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44568537 |archive-date=22 June 2018 |url-status=live}}][{{cite news |title=Watch: PM Jacinda Ardern leaves hospital with 'Neve Te Aroha' |date=24 June 2018 |work=[[Radio New Zealand]] |url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/360285/watch-pm-jacinda-ardern-leaves-hospital-with-neve-te-aroha |access-date=23 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213024544/https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/360285/watch-pm-jacinda-ardern-leaves-hospital-with-neve-te-aroha |archive-date=13 February 2019 |url-status=live}}] Neve is an anglicised form of the Irish name [[Niamh]], meaning 'bright'; {{lang|mi|Aroha}} is [[te reo Māori|Māori]] for 'love', and [[Te Aroha]] is a rural town west of the [[Kaimai Range]], near Ardern's former home town of [[Morrinsville]].[{{cite news |url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/360288/pm-s-baby-named-neve-te-aroha-ardern-gayford |work=[[Radio New Zealand]] |title=PM's baby named: Neve Te Aroha Ardern Gayford |date=24 June 2018 |access-date=24 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624013004/https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/360288/pm-s-baby-named-neve-te-aroha-ardern-gayford |archive-date=24 June 2018 |url-status=live}}] |
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After growing rumours that Gayford was under police investigation for criminal offences, in 2018 both Ardern and the Police Commissioner Mike Bush took the unusual step of confirming that Gayford was not, and had not been, under any such investigations.[{{cite news |first=David |last=Fisher |title='Dirty politics': PM, police respond to fake Gayford rumours |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |date=2018-05-01 |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/false-clarke-gayford-rumours-police-and-pm-jacinda-ardern-respond-to-widely-circulated-fake-slurs/YTI2ZJ7PNPDAGAIG3EB7LKINME/ |access-date=2025-11-18 |url-access=subscription}}][{{cite web | url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/apology-and-payment-clarke-gayford-after-baseless-lies | title=Apology and payment for Clarke Gayford after 'baseless lies' | date=29 July 2022 }}] |
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