The news that New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is expecting her first baby in June has sparked a knitting movement for those in need.
American-based New Zealander Heather McCracken started the #KnitforJacinda trend when she tweeted on Monday: "I woke up this morning feeling like 'I want to knit for Jacinda's pepi (baby in Maori) WHO'S WITH ME.'"
McCracken quickly realised the project could be best realised by providing for those babies in need of "warm clothes and hats and booties to go home from hospital in honour of Jacinda's wee one."
Others soon joined the conversation and suggested donating the knitted baby clothes to the wool programme of one of the country's hospitals.
Diane McEntee who runs the Middlemore Foundation's wool programme told Radio New Zealand "we love to get every little bit of knitting to do with a baby."
"A baby's a blessing after all, isn't it? Anything anybody can do for our programme in the name of Jacinda's baby is marvellous."
Ardern's fellow Labour politician Deborah Russell was one of the first to get her knitting needles clicking and shared a photo of a baby hat that will be donated in honour of New Zealand's First Baby.
Last Friday, 37-year-old Ardern announced her pregnancy. She will take six weeks maternity leave after the birth before resuming office. She is only the second world leader to be pregnant while in office, following Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto who gave birth in
1990.