Labour MP Tulip Siddiq shares pictures of new baby boy after delaying birth to vote on Brexit

Tulip Siddiq's son Raphael Mujib StJohn Percy who was born on Thursday.
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Bonnie Christian20 January 2019
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Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has shared photos of her baby boy days after she postponed a caesarean section to vote on Theresa May’s Brexit deal.

Ms Siddiq gave birth to Raphael Mujib StJohn Percy on Thursday.

At the time, the 36-year-old said: “If my son enters the world even one day later than the doctors advised, but it’s a world with a better chance of a strong relationship between Britain and Europe, then that’s worth fighting for.”

Tulip Siddiq was pushed into Parliament on a wheelchair two days earlier to vote on the Brexit deal after she delayed the birth of her son.
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Ms Siddiq had a difficult first pregnancy with her daughter Azalea, now two, and had originally been due to give birth by elective caesarean section on February 4.

However, after developing gestational diabetes, doctors at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead advised she deliver the baby at 37 weeks.

In a statement Ms Siddiq said she and her husband Chris Percy were proud to welcome their son to the world.

"He was born on 9.59am on 17 Jan 2019, weighing 6 pounds 6.9 ounces,” she said.

"We are extremely grateful to the doctors, nurses, midwives and staff at the Royal Free Hospital for their brilliant work and for looking after our son so well."

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