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Petite podium prop. Did you see where the Icelandic Member of Parliament Unnur Bra Konradsdottir gave a speech while breast-feeding her baby? Asked by The Washington Post about the video that showed her coolly delivering the speech to seemingly unfazed colleagues, the lawmaker explained that she hadn’t expected to go to the pulpit, but when another MP gave statements on her own bill, she had to respond. “So I either had to tear the baby girl off me and leave her crying with the MP sitting next to me, or just take her with me, and I thought it would cause less disturbance to take her with me.” And so it did.

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