Ali Pugh’s baby joy! ‘OUR MAGICAL FAMILY MOMENT’
This was not the year Ali Pugh was expecting. When COVID-19 hit New Zealand, her husband’s work came to a standstill and she was needed in the newsroom fulltime to cover the unfolding global crisis. Then amid the chaos of 2020, the mum-of-two received some life-changing news.
“It was a lovely family secret that we kept to ourselves for the first few months,” says the Christchurch-based TVNZ reporter, 34. But now that secret can be shared with Woman’s Day readers – Ali and her husband Jo Barus, 45, are expecting their third child in February, a little sibling for five-year-old Theadora and two-year-old Heidi.
‘We’ve had two wonderful home births, so it would be a
