“Being a mum gets better with every baby,” says political journalist and māmā-of-six Maiki Sherman, sitting down to chat during a rare moment of peace at her Wellington home.
It’s 9am on a Tuesday and Maiki and her partner Anaru MacDougall’s newest love, six-month-old Onoaio Eve, is asleep in her cot, with big siblings Hemaima-te-wai, 13, Kahikatea, 10, Mihipaea Te Tonga, six, Rangitukehu, five, and Turei Heke, three, all safely dropped at their kura and kōhanga reo.
“It’s not often this quiet in our house,” laughs Maiki, who is deputy political editor for . “But I love our big whānau. Our house is busy, but it’s full of love and happiness. And the beautiful thing about each baby is it gets easier. There is no anxiety… You become
