AHC: POTUS gives birth

Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, has recently become the first head of government to give birth while in office since Benazir Bhutto in 1990. Challenge: A POTUS gives birth. A couple of months ago, Tammy Duckworth became the first US Senator to give birth in office--but she was only elected to the Senate in 2016, and it is a little hard to see her on a national ticket before her election as Senator. Anyway, that would be current politics, so let's think of some possibilities from the past.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_McMorris_Rodgers on the GOP's national ticket in a TL where Kerry wins (or Gore is re-elected) in 2004?

Yvonne Brathwaite Burke was the first member of Congress to give birth while in office (at the age of 41 in 1973). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Brathwaite_Burke (Her daughter Autumn Burke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn_Burke is now in the California State Assembly.) But I doubt that the Democrats were yet ready to have an African American woman on their national ticket in the 1970s--especially if she was "only" a member of the House of Representatives. Though Yvonne and Autumn might appeal to a lot of voters with photos like this:

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McCain wins 2008, and dies soon after taking office. Sarah Palin (whose last OTL child was 2008) has a child in 2010, while President.
 
McCain wins 2008, and dies soon after taking office. Sarah Palin (whose last OTL child was 2008) has a child in 2010, while President.

The thing is, if 2008 looked like a good year for the Republicans, McCain would probably never have chosen Palin as his running mate, but would have gone with a more conventional choice.
 
The thing is, if 2008 looked like a good year for the Republicans, McCain would probably never have chosen Palin as his running mate, but would have gone with a more conventional choice.

McCain picked Palin a couple of weeks before Lehman Brothers went under. If you can somehow delay LB until after the election, McCain had a shot (he was still a serious underdog, but after Lehman Brothers and "the fundamentals of our economy are sound", he was finished).
 
Support of Republicans was too low that McCain would has almost impossible win even without fall of LB.
 
Not too likely but:

Wanting to appeal to women voters without choosing HRC, Obama picks Representative Kirsten Gillibrand as his running mate in 2008?
 
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