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    Mum Uses Maternity Leave To Travel The World With her baby

    12 february 2016
    After the birth of a baby, the last thing new mums will think about is hopping on a plane to travel the world.
    But that's exactly what Karen Edwards, 31, did 10 weeks after giving birth to her first child Esmé with her partner Shaun Bayes.
    "I guess you could say I have not had your typical maternity leave," she wrote on her blog which documents her travels.
    "As relatively new parents, we have already been on many travel expeditions with our baby: several road trips, long ferry journeys, long and short haul flights, stopovers, camping trips and much more planned for the coming months."
    Describing herself as "travel mad", Edwards finished university with the intention to see as many countries as possible.
    When she found out she was pregnant, she was determined not to let it change anything.
    The family-of-three spent 10 months travelling the world and Edwards admits her family thought she was "nuts" when she revealed her plans in November 2014.
    Edwards, who was born in Ireland but lived in London when she gave birth, said the family boxed up their belongings, sold their car and put their house up for rent when Esmé was just under three months old.
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