Woman spends maternity leave backpacking in nine countries including Malaysia with baby

Karen Edwards with her baby daughter Esme, seen here holding her passport, at the airport. PHOTO: @TRAVELMADMUM/INSTAGRAM.

SINGAPORE: Most new mothers spend their maternity leave recuperating, but Karen Edwards is not your ordinary stay-at-home-mum.

After their baby daughter Esme was born in late 2014, Edwards and her partner Shaun Bayes - both avid backpackers - sold their car, put up their house in London for rent and stored their belongings.