Not built to be a stay-at-home mum


New phase: Two months after former Star journalist Andrea Filmer came back from Australia with her post-graduate degree, she gave birth to her daughter Hailey.

Opting to care for her daughter is the right choice but this writer hopes to return to work eventually.

It's been a full ten months and I still find it difficult to say that I’m a stay-at-home-mum. Less than two years ago, I was a full-fledged news reporter with five plus years under my belt, working in the beautiful and dynamic state of Penang.

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