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I’m using my maternity leave to go backpacking around the world — people say I’m crazy but I don’t care
It’s called maternity leave — not maternity sit around at home. After giving birth, a restless Esther Draycott, 31, wasn’t about to waste perfectly good paid time off nesting with her newborn — instead, the professional midwife from the UK grabbed her …