Dancer’s joyful baby steps
Little Noah is already proving a hit with students at family studio
AS A full-time dance teacher, the spring in Kimberley Vale’s step was a professional necessity, but becoming a mum has left her jeté-ing for joy.
The 32-year-old, who teaches alongside her own mum at Dancescapes The June Vale Dancers Cairns, gave birth to son Noah Millard in November last year and said the now five-month-old had become her greatest production.
“I absolutely love (being a mum),” the Smithfield resident said.
“I feel like it has completed me. “I’m so content, I’ve never felt this happy before. I look at him and think: ‘How did I even make you?’”
The Vales will enjoy a quadruple celebration on Sunday, which will be Kimberley’s birthday, her mother’s birthday and Mother’s Day for both of them.
She, Noah and partner Ky Millard will mark the day with a lunch, birthday dinner, watching Mr Millard play football and a long overdue trip to the nail salon.
Much to the envy of many, Ms Vale said her first few months of motherhood had been a breeze and she was incredibly back at work teaching a week after Noah was born via caesarean section as he was breech.
“I’m basically doing everything I was before I had a baby,” she said.
“But I do forget about myself, it’s all about him.”
It is taking a village though and she said the waiting room of their Earlville dance studio had “turned into a daycare”.
“All the senior girls are his babysitters,” she said. “He loves it. He has 200 people in his face constantly.
“It feels like the studio has become more family-oriented and even closer too. He falls asleep with the crazy loud music.”
Ms Vale said while dance may be in Noah’s blood, she also wanted him to “be a boy” and enjoy football and fishing alongside his father.
She said she had originally wanted four children. She might halve that plan now, but definitely hopes to give Noah a sibling at some point in the future.
She revealed the couple conceived just before last year’s COVID lockdown began, making it easier to keep the first few months of her pregnancy under wraps.