Katrina Gorry navigated an international football career, IVF in Denmark and hotel quarantine in Australia to get pregnant, before returning to the A-League and national selection.
She's won countless accolades, tasted premiership success, travelled the world, been an Olympian and represented her country 78 times.Gorry's journey to motherhood was a little more complicated than the path taken by many other women.
"I wasn't due for my period and I actually got it half an hour before I walked into the clinic," Gorry said.Gorry celebrates with Harper after a match.Then, half an hour before her flight back to Australia, returning after her Danish season ended, they transferred the embryo. "I didn't get to go to the Olympics but I got Harper instead and it's been the best decision that I've made," she said.Gorry is under no illusion just how lucky she was to get baby Harper from her first try at IVF with a sperm donor.
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