‘Motherhood is my new Olympics’: Jana Pittman reveals she is pregnant with her third child from the same IVF donor as her daughter Emily
She withdrew her hopes for gold at the Rio Olympic Games in April.
But the elite athlete is gearing up for a different type of race as she reveals she is pregnant with baby number three.
Speaking to Woman’s Day magazine, the 33-year-old says ‘motherhood is my new Olympics’ as she confirms she’s 13 weeks pregnant – from the same sperm donor with whom she had 15-month-old daughter Emily.
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Bump alert! Jana Pittman has confirmed she’s 13 weeks pregnant with her third child, who was conceived using an IVF sperm donor
‘It was amazing – I cried tears of joy,’ said Jana, who has already picked out the name Matilda for her baby girl.
Having previously struggled with fertility issues, the Sydney-born star had 14 eggs harvested during the IVF treatment, with only one deemed viable with a 30 per cent chance of ‘taking’.
The former world champion 400m hurdler says she doesn’t know who the sperm donor is, but her daughters will be able to meet their father one day if they so choose.
Maternal: The 33-year-old elite athlete already has a son Cornelis, nine, and daughter Emily, 15-months
Jana also has a son, Cornelis, nine, from her previous marriage to English athlete Chris Rawlinson.
Without revealing his identity, the sportswoman also admits she’s rekindled a romance with a former love.
‘I might even have another [baby] with my man, who knows!’ she revealed.
Jana is currently half way through a medical degree at Western Sydney University and plans to specialise in gynecology so she can help other women like herself who struggled with fertility issues.
New dream: Jana won the 400m hurdles in the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, but reveals ‘motherhood is my new Olympics’
Last year, the mother-of-two welcomed her daughter Emily by delivering the baby herself.
The elite athlete and medical student told Woman’s Day in an interview that her daughter was ‘far more slippery than I thought’ when she reached down and put her hands on her baby’s head as she was crowning.
‘I’d always wanted to deliver my own baby,’ Jana explained to the magazine.
‘It’s definitely one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever done.’
Fertility issues: The Sydney-born sports star used the same sperm donor with whom she conceived daughter Emily in her current pregnancy
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