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“My hope is that fertility
treatment is based on
holistic care to achieve
the best outcome for
parents and the best
outcome for children.”
“When I went for my interview in
my third year of physiotherapy, with
the same interview panel, this guy
said to me, ‘I don’t really understand
why you want to do this. You can buy
a car, you can travel overseas, you
could even marry a doctor if you
wanted to’.”
In 1973, Christine had
interviewed for an Air Force
cadetship in medicine.
“The interviewer said to me, ‘look,
we don’t actually have any facility to
have a female medical cadetship in
the Air Force’, so I said to him, ‘but
more than half of the trainees are
now female so if you don’t sort this
out, you’re going to be missing out
on all sorts of things’.”
“Around 12 months later, I received
a phone call saying, ‘look, it’s all
changed, you can apply now’, but
the moment had passed.”
These days, Christine works as a
Senior Fertility Specialist at
Repromed, spends precious
time with Aria and Katie, and
enjoys tarmac car rallies with
husband Chris.
“Chris and I first met at Goolwa
speedboat racing. He was driving
his boat and I was racing my
dad’s boat.
“Motorsport is our relaxation
passion so we do a lot of tarmac
rallies,” Christine said.
As she proudly flicks through the
many photos of Aria, it’s clear how
besotted Christine is with the ‘bubbly
girl’ she helped create.
“It’s amazing – the magic of being
able to look at an embryo and then
look at their little person. You look
down a microscope and say to
yourself ‘how? How does
that happen?’”
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Christine Kirby and
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Photo credit:
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