Woman's Day Magazine NZ

Silver Ferns great Katrina ‘I BATTLED TO BECOME A MUM’

‘Trying to get pregnant isn’t as much fun as you think it will be!’

It’s a thought shared by almost every first-time mum-to-be: “Jeez, there’s an awful lot they don’t tell you before you get pregnant!”

Katrina Rore is no different. The incredulous Silver Ferns star adds, “There’s something new every day – and why do they need so much stuff? Pregnancy, eh? It’s definitely a journey!”

Thirty-seven weeks along, the netball great and her builder husband Joel, 29, are now very much counting down the days until they can meet their baby girl, and Katrina says she couldn’t be more excited at becoming a mum.

However, the road to motherhood was, for her, a little tougher. Though she’d

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