I once read about a story in which, by a series of unlikely manoeuvres of time travel and a sex change operation, one person (originally a girl) managed to be her own mother and father. IIRC, she was brought up in an orphanage, travelled back in time to father a child (herself) with a near-stranger in a bar, then later became a man and travelled back in time to impregnate a near-stranger (him/herself) in a bar.
Unfortunately, because I only heard about the story and never actually read it, I have no idea whether it's a novel or short story, when and in what language it was written, what it looked like, etc. Hopefully the plotline will be distinctive enough to enable someone to find it!
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It sounds like the movie Predestination, which is also based on a novel (see other answers).
The main character, a time traveler, is revealed to be a hermaphrodite. A Barkeep meets a man, John, that reveals that he was raised in an orphanage and as a girl. She had a child with a man she knew, but disappeared from her life.
The child, the Barkeep, John and Jane are all the same person, at different points in their own timeline.
So, the woman didn't meet a man she barely knew in a bar and have a child with them, but there is a main plot point about the character meeting a man in a bar.
This timeline image shows the loop of their life, plus their other identity:
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