There are tons of rumors regarding menopause and pregnancy.
While it is mostly known that women can not get pregnant during menopause, most do not know that menopause itself is defined as one year without a period.
Spotting does count when you are going through menopause, you have to be twelve months without spotting or a period.
The time frame before actual menopause is called premenopause, this is also known as perimenopause.
It is a known fact that women have a hard time getting pregnant when they are older, everyone has heard such thing.
You probably also notice that more complications arise when women who are in their forties and fifties get pregnant, however with the technologies now-a-days, these complications can be avoided or corrected most of the time.
The point is, these are all related to menopause - or more specifically, premenopause.
To be even more specific, premenopause all has to do with hormones and how they change your body in the years leading up to menopause.
In this stage of your life, your body begins producing less and less estrogen.
The hormone estrogen itself is the one hormone that is responsible for letting your brain release a number of other hormones.
A lot of those hormones are critical to your menstruation and ovulation cycles.
Your period will become more erratic due to the hormonal upheavals occurring in your body.
This happens due to your estrogen levels fluctuating, as your estrogen levels fluctuate, so do your signals for your other hormones to be released and your ovulation cycle will become irregular as well.
The entire point is, you are not necessarily fertile once each month anymore.
Some months, you could be more fertile and some more you could be less fertile.
A missed period also does not always mean you are pregnant, but do not assume that you are not longer able to conceive, for you may do so 'accidentally'.
It is quite clear that as you become older and the closer you get to actual menopause, it is more difficult to conceive a child.
It might even me accurate to say that you are less likely to get pregnant.
Although, the problem with that is it is very difficult to pinpoint exactly when you are fertile and when you are not.
When you become infertile and your body stops producing eggs totally depends on when you started going through the menopause process.
The menopause process starts with premenopause and most women start in their mid forties.
It is not uncommon for women to start seeing menopause symptoms in their late thirties either though, on the flip side though, there are some women who are in their late fifties before they start going through menopause.
Those women can still get pregnant, even through they are in their late fifties or in their sixties.
However, if you begin menopause early, there is a good chance that you will not be able to conceive a baby by the time you reach your forties.
While it is mostly known that women can not get pregnant during menopause, most do not know that menopause itself is defined as one year without a period.
Spotting does count when you are going through menopause, you have to be twelve months without spotting or a period.
The time frame before actual menopause is called premenopause, this is also known as perimenopause.
It is a known fact that women have a hard time getting pregnant when they are older, everyone has heard such thing.
You probably also notice that more complications arise when women who are in their forties and fifties get pregnant, however with the technologies now-a-days, these complications can be avoided or corrected most of the time.
The point is, these are all related to menopause - or more specifically, premenopause.
To be even more specific, premenopause all has to do with hormones and how they change your body in the years leading up to menopause.
In this stage of your life, your body begins producing less and less estrogen.
The hormone estrogen itself is the one hormone that is responsible for letting your brain release a number of other hormones.
A lot of those hormones are critical to your menstruation and ovulation cycles.
Your period will become more erratic due to the hormonal upheavals occurring in your body.
This happens due to your estrogen levels fluctuating, as your estrogen levels fluctuate, so do your signals for your other hormones to be released and your ovulation cycle will become irregular as well.
The entire point is, you are not necessarily fertile once each month anymore.
Some months, you could be more fertile and some more you could be less fertile.
A missed period also does not always mean you are pregnant, but do not assume that you are not longer able to conceive, for you may do so 'accidentally'.
It is quite clear that as you become older and the closer you get to actual menopause, it is more difficult to conceive a child.
It might even me accurate to say that you are less likely to get pregnant.
Although, the problem with that is it is very difficult to pinpoint exactly when you are fertile and when you are not.
When you become infertile and your body stops producing eggs totally depends on when you started going through the menopause process.
The menopause process starts with premenopause and most women start in their mid forties.
It is not uncommon for women to start seeing menopause symptoms in their late thirties either though, on the flip side though, there are some women who are in their late fifties before they start going through menopause.
Those women can still get pregnant, even through they are in their late fifties or in their sixties.
However, if you begin menopause early, there is a good chance that you will not be able to conceive a baby by the time you reach your forties.