Top Menstruation Facts Every Woman Should Know

 

1. You may smell a bit different from normal days during your period.
2. On average, a woman menstruates for about 7 years during her lifetime.
3. You can have 450 periods in your life. It depends on a woman’s average menstrual cycle.
4. The average period cycle varies from 21 to 35 days. Breastfeeding is a natural contraceptive; hence women do not get periods when they breastfeed for long and often. When breastfeeding reduces, the period returns. The average cycle of periods is reduced because of this as well.
5. The average starting age for periods was 15 or 16 years a century back. Today, girls attain puberty as early as 9 or 10 years of age. Health, diet, sleeping habits, stress, and being overweight can be the prime factors for early puberty.
6. A new-born baby with ovaries has six million eggs. The number of these eggs (oocytes) reduces to one or two million eggs when a girl reaches puberty and her menstrual cycle starts; the eggs mature each month and get released. The extra eggs die off when a woman ages and reaches the menopause stage and eventually cannot conceive babies.

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