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Some women get through their monthly periods easily with few or no concerns. Their periods come like clockwork, starting and stopping at nearly the same time every month, causing little more than a minor inconvenience.
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Choosing a birth control method is one of the most personal health care decisions a woman makes. In nearly four decades of childbearing years, your need for birth control will most likely change many times. But at each life stage, you can make informed decisions by learning about all your contraceptive options and selecting one or more that best fits your reproductive health needs, and changing it if and when you find it’s necessary to use a different option.
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Congratulations! You're pregnant! Now, let's get down to business. Everything you do in the next nine months--from what you eat to what you drink to how physically active you are and what you weigh—has the potential to affect your child's current and future growth.
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The change of life. The end of fertility. The beginning of freedom. Whatever people call it, menopause is a unique and personal experience for every woman. It's a natural event that marks the end of fertility and childbearing years. Technically, menopause results when the ovaries no longer release eggs and decrease production of the sex hormones, estrogen, progesterone and, to a lesser extent, androgen. Menopause is said to have occurred when a woman has not had a period for 12 months.
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Jennifer Johnson Avril turned to her friends for advice when the migraine medication her doctor had prescribed for her severe headaches failed to end her suffering. The Brooklyn woman had only infrequent migraines when she was in her mid-20s, but they intensified over the years. By the time she reached her mid-30s, Jennifer was having migraines once a month or more often, sometimes lasting for several days.
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You probably had a long list of projects you planned to get done during your maternity leave. However, you now realize that you forgot one thing: This is not a vacation. Instead, it is a time to heal, to get to know your new baby and to learn how to be a mother. So forget everything except these three things.
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