Menopause Is A Time Of Freedom

You feel a wave of heat creep up your whole body. Suddenly you're really hot and want to take all your clothes off. Then you realize, it's a hot flash and you're about to enter the menopause.

Menopause brings a whole different set of challenges to deal with, but the key is, not to get despondent or disheartened, but to to relax and open yourself up to the possibility that it is just one other transformation in life that will bring its own benefits and self growth, remote as that may seem right now!

Try and see the menopause as a time of freedom!!
Freedom from the pain of periods, the risk of getting pregnant and freedom from being a mum to small children.

You CAN get pregnant during menopause

You can get pregnant during the menopause, reports the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), a non-profit organization that focuses on reproductive health research.

Women nearing or just beginning the menopause mistakenly think they are no longer fertile because their menstrual cycles are no longer regular or have just stopped, and stop using any contraceptives.

The Alan Guttmacher Institute notes that as many as half of all pregnancies that occur in women over the age of 40 are unintended and unintentional.

Even though the menopause does mark the end of a woman's childbearing years, you can get pregnant even if your periods are irregular and you have not gone through "menopause" until you have experienced 12 consecutive months without a period.

So be warned and take those precautions!