Description

The book focuses on the menopause in women. Menopause is an unavoidable change that woman experience or will experience, when she reaches middle age and beyond. It is helpful if women learn what to expect and what options are available to assist the transition, if that becomes necessary.
Menopause can be officially declared (in an adult woman who is not pregnant, is not lectating, and who has an intact uterus) when there has been amenorrhea (absence of any menstruation) for one complete year.
During menopause, a women has her last menstrual period, usually around the age of 51. This marks the end of fertile phase in women?s life. The time before and after this last menstrual period, during which a woman?s body goes through several changes, is divided into four stages of menopause. There are hormonal changes and symptoms in the year leading upto and beyond the final menstrual period in woman?s life.
Menopause represents the end stage of a natural transition in a woman?s reproductive life. Menopause is the point at which estrogen and progesterone production decreases permanently to very low levels. The ovaries stop producing eggs and a women is no longer able to get pregnant naturally.