In simple words, it means a womans OVARIES have aged, or grown old. Ageing is not always bad, is it?? .....we all know, its a must for wines, aged or older human beings are ( usually) wiser!! But the same does not apply to a womans capacity to have babies. You all know that its much easier to start a family in your 20s as compared to a later age. Until a decade or so ago...the mantra for girls
in India was....get married early and have your babies also early! One rarely
saw women giving birth into their mid and late 30s then.
However things have changed now. Its common to
see girls getting married around 30 and think of becoming moms by the time they
hit their mid 30s. This is a good trend if you look at the bright side of the
issue. More financial stability as well as maturity means a more nurturing
environment for the growing child. There is better scope for the mother to
pursue a career and make inroads into any field, which she can pursue to the
full extent after her maternity break or at least part time.
This should not be a problem if the woman has
good overall health AND also has healthy ovaries. The ovaries ( egg sacks of
the woman)normally start ageing ( slowing down) after 40 years of age. But....,
sometimes the same process can start earlìer. Once the ovaries of the woman
age, they quite rapidly lose their function, produce fewer and fewer eggs and
finally shrink completely to result in the menopause.
The cause for premature ovarian failure (
P.O.F.)maybe due to a problem with the immune system (
auto-immune, overactive immune system) or diabetes or due to multiple other
factors not yet known to science. It may also occur due to reasons like
treatment for cancer, radiation treatment etc. If a girl or woman has had
cancer and received treatment for it, fertility issues may occur later on.How does a woman know if her ovaries are doing
well? A visit to a fertility centre would be required for this. There are tests
like sonography, combined with hormonal tests like FSH, LH, AMH which can help
in making a diagnosis.If the ovarian reserve( stock of healthy eggs in
the ovaries) is poor or below average, options like egg freezing maybe
required, especially for a woman who is still unmarried. However, treatment is
very expensive and 2 or 3 treatment months or cycles maybe required to have a
decent number of eggs frozen.
For married women, the option would be to try
and have a baby as soon as possible. If the growth of eggs can be achieved
easily, with tablets and a few hormonal injections, then the treatment is not
very expensive. But if higher doses of injections are needed, and only a few
eggs grow, usually IVF ( test tube baby) is required to give her the best
chance of pregnancy.
Recently, new treatments like injecting certain
growth factors (platelet rich plasma ) or stem cells into ageing ovaries has
been tried and it has shown some promise, however, the benefit of these
treatments is yet to be confirmed.
So, to summarise, every woman has a
chronological age ( your age in calender years since birth) and a biological
age ( the age of your internal organs, like the ovaries).
Usually, both of them are the same but sometimes
the internal organs may age faster.
Hence all women in their late 20s and 30s need
to find out about their reproductive potential ( health of internal organs) if
they are planning to postpone child bearing.
It should not happen that your biological clock
ran out before you woke up to the idea of becoming a parent.
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