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Missed conceptions: the need for education
Author(s) -
Chapman Michael G,
Driscoll Geoffrey L,
Jones Bryony
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00274.x
Subject(s) - sociology , management , library science , economics , computer science
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 3 April 2006 184 7 361-362©The Medical Journal of Australia 2006www.mja.com.auCommentaryor fertility specialists, there is no more difficult and depress-ing news to break to a woman seeking a baby than “Sadly, it’stoo late. You’re menopausal.” In our experience, this situationis encountered with ever-increasing frequency as the age of firstattempting to conceive increases. With 1% of the female populationmenopausal by 40 years and 5% by 43 years,