Is Pregnancy During Menopause Possible?
By Rebecca Prescott In order to be classed as menopausal your periods need to have stopped for at least twelve months consecutively, which means that you are then infertile. However, the perimenopause, which is the period leading up to the menopause, is a time when many women continue to have a period regularly, and this means that they are at risk of becoming pregnant. Although the chances of becoming pregnant naturally are reduced by fifty percent at the age of forty, and continue to decline with age, pregnancy during these menopausal years is still possible. Pregnancy during the perimenopausal years Many women aged between forty five and fifty assume that they are not going to get pregnant, and some believe that the irregular periods that they experience are a sign that they can no longer have a child. However, the very fact that periods are occurring during the run up to the menopause means that eggs are being produced and can be fertilized, and although the chances of getting preg
