Do Women Get Pregnant More Often than They Used To?

Do Women Get Pregnant More Often than They Used To? (0:26)

Pregnancy is certainly very common, but does it happen as often as it did a hundred or so years ago? In this video, find out the answer with HealthMaker Louann Brizendine, MD, a neuropsychiatrist at UCSF Medical Center.

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Pregnancies in this day and age are fewer than they were say a hundred years ago when women in 1900 had an average of 15 to 18 pregnancies and 10 to 11 live births. So they had many miscarriages, but women didn't have a menstrual cycle every period. She was pregnant most of her fertile years.

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About Louann Brizendine, MD

Louann Brizendine, MD, founded and directs the UCSF Women's Mood and Hormone Clinic, which is designed to treat women experiencing disruption of mood, energy, anxiety, sexual function and well-being due to hormonal influences on the brain.

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