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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.

Louann Brizendine, MD

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