A woman is born with all the eggs she'll ever have. Find out the magic number in this video, in which obstetrician and gynecologist Evelyn Minaya, M.D., explains the impact of aging on all those eggs.
You are born with five million eggs in each ovary. By the time you get your first menstruation, you have about 250,000 eggs in each, and that's a lot of eggs by the way. Unfortunately because you are born with them, they also age accordingly, and that's why it is important to realize that age does matter what the time, in terms of fertility.
Evelyn Minaya, MD is a board certified obstetrician and gynecologist. She is a medical contributor for FoxNews, CNN and HeadLineNews, and has written articles for Redbook and Meridian Heath. She has also app read on The Dr. Oz Show.
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