Can we measure how many eggs a woman has left? Unfortunately we cannot. We can, however, use certain surrogate markers to make predictions on your ovarian reserve. You are born with all the eggs you will ever have. Let’s say that your ovary is like a candy machine that’s holding all of your eggs. Each month, a group of eggs is released and one of them becomes the dominant egg (follicle) that awaits fertilization from sperm. The candy machine is not perfect. One month it might

☝🏼One of the most common nutritional deficiencies among women worldwide is iron deficiency, leading to anemia. Some research has shown that only 20% of women enter pregnancy with adequate iron stores😱, which are further depleted during pregnancy… and are even further depleted after birth from blood loss that occurred during labour. After labour, a woman continues to lose blood (thus, loses iron) through normal postpartum bleeding called lochia, which continues weeks after t