Medicine and health

A woman in its life has about 490 monthly cycles. That begins with the Menarche, the first monthly bleeding, which begins on the average in the industrialized part of the world with twelve years, and ends with the Menopause, the last Menstruation, which marks the entrance into the change years.

Still before 100 years was this clearly different. A woman in 19. Century experienced on the average only approximately 160 cycles in their reproduktiven phase, thus the time, in which it could get children. The reason: On the average 15 pregnancies, six to seven births and a quiet time of about in each case two years led to the fact that women had a “normal” rule bleeding projected evenly only about four times in the year.

The exact knowledge of the own monthly cycle and of the different phases in the life of a woman are important conditions, in order to lead a Sexualleben even determined. However Sexualität seems to be the knowledge over the female cycle with girls rather small also in times of intensive reporting approximately around the topic.