Silvester Joe Frias Macasieb, BSIT 1-4 11/24/21

Human Reproduction

1. What age is the reproductive age?

Technically, women can get pregnant and bear children from puberty when they
start getting their menstrual period to menopause when they stop getting it. The
average woman's reproductive years are between ages 12 and 51. Your fertility
naturally declines as you get older, which could make it harder for you to conceive.

2. What does reproductive age means?

In women, those years of life between menarche and menopause, roughly from
ages 12 to 49. The term is imprecise, since some women can become pregnant and
bear children at younger or older ages. In men, those years between the onset of
puberty and loss of fertility.

3. How is the reproductive system affected by aging?

As hormone levels fall, other changes occur in the reproductive system,
including: Vaginal walls become thinner, dryer, less elastic, and possibly irritated.
Sometimes sex becomes painful due to these vaginal changes. Your risk for vaginal
yeast infections increases.