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How many eggs are women born with?
How many eggs are there in a girls ovaries when she's born?
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"Women are born with a finite number of eggs. At birth, a woman has around 1 to 2 million eggs. However, throughout her life, a woman loses eggs through a destructive process called atresia. At puberty, only around 400,000 eggs remain. Throughout the reproductive life span, from puberty until menopause, women lose about 1,000 eggs each month. Of these thousand eggs, only one is released. Once released, it is picked up by the fallopian tube. If a couple has sexual intercourse around this time, fertilization (the joining of the egg and sperm) may take place."
So, actually, we're born with one or two million eggs in our ovaries. When we go through menopause that simple means we have used those eggs up and there is nothing left to be fertilized. Some women begin menstruation earlier than others just like some women go through menopause earlier than others.
It is pretty neat to find out that we lose a whole bunch of eggs between birth and our first menstruation though."
& You might want to read the question there too, as it has a few little details about average menstrual cycle age and whatnot.
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At birth there's 1 million but only about 400 will mature enough to even go through the menstruation stage.
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