2007-01-05 15:37:07 · 11 answers · asked by alicia 2 in Health ➔ Women's Health
A woman has the maximum number of potential eggs (primary oocytes) while still a fetus, more than 7 million. By birth the number has fallen to 1 or 2 million, and by puberty to about 300,000. Only 300 to 400 reach maturity.
and that is it, no more, naturally.
2007-01-05 15:39:42 · answer #1 · answered by tattie_herbert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Women are born with a certain amount of eggs. If they use them up, there's not any way for them to produce anymore.
2007-01-06 14:05:52 · answer #2 · answered by Terry Z 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The ovaries are a woman's storehouse of egg cells. They are among the first organs to be formed as a female baby develops in the uterus. At the 20-week mark, the structures that will become the ovaries house roughly 6 to 7 million potential egg cells. From that point on, the number begins to decrease rapidly. A newborn infant has between 1 million to 2 million egg cells. By puberty the number has plummeted to 300,000. For every egg that matures and undergoes ovulation, roughly a thousand will fail, so that by menopause, only a few thousand remain. During the course of an average reproductive lifespan, roughly 300 mature eggs are produced for potential conception."
From:
http://www.healthsquare.com/fgwh/wh1ch17.htm
Take care of those eggs, ladies...
2007-01-05 15:45:12 · answer #3 · answered by _LEV_ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Women are born with all their eggs for life. They will not produce anymore that what they were born with.
2007-01-05 16:19:52 · answer #4 · answered by Ellen R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Women are born with all the eggs that they will ever need. Men don't produce sperm until they go thru puberty.
2007-01-05 15:38:55 · answer #5 · answered by IMHO 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of all, your body would not form eggs. you're born with a series quantity. Your body really releases eggs- frequently one about each month. on the pills, it relies upon on what variety you get. some end ovulation, some basically decreases the liner of the uterus- which makes it troublesome for a fertilized egg to connect and some do both. in case you're taking the kind that keeps your body from ovulating, you wont launch an egg. So, i'm guessing, in case you do not ovulate, you keep extra eggs? IDK for particular inspite of the indisputable fact that considering i'm not an expert and do not bear in mind examining literature over this. merely call and ask your gyno about this considering he/she might want to likely understand the answer.
2016-12-01 21:44:41 · answer #6 · answered by lemmer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
woman are born with all the eggs they will ever need there whole life, men on the other hand don't produce sperm till go through puberty
2007-01-05 16:07:07 · answer #7 · answered by Tinkerbell S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Women are born with a set number of eggs (hundreds of thousands) and they never make any more.
2007-01-05 15:39:15 · answer #8 · answered by Erika S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A woman is born with all the eggs they will have.
2007-01-05 15:39:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, from birth, they are born with all of the eggs they will have for life.
2007-01-05 15:41:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋