{"id":5431,"date":"2010-02-22T18:57:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T01:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=5431"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:33:36","slug":"not-that-i-need-reminding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2010\/02\/22\/not-that-i-need-reminding\/","title":{"rendered":"Not That I Need Reminding&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But I am oh so lucky, fortunate, blessed; nature gave me the biggest gift of my life when I was 44:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Women are born with an average of one to two million eggs in their ovaries, which are shed monthly until menopause, with a 20-year old woman typically having 200,000 eggs.<\/p>\n<p>That number halves as she enters her 30s and dwindles to as low as 2,000 after the age of 40.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Physorg.com, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news185944666.html\">New Blood Test Will Show Women&#8217;s Egg Levels<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/4321667538\/\" title=\"taking a break by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2771\/4321667538_2b2fc81874.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"taking a break\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I am oh so lucky, fortunate, blessed; nature gave me the biggest gift of my life when I was 44: Women are born with an average of one to two million eggs in their ovaries, which are shed monthly until menopause, with a 20-year old woman typically having 200,000 eggs. That number halves as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motherhood","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5431"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11759,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions\/11759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}