So just to start with, can you run through a few outdated terms you come across in women's

reproductive terminology, like for example, geriatric pregnancy, vaginal atrophy, ovarian failure?

Could you run through some outdated terms?

Oh, Lord, how outdated are we talking?

Hostile uterus is still used a lot.

It means that the sperm and egg is not able to merge.

I've heard senile uterus use, which is really outdated.

I've heard from a doctor that her own uterus was just called old.

But I do think it has to do with the conditions that make it easier for an egg to implant.

If it looks like that's not going to be easy, they call it barren, old, hostile, senile.

Not all these terms are used today, obviously.

I don't know about you, but by the time I hit my 20s,

my reproductive health became a topic of conversation, whether I'd have kids, when I might have

them, and how I had to make these decisions soon, before nature made the decision for me. So like,

instead of talking about my eggs, like a natural part of me that

changed over time, just like any other part of my body. They felt like an impending failure that I had

to account for. And to be frank, it feels like that's the way we talk about a lot of women's reproductive

functions. I mean, maybe you're familiar with the term geriatric pregnancy.

It's a term used to describe pregnancy in people over the age of 35. Now, the medical community

has made some strides to encourage providers and patients to phase out the term, noting the increase

in the age of first-time mothers and generally how damaging it can be to patients who are,

for all intents and purposes, still relatively young.

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