You should have a colonoscopy every 10 years starting at age 50. Alternatively, you may get a flexible sigmoidoscopy every five years, a double-contrast barium enema every five years or a CT colonography (virtual colonoscopy) every five years. However, a colonoscopy will be needed if any of those results are positive.
Jena Pincott explains that even after a mother gives birth, her babyâs cells remain inside her body â and work tiny wonders. In an excerpt from her book Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?, Pincott explains that pregnancy is really only the beginning for mother and baby cell-sharing.
On each side of the top of the uterus, there are two appendages: an ovary and a fallopian tube. At birth, a baby girls ovaries hold about one million follicles. A follicle is an unripe egg held in a sac. All of these follicles are produced by the time the fetus is just four months old!