Tuesday, January 6, 2009

That's a lot of potential babies!!!

"At birth, 200,000 to 2,000,000 oogonia (potential eggs) and primary oocytes (more mature potential eggs) remain in each ovary. Of these, about 40,000 remain at puberty and around 400 will mature and ovulate."

Those numbers boggle my mind! I am really glad that a woman doesn't have to ovulate 200,000 to 2,000,000 times in a reproductive lifetime!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I can only imagine!! That is why God made me a male I am convinced! : )

Janelle said...

Hey! Guys have a lot of baby batter as well! It's not just the ladies! We just have to keep the male and female baby batter separate so that it doesn't = a baby!