LIDDY: Let's hope that the key conferences aren't when she's menstruating or something, or just before she's going to menstruate.
Some who have taken it for two years or more, then stopped because they wanted a baby, have failed to menstruate and ovulate, and therefore to conceive, for as long as 18 months.
In the 1800s, social historians tell us, the average girl began to menstruate at 15; now the average age is 12.