Great News! I'm Pre-Pregnant!

Let's revisit. In May, new federal guidelines advised all women of child-bearing age (and nowadays that seems to be 6-60) to consider their bodies in a permanent state of about-to-be-knocked up healthy readiness. It's not about your health, the guideliness imply, it's about the health of the baby you may have one day. With teen birth rates going down, not up, you can still never be too careful. So, from first period to menopause, think of yourself as -- forever pre-pregnant.

Here's a helpful illustration to explain how it works.