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.
In general, women who have had their fallopian tubes removed will not conceive a baby without medical intervention. According to the Loma Linda University Center for Fertility & IVF, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is the only way for a woman to become pregnant after losing both of her fallopian tubes.