A nurse is providing patient education to a patient as part of her work in a fertility clinic. The nurse explains possible reasons for infertility. When explaining how the ovaries are involved in conception, what will the nurse stress?
A) Ova quickly degenerate and most are absorbed in the body before the age of 12.
B) The ovaries at birth contain all of the ova that a woman will have.
C) Ova aggregate, causing millions to be contained in a storage site called a follicle.
D) Follicles produce only estrogen; the uterus produces progesterone.
B
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It would be important to explain that the woman's ova do not increase or decrease from birth to childbearing years. The nurse will stress that all the ova that a woman will have will be present at birth. The patient should understand that if she does not ovulate 1 month or for several months, it is not because she has done something to her body to cause this. Ova slowly degenerate over a lifetime or they are released once a month until menopause is complete. Each ovum is contained in a storage site called a follicle, which produces the female sex hormones, estrogen and progesterone.
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