Emily McDowell had never heard of perimenopause before learning about it from her doctor. But when she shared her experience on Instagram, thousands of women said they were going through the same thing.
was about 40 years old, she started to feel different.McDowell's doctor told her she something she'd never heard before. What she was experiencing was"puberty in reverse" — also known as"perimenopause."In layman's terms that means"around menopause," the time during which a woman's body makes the natural transition to menopause, marking the end of the reproductive years. And it's so much more than hot flashes.
So McDowell, the founder of a stationery brand called Em & Friends, started talking about it on Instagram and thousands of women said they were going through the same thing. So McDowell, who is an artist by trade, decided to put words to what she and millions of others experience by creating"Menopause greeting card by Em & Friends.
Em & Friends is known for creating greeting cards as a way to help normalize things we all go through, like grief, cancer and even the pandemic.
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