Dr. Vonda Wright

And I think support can come in a lot of ways, but...

the financial burden to a large corporation of having a stopgap childcare at work.

So maybe if you're not gonna offer full childcare, because you're getting a lot of productivity out of women if they know their children are on campus and can go at lunchtime.

But if you're not willing to do that, if you have a stopgap where instead of calling your attending or one day my nanny didn't show up and I had to find some way,

just for those emergencies within the corporation, that breeds loyalty, that will increase productivity.

And so I think it's money well spent.

A daycare on site.

Whether it's full-time, like bring your children full-time there, or that's a big corporate, but a smaller corporate commitment would be this emergency childcare so that your kid's not there all the time, but maybe they're sick or maybe somebody didn't show up and then...

Well, I think that there's a tendency in medicine to want to have definitions.

Yes.

So I personally, and I know a lot of us who talk all the time, think that this random 366 days after your last period, that's your menopause day.

I think that's pretty random, and I don't know who made that up.

But...

Because I'm not an OB, but when I have patients come in to me for their musculoskeletal things, and they're of a certain age, and I don't just focus on whatever the musculoskeletal body part is, but we start talking about their whole health, and they start talking about these things, I am often the first one to say to them,

You know what?

You are probably in perimenopause.

And they're like, but my cycles are regular.

I'm like, but you are beginning this transition, which I call menolescence.

But it's this, right?

I would propose that most people don't seek out a lot of help earlier.