'I thought there’s no way I could be menopausal — I’ve just had a baby'
Emily Collins who got her first symptom of menopause at the age of 36 when her second daughter was six months old. Picture: Moya Nolan
After Dublin mother of one Lorraine Heffernan had her daughter, Ava, now three, at the age of 45, she didn’t think about perimenopause.
“I thought there’s no way I could be menopausal,” Lorraine says. “I’ve just had a baby. That’s years down the line.”
