Menopause Cafe Shirley B90

30/01/2026

📖 Understanding Menopause: A–Z Glossary

Each week, we’re sharing a few common medical terms you might hear when talking about menopause or early menopause with your healthcare professional. Clear, simple definitions to help you feel more informed and confident in your care.

This week’s terms:
🔹Oophorectomy – removal of the ovaries
🔹Ovary – one of two structures in the female body, about the size of an almond, containing all the eggs of a woman’s reproductive life
🔹Ovulation – the process whereby the egg is developed and released from the o***y
🔹Ovum – an egg in the o***y

🧠 Understanding the language helps you ask the right questions, make informed choices, and feel less overwhelmed.

🔗 Explore and download the full glossary: https://www.imsociety.org/

🌎 Also available in Dutch, Italian and Vietnamese with new translations coming!

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16/01/2026

06/01/2026

free on Saturday 17 January 2026 try this event Menopause Knowledge CIC

What are you up to on Saturday 17th January?!

Join us at the Over 50s Health & Wellbeing Event hosted by the Chai & Chat Community in Solihull

Join Jacky and Aline for a cuppa cup 🍵 ☕ and find out more about our work, the menopause topic and lots of other local services supporting physical health, mental wellbeing, carers, advocacy, and community activities.

🗓️ Saturday 17 January 2026
⏰ 10:30am – 1:30pm
🌎 Solihull Methodist Church, B91 1LG
🎟 Free entry – all welcome!!!

With Mayor of Solihull
Gateway Family Services
Solihull Safeguarding Team
Macmillan
for Wellbeing CIC
Envolve Wellness
Solihull Community Development Team
Breast Friends
Carers Trust Solihull
Everyone Active
Caremark - Home care
Atwal Wealth Management
SIAS Solihull
Solihull Women's Stride Squad CIC

31/12/2025

We learned a lot more about menopause in 2025. Here's the year in menopause science, which included key study findings and recommendations.

19/12/2025

📖 Understanding Menopause: A–Z Glossary

Each week, we’re sharing a few common medical terms you might hear when talking about menopause or early menopause with your healthcare professional. Clear, simple definitions to help you feel more informed and confident in your care.

This week’s terms:
🔹Libido – sexual desire
🔹Lignans – plant estrogens
🔹Local estrogen therapy – where estrogen treatment is delivered directly to the va**na. It’s a local estrogen treatment and is not absorbed throughout the body. It can be in the form of a ring, cream or
pessary that is inserted into the va**na.

🧠 Understanding the language helps you ask the right questions, make informed choices, and feel less overwhelmed.

🔗 Explore and download the full glossary: https://www.imsociety.org/

🌎 Also available in Dutch, Italian and Vietnamese with new translations coming!

🔄 Found this helpful? Save it, share it and follow for reliable information on menopause and midlife women’s health from the world’s leading experts.

06/11/2025

☕ Coffee, Conversations & Community ☕

Join Kerrie from our Community Development Team at
Blossomfield Rose Nursing Home - Macc Care on Tuesday, 11th November- 10 AM - 12 PM!

👋 Stop by for a cuppa, meet the wonderful residents & staff, and find out how we’re working to bring communities together 💛🏡

Whether you're looking to start a group, find funding, volunteer, or connect with local support we’re here to help! Let’s chat and make a difference together. 🤝✨

If your interested in nominating a group , charity , business or resident for the Solihull Civic Awards we can talk about this also.

📍 **Come say hello – we’d love to see you!**

21/10/2025

Your pharmacist can provide treatment or some prescription medicine, if needed, for seven common conditions - without you seeing a GP.

Think pharmacy first and get seen by your local community pharmacy team.

18/10/2025

Excellent video - how to examine your chest

18/10/2025

World Menopause day 2025 - raising awareness and asking for equitable evidence-based menopause care International Menopause Society