These are the things you inherit from your mother

Your fertility

Just because Mom had her last kid at 44 doesn’t guarantee you’ll be able to do the same, says Jamie Grifo, MD, director of the Fertility Center at NYU Langone Medical Center: "Sometimes it’s just luck." But there is evidence that the age at which Mom went through menopause may give you clues about your own fertility. A study published in Human Reproduction found that for young women whose moms stopped ovulating before 45, their number of eggs declined more rapidly than those of women whose mothers didn’t reach menopause till age 55.Miscarriages can run in families as well. One cause is an inherited chromosomal mix-up called balanced translocation, which can make pregnancies unviable.