Looking back I do not recall my mother or, for that matter, any of my friends mothers figuring that we, their daughters,  needed to know about menopause. Image by RickC via Flickr Trying to explain cohesively, to any young girl all about the 'big kahuna of womanhood' like hot flushes, turbo-charged mood swings and  unexplained and unwarranted weight gain would surely have been a challenge for our then somewhat ultra conservative mothers. In fact, looking back at my mother's attempt at  the serious business of the big 'mother-daughter/ birds 'n bees' discussion it was so vague and di...