I add about 1/2 cup of baking soda to every load of laundry. We have pretty hard water. The baking soda softens it so that it is more effective at washing away the detergent. Been doing this for a couple of years and I have noticed that our towels don't lose absorbency like towels we've had in the past.
The average number of children each woman will have over the course of her lifetime is called the Fertility Rate In 2011, the overall global life expectancy for both men and women was
Women Waiting Longer to Have Children. American women are having their first babies at increasingly older ages. According to a recent report from the National Center for Health Statistics, the average age of first-time mothers in 2014 was 26.3, up from 24.9 in 2000. The sharpest increases in age have occurred since 2009, when the average was 25.2.