basal body temperature (BBT), 106, 110–13, 117, 118, 119

Baylor University Medical Center, 321

BBT (see basal body temperature)

Bicknell, Kati, 107–15, 148

Biden, Joe, 198

bilateral dermoid cysts, 89n

biological clock, 27, 44, 57, 98, 165, 211, 255, 270, 271, 278

BIPOC people, 185, 202–4, 206

birth control pills (see contraception)

birth defects, 300, 301

Birth of the Pill, The (Eig), 38

birth rates, 41–42, 43n, 277, 295

birth weight, 173n

Black women

maternal and reproductive health of, 202–4

salaries of, 42

blastocysts, 173–74

bloating, 72, 161, 213, 217

blood clots, 81

blood work, 35, 63, 67, 92, 212, 213, 218, 295n

Bloomberg, 258, 259n

Bloomberg Businessweek, 57, 304

BMI (see body mass index)

body mass index (BMI), 218n

bracelets, digital, 116, 117

Brauer, Anate, 327

BRCA gene mutation, 262, 263, 325, 326

breast cancer, 81, 94, 220, 225, 260–63

breastfeeding, 55–56

breast pumps, 116

breast self-exams, 22

breast tenderness, 76, 217

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 174

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 187

Brown, Eliza, 270

Brown, Lesley, 251–52

Brown, Louise Joy, xvii, 251–53

Bundl, 190

Burks, James, 45

Burton, Susan, 324n

Bush, Barbara, 15

Bush, George W., 15

Bush, Laura, 15

Business Insider, 275n

BuzzFeed, 185

C

caffeine, 66, 92, 98, 135, 280

California, fertility treatment insurance coverage in, 194

cancer, risk of fertility treatments and, 220–21, 223–26, 257

cancer patients, 49, 50, 93–94, 169, 194, 206, 260–63, 288, 321, 322, 324–25