National Infertility Awareness Week, 184

nausea, 76

NBC News, 52

New Hampshire, fertility treatment insurance coverage in, 193

New Jersey, fertility treatment insurance coverage in, 193, 194

New York, fertility treatment insurance coverage in, 193

New Yorker, The, 190, 200, 256, 299–300, 323n

New York magazine, 32

New York Times, The, 31, 43n, 179, 189, 191, 224–25, 276, 292n, 324n

New York Times book review, 140

New York Times Magazine, The, 25, 142

New York University Langone Fertility Center, 32, 86, 171–72, 176, 255, 311

New York University Langone Medical Center, 31

New York University School of Medicine, 225

Nimura, Janice P., 140

Norway, 204

Noyes, Nicole, 32–36, 334

nutritional supplements, 29

O

Obama, Michelle, 203

obesity, 203n

OB/GYNs, 139, 141

OHSS (see ovaries, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome)

online egg freezing calculators, 177, 343

oocyte cryopreservation (see egg freezing)

oocytes, 29, 68, 149, 153, 172

oogonia, 28

Orenstein, Peggy, 272–73

organic tampons, 116

Organon, 123, 124

Our Bodies, Ourselves, 124

Ova, 192

ovaries, 7, 8, 12, 13, 22, 28–30, 33–36, 64, 69, 71–78, 88–95, 103, 125, 126, 128–30, 147, 150, 215–17, 246–47, 278–79, 281, 282, 302, 337, 338, 341–43

cancer, 262, 287, 326n, 334

cysts, 13, 72, 73, 77–78, 85, 89, 93, 179, 218, 246, 247

ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS), 213–14, 217–18, 220, 223, 224n, 279

ovarian torsion, 77, 85, 92n, 146, 218, 279, 333

reserve (egg count), 12, 125, 129

reserve testing, 129–31, 133, 134

tissue freezing, 320–21, 331–32

Ovation Fertility Nashville, 266

ovulation, 29, 34, 35, 64, 68, 69, 72, 74–76, 93, 105–7, 109–11, 116–18, 120, 121, 125, 126, 135, 148, 215, 217

ovulation calculator, 113

ovulatory disorders, 93, 132

ovum (see egg cells)

P

Pacelli, Giulio, 215–16

Pacific Fertility Center, 285–87, 289, 291–92, 293n

Pacific Northwest Fertility, 177, 286

Pal, Lubna, 141n