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began to analyse her body temperature in order to reveal the days when she was most fertile. "I wanted to give my body a break from the pill," she explained, "but I couldn't find any good forms of natural birth control, so I wrote an algorithm for myself." With her husband's encouragement, this led her to develop a fertility app, suitable for use by any woman.
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