David learns about technological advances that help infertile couples increase their odds for conception. Then you may know that it is a misleading way of referring to a baby conceived through in vitro fertilization. All babies develop from two different cells that join together- the sperm and the ovum . Women are born with about a million reproductive ova that are produced and developed in the ovaries, organs which are located within the abdominal cavity.
Men produce millions of sperm each day in organs called the testes.
Knowing this, it seems that couples who want to become parents should have no problem doing so. But one of every 12 American couples who want to have a baby cannot. Infertility can be caused by any number of medical problems. Low sperm counts or poor-quality sperm sometimes cause infertility in men. Problems that affect ovulation or the ability of the ovum to enter the fallopian tube and move to the proper place for fertilization can cause infertility in women.