Making a baby isn't always easy. For some couples, they have sex and it just happens. For others, it takes time and even medical help. One of my friends has three beautiful kids that she was able to have through in vitro fertilization. The triplets are 6 years old now and fantastic little beings none of us can imagine our lives without. I remember the stress and pain she experienced when going through the process. But it was worth every second. Any couple who wants to have a baby and are having a hard time getting pregnant can attest to the pain and stress -- more than seven million people face some form of infertility, so that's a lot of people potentially considering IVF.

What if a new test can take some of that stress away? A personalized test to give you your chances of success with IVF has been invented.

Admitting that you have a gender preference when you are going for a baby is one of those crazy taboos that few people are willing to cop to. After all, some people say you ought to be grateful just to have ANY healthy baby. Of course we will, but some of us can't help but have SOME preference. Perhaps we already have two of one and are going for the third to get that other sex. Or maybe we want our kid to have a same (or opposite) sex sibling.

Whatever the reason, we have every right to wish and hope, and there is science that backs up the idea that we can actually have our way. Here are 6 different methods of choosing which sex you get during conception. Let us know if they work for you! See below:

Baby number one is the easiest one to make (assuming you are healthy and fertile, etc.). It’s just you and your partner and oodles and oodles of time. Have sex in the kitchen, why not? There are no little people there to stop you. Have sex in the morning? Why not? There are no tiny feet at your head and extra people in your bed.

For us, even baby number two was easy enough to make. Our baby was a great sleeper so every weekend we had hours of “nap time” to get horizontal ourselves and then an early bed time that gave us lots of alone moments.

Then those babies grow. They become big kids with schedules of their own and constant noise and demands. They can’t be placed in one area and expected to stay in that area for longer than three minutes, which is why making that third baby is probably the hardest one at all.

OMG. It's been a while since a story really moved me and gave me chills, but after hearing about how 10-month-old Ashley Fife came into the world, I'm having a tough time getting the lump out of my throat.

The baby's parents, Samantha and Jordan Fife, adopted her -- but Samantha also carried her in her womb and gave birth to her. (Yes, really.)

They already have two adoptive daughters, and when they decided they wanted to add a third child to their family, they stumbled across a nontraditional way of going about the process -- embryo donation.

Here's the amazing part -- the Fifes adopted Ashley's frozen embryo, which was one of five unused embryos leftover from a couple from Arizona, Dana and Vince Davis, who had undergone IVF.

Khloe Kardashian had hoped it would be easy to get pregnant, but as we now know, it's been anything but for the youngest Kardashian sister. Opening up about her infertility struggles in the new issue of Cosmopolitan U.K., Khloe reveals that she'll have to take hormones if she ever wants to have a baby.

Now, it's not like any of the Kardashians are exactly shrinking violets when it comes to sharing the details of their lives (understatement of the year), but still, I commend Khloe for being so open about her battle with infertility. It's something so many women deal with, but aren't always able to talk about because it can feel shameful or like some kind of personal failure -- which of course it's not!

Here's what Khloe said about trying to get pregnant with hubby Lamar Odom, which is just so honest of her:

You guyyyyyssss! After seeing the billowy dress she wore to support her yoga instructor Mandy Ingber's new book, Yogalosophy -- it really does look as though Jennifer Aniston might be expecting a baby.

I know pregnancy rumors have followed her for about a decade and all -- but she really does seem to have a different sort of glow going on these days.

And oh yeah, she also made a comment that could be a major teaser that a little one is on the way.

“I’m not wasting any time chasing a relationship when I could be trying for a baby.” This is how one woman explained why she had pre-arranged sex with a total stranger. She met him on a dating site for sperm donors, and the only reason she slept with him was to try and conceive a child.

How far would you go to fulfill your dreams of parenthood? For some women, they're turning to what's being called "natural insemination." While traditional donor sites are intended to provide single women, lesbian, or infertile couples with sperm samples to be used in artificial insemination, the new trend is to use something like Co-Parents.net, which is described as a dating site for co-parenting and sperm donors.

What's natural insemination, you ask? Well, it's ... pretty much exactly what it sounds like.

For many couples, conceiving a baby is just a matter of ditching the contraceptives and gettin' busy. But if you feel like you need a little extra help, you can try a few natural practices before trying more medically intrusive fertility treatments. And you can use some of these methods to support fertility treatments as long as your doctor approves them. Here are 10 natural fertility practices that might help boost your fertility.