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It takes just one egg and one sperm to conceive, but getting them together is not always easy. Following sex, over 250 million sperm set off on a ‘race’ to find and fertilize the egg, but only one makes it all the way to the finish to enter the egg and trigger the whole process of making your baby. These are tough odds. But this is not the beginning, because producing the sperm and eggs is the culmination of complex processes in your and your partner’s bodies, processes that must be carefully regulated by reproductive hormones (chemical messengers). So when starting to think about pregnancy perhaps the most logical starting point is to understand how your own body’s reproductive system works.