The Sperm and the Egg

One of the hardest things to do in a parent’s life is to try and explain where babies come from. Often parents tend to take the well known cute little story about the birds and the bees, because it a short simple story. Others may decide and take the scientific approach which can be a little harder, but the end result will be accurate information that they can actually use when they get older. When going this route the only problem you may run into is, try to explain how the sperm got to the egg in the first place. The first thing to start of the discussion should be naming the two most important necessary things that are a must in order to make a baby and that are the sperm and the egg. After explain what these are you can then comfortably move onto the journey of the sperm and its final destination the egg. Explaining what these two things are and how they are made will make it a lot easier in explaining the whole entire journey.

The sperm is a little tiny male sex cell. If you could examine them under a microscope they would actually look like little tiny tadpoles. Sperm is so tiny that you can’t see just one with the human eye. The sperm is made in the male testicles and it takes about 72 days just to make one. A female egg is produced in a woman’s body every month hat she has a menstrual cycle and it only lives anywhere from 12-24 hours max after ovulation. If a woman is trying to get pregnant it is a good idea to have sex right before ovulation, because a sperm can live inside the woman’s body for about 2 days. The actual egg is released exactly 14 days before the woman’s menstrual cycle.

Egg production is a very important part of the female reproduction system. Hormones, ovaries, fallopian tubes, vagina, and the uterus all work together during egg production to get an egg ready for possible fertilization. Sperm production in a man starts in the man’s testicles. It is released through the penis when a man ejaculates, and the name