ELYRIA, Ohio -- For some, making a baby is effortless and fun. For others, it can be a maze of needles, hormones and stress.

5 On Your Side health team reporter Alicia Booth said infertile couples are trying out procreation vacations.

The concept is to go on vacation and make a baby.

Steve and Noemi Sigalove have the kind of family most people dream about -- two healthy children and a great marriage, but it took a lot of work to get there. It took five years of infertility treatment, to be exact.

"You sort of forget about your mate. You forget about what having a baby is all about because you're so caught up in the mechanics of it," said Noemi Sigalove.

"I realized how much Noemi was going through, literally physical pain, emotional pain. There's so much stress," said Steve Sigalove.

Just north of Tucson, Ariz. is Miraval Resort, where Steve and Noemi went to reconnect and put the stress of infertility behind them. Miraval is just one of many resorts around the world offering procreation vacations for couples who want a baby.

"Making love turns into having sex to get a job done. And to me that throws out about 90 percent of what makes it really worthwhile," said Dr. David Taylor, Miraval sex expert.

He and his wife run the intimacy workshops. There's a lot of romance and sex going on at Miraval, but Booth said people shouldn't get the wrong idea.

"It's not X-rated at all, there's no swinging involved. Everyone stays with their spouse and they do their naked part in the privacy of their room," Taylor said.

The workshops give each couple homework exercises to teach them how to break free of the routine and patterns of their sex. The workshops are designed for all couples, but Taylor said he's seen a big increase in those wanting to have a baby.

"There is some scientific evidence that stress can interfere with your ability to conceive, and Miraval is all about learning stress reduction," Taylor said.

Booth said the resort is expensive, and so are fertility treatments. But the Sigaloves said if they had it to do over again they would because a procreation vacation is more than a vacation -- it's an investment.

"Going to Miraval reminds you of why you married that person, why you love to be with that person," Sigalove said.

Booth spoke with a fertility specialist who said it's not going to hurt to take one of these vacations, and it might help. But the real value is probably in taking some of the edge off the pressure to get pregnant, and that can improve your relationship.

The cost is about $7,000 a couple for four nights with meals and workshops included.

If you want more information, check out Miraval's Web site.