With more women postponing marriage, a growing number of couples are relying on fertility treatments to help them conceive. Many are also turning to more alternative methods to increase the odds of becoming pregnant.

According to the Texas Center for Reproductive Acupuncture, one in six couples suffers from some sort of fertility problem, but the group says it's helping a growing number of women -- not only to become pregnant -- but to successfully deliver healthy babies.

Christy Martin, 36, and her husband spent more than two years trying to get pregnant. She said medical fertility treatments didn't work.

“We were at the maximum amount of dosage of shots and they told us, 'you're done. You're not even stimulating your eggs anymore....'” said Martin.

After a hitting a heartbreaking hurdle, Martin kept trying.

“I just wasn't ready to accept defeat yet,” said Martin. So she turned to reproductive acupuncturist, Kirsten Karchmer. Five months later, she was pregnant.

“I cried a whole lot that day,” said Martin.

“If we work on the assumption that your body communicates with electricity, that neurons travel along nerves via electricity, when you put a needle in your body, which is metal, it disrupts that movement,” said Karchmer. She believes reproductive acupuncture, including Chinese herbal medicine, nutritional counseling, and stress management, can significantly improve a woman's chances of becoming pregnant.

“Within the realm of infertility, there's so many different problems -- there's poor ovarian reserve, there's…no menstrual cycle, there's extremely painful menstrual cycles, there are endometriosis, there are lot of different diagnosis, so for each of those different diagnosis, we try to understand why does that patient present with those symptoms, then correct those symptoms,” said Karchmer.

Karchmer says about 92 percent of her patients become pregnant during a 12 month span, about 40 percent of them use medical fertility treatments in conjunction with acupuncture.

“To be able to make your own was pretty cool,” said Martin. She’s expecting a baby girl in October.

While many doctors support reproductive acupuncture in conjunction with fertility drugs, some discourage the use of herbal medicines.

Reproductive acupuncture costs about $80 per session.