Friends came to visit with her three-year-old when I was hugely pregnant. When they told her there was a baby in my belly her first reaction was, “she ate the whole thing?” And then she tried to lift up my dress to take a look.

what makes a baby
https://www.amazon.com/What-Makes-Baby-Cory-Silverberg/dp/1609804856

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I said God planted a seed in my belly, and a baby grows, similar to how a tree grows from other seeds. My 3 yo does not need to know specifics.

Have you explained Jesus to them too?

Or Allah, or Buddha, or Krishna, or any others?

There’s an old book called “where did I come from?” that I read to my 7yo and my 4yo also happened to be in the room. It pretty much covers it, and does go into more detail than I was expecting. But does it in a frank way.

Anyway my 4yo, about midway through the book said to me “stop reading that. That’s disgusting.” LOL so I don’t think he was ready for it.

So much easier if you explain how mammals make babies from the beginning when kids ask. We are all mammals, and this how all mammals have babies.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can keep to the
Daddy has a sperm that connects with an egg in my body. (Or puts in my uterus where the egg is) The sperm all want to join with the egg. One of those sperm wins and that becomes our baby. The baby will grow and grow for 9 months and then be born, just like you were.

And hope he doesn't ask how Daddy puts the sperm in your body.

That was the first question my kid asked after I mentioned the sperm and the egg. I punted, somewhat justified since we were at Starbucks at the time, but I never did pick up the conversation and it’s been like six months.

Definitely the patrons of Starbucks cannot handle the truth about sex.

Anonymous wrote:You can keep to the
Daddy has a sperm that connects with an egg in my body. (Or puts in my uterus where the egg is) The sperm all want to join with the egg. One of those sperm wins and that becomes our baby. The baby will grow and grow for 9 months and then be born, just like you were.

And hope he doesn't ask how Daddy puts the sperm in your body.

That was the first question my kid asked after I mentioned the sperm and the egg. I punted, somewhat justified since we were at Starbucks at the time, but I never did pick up the conversation and it’s been like six months.

Anonymous wrote:Why is it so scary to name actual body parts that everyone in your family has and describe their function? This is not explicit, this is actual human biology that has been essential for the existence of humanity. Birds and bees do it, too.

I have no trouble telling the names of the body parts, but honestly what I am afraid of is that if I explain to my goofball 6yo that the man’s penis goes in the woman’s vagina, he is going to find it very funny and do something bizarre with the information like try to act it out or something else inappropriate. Maybe that is ridiculous, but something about my kid makes me nervous about it. Hell, my mom didn’t explain it to me until I was 9, so six still seems young.