“Where do babies come from?”
Caitlyn is thrilled about her new baby girl cousin. … She is so happy to have another little girl to play with that she won’t stop talking about her. Of course, this also has lead to numerous questions about all kinds of topics I’m not ready to tackle yet such as:
- “Mom, why can’t I have a baby sister?”
- “When can Keegan get a brother?”
- and, most horrifically, “Where do babies come from??”
Why does a 3-year-old need to know where babies come from?! She told me that “Aunt Heather had her tummy cut open and they just took that baby right out.” Okay, well, that’s true. I mean, she did have a c-section. But then Caitlyn asked me if that’s how she was born, too. … can you feel the sweat pouring off of me in that moment? I swear I could hear Dave burst out laughing in the next room.
“Keep it up, Chuckles” I yelled to him, “and I’ll send her in there to let YOU answer that one!!”
Caitlyn asked me the other day in the car where babies come from and I answered: “Oh, look honey! We’re at Grandma’s house! Are you ready to go in and play?!”
She looked at me for a second before saying, “Okay, but Moooooooooooooom, where do those babies come from? How do they get out of the tummy?”
I can’t remember what I answered then, but when she asked me again the other night where she came from I knew I had to pony up an answer. She calls her private bits and pieces her “nonni” so I told her she came out of mommy’s. I didn’t know what else to tell her! Dave tells me I just opened a huge can of worms, but I figured she needed some sort of truthful answer, and at least she didn’t ask how the babies got in there in the first place!!!!
January 26th, 2008 at 11:48 am
God made a way for babies to be born… That response worked well for my niece (now 6) a couple years ago.
January 26th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Anna,
That would just not work with Caitlyn (believe me, I tried)!! Her immediate response was “Why?” And then “How did He do that?” She is just way too inquisitive for her age! lol
January 26th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Hannah is 7 and is always saying she’ll never get married because she doesn’t want a baby cut out of her belly. THEN, last night she told me how the baby gets into the tummy…”the doctor puts it in and takes it out and then mommy takes the baby home to the daddy…” Hum, since my doctor is a female…I wonder how that works?
January 26th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Tonya~
I’d like to know how she thinks the “doctor puts it in there”, LOL! Does it work kinda like an Easy Bake oven? Pop it in, let it cook, and pull it out when it’s done?
January 26th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
LOL I think that’s exactly what she thinks! I asked her and she said the baby is folded flat and when the baby is done, it pops upright and the doctor takes the baby out. So, we have established the baby is like a turkey timer, when it’s done, it pops up!
Works for me!
January 28th, 2008 at 12:01 am
I give her pretty much the toned down truth. I told my 5 year old that when mommies and daddies really love each other, God helps them and they have a baby (ok, ok, she can learn the variations on that theme later, for 5 this is all she needs to know). SHE actually asked me if there’s a seed that the baby grows from. I said yes. She asked a question about who put the seed in there and let’s just say I answered truthfully, but diplomatically. She then asked if the baby comes out kind of like a “doody.” I said yes.
ALL FINE AND DANDY until she watched an ep of John & Kate Plus 8 w/ me. Kate shows her post sextuplets stomach. My daughter FREAKED and has been telling everyone who’ll listen that she’s NEVER having babies.
January 28th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Robin ~
I LOVE that show!! Makes me glad that we only have two kids!! Of course, then I start to feel badly that I sometimes have trouble controlling the two that I have when that poor woman has EIGHT and seems to manage just fine….. but yeah, her stomach was kinda freaky looking!