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DD (6) has been VERY interested in babies lately...particularly where they come from....She know a baby grows in a Mommy's Tummy and that some babies are born when "the Dr takes them out" She knows she was not a c-section, so how did she get out of me??!!...And how does the baby get there in the first place. I tried explaining there is a special place the baby comes out of called the birth canal ( and IMO, that was too much info for a 6year old, but she caught me so off guard), but she wants to know where it is and what it looks like.
How do I explain this to a 6 year old without too much detail? *I've successfully been stalling, in hopes she will drop it, but she hasn't.
My friend is pregnant with her 2nd baby and her DS is 6 as well, she told him babies come from the baby store, but I refuse to lie to DD. I'd rather avoid the question than lie....
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That's a good question. My DD is only 3, so i don't have to do alot of explaining yet. Ava will ask why i have a fat tummy.......i said because you were in mommies tummy and it had to get big so you could fit in it. So, last night, she said "you have a fat tummy cause i was in there", i told her yes and she said "how did i get in there?" I just said "God put you in my tummy". And she was fine with that answer.
My parents always told me that i came from Norway. When they would talk about something that happened before i was born, they would say "You were still in Norway when that happened".
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My stepson is 6 and asked his mother where babies came from since I had just had one. She is such an idiot told him babies come out your a##. Not a good thing to tell him!!!
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I read it's very healthy from AGE 4 for babies to know what their privates are and to know a simplified version of where babies come from. I think it's important to really think about your answer and even practice if you need to because she will be repeating it for a long time to everyone she meets.
I'm sure there are many of books out there that explain how baby's are born, that can do it in a more delicate way. But if you would like to explain it to her on a personal level, why not? JMO
Good luck.
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We told my dd (when she was asking at 4.5) the birth canal but she never asked where it was or what it looked like. She simply said that when she got older she'd have a birth canal so babies could come out.
We also said from God
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I bought a preschool book several years ago that explains it in simple terms, but it is more for an older preschooler or early elementary age. We just say that it takes a mommy and a daddy to make a baby..that they each have a different job and together their jobs make a baby (even preschoolers have jobs at school, ie. line leader, table washer, etc.). The baby grows under the mommy's tummy in a special home called a uterus, and when it is time to come out, the dr. decides if he needs to cut your tummy open to get the baby out or if the baby will come out your private area. (We call it that here..and we explain that only a mommy can HAVE the baby!) We also are sure to explain that the dr. fixes the mommy back up, whichever way the baby comes out! It may seem like too much info, but it has satisfied four of my six children who have asked so far in a truthful but non scary way!!
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Thanks Ladies! Jennifer, I really like your explanation....When we told her God puts a baby in mommy's tummy, she asked "So why do you need Daddy?" And that opened a whole nuther door for discussion!
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My son (going to be 6 next friday) thinks that babies are pooped out.
He hasnt asked how they got there and knows he came from mommys tummy but then he asked if he was pooped out into the toilet when he came out of me.
I just show him that show "Baby Story" on TLC. It teaches him some things and I talk to him about it as we watch it.
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Quote[/b] (alexmommy @ July 13 2006,22:31)]My son (going to be 6 next friday) thinks that babies are pooped out.
He hasnt asked how they got there and knows he came from mommys tummy but then he asked if he was pooped out into the toilet when he came out of me.
I just show him that show "Baby Story" on TLC. It teaches him some things and I talk to him about it as we watch it.
I watched baby story every day almost while pregnant, espec.near the end w/my almost 4 yo dd. She didn't ask how the baby gets in my belly, she was more interested in how it gets out. She understands you push the baby out and while on the way to the hospital to deliver dd #2 at 4am, when I was moaning in pain, she kept yelling at me to not push the baby out in the car, wait til I got to the hospital. She just asked the other day how I pushed her sister out and I told her it was like pooping. I don't know what I'll tell her when she asks for more detail.