To not be asked by 60 children where babies come from?

Just to possibly put your mind at ease a bit I used to teach this age group and was pregnant with a very inquisitive class! I lived in constant fear of the “how did the baby get in there” question but it didn’t come up once. The children asked me loads of questions and we talked about the baby a lot but that didn’t even seem to occur to them, I think they just saw it as a normal thing to become a mummy. At that age they also want to show off their own knowledge a lot so I imagine rather than questions you’d get a lot of my mummy, auntie, neighbour, mummy’s friend etc had a baby type statements.

I’m sure police officers and firefighters speaking to a group of five year olds wouldn’t be telling them the harsh realities of their jobs or anything they might be too young to understand. If you wanted to, I’m sure you could talk about your job in an appropriate way but it sounds like you don’t want to. I would imagine the teacher would deal with any tricky questions.

Can you read a couple of 'Mummy's Having a Baby' books aimed at that age group so you get a feel for how to pitch it?

But really, if you're at all conflicted, maybe a polite pass, or offer to speak to older kids if you'd really like to engage.

I don't think she's going to give the worst stories. You can just do a basic talk about how you help babies be delivered. If they ask how they're delivered you can say either through the vagina or sometimes as a Caesarean and explain what that is. No need to go into horror stories.

One of the parents school is a funeral director and did a similar talk to them when that I think they were about seven or eight. He just kept it really basic but the kids found it fascinating. I think learning about birth and death is healthy and the younger th3 better to be honest! Just deflect the questions you don't want to answer about sex

My 5 year old is less interested in how the baby "pops out" and more interested in hearing the heartbeat on the doppler and finding out how to take blood pressure if you do decide to do it there's easy distractions - I'd probably be a pass though 😂

Nah whoever has asked you to do it is being a bit short- sighted. Just say no

Be very careful - what is normal and everyday to you could frighten and horrify young girls into never having kids. I don't mean teen pregnancies; I mean never.

My son is in year 1 and I'd have no problem with this. He already knows where babies come out from as he has a 9 month old brother and asked me how he would get out!

Of course you don't have to do it, but year 1 is such a brilliant age for inquisitive questions. (And yes, I know that's part of the concern). If you have the time, I'd do it like pp said, you're there to help mummies with babies in their tummies. If you get asked how they get there, that's not part of your job, they'll have to ask the teacher.

Tbh, it feels like school perhaps haven't thought this through but it would be great if you did it. As a parent of kids that age, I'd have no problem with it. We need to stop being so Victorian about all things biological and the more things are normalised the better.

This is something that kids that age do not need to know. That information should be given at home when the question arises.
I would keep my child away from that talk.
A nurse talking about care in hospital or at home or first response is completely different.

If you don't want to do it or don't think it's appropriate, don't do it. It doesn't really matter what the reason is. You're not obliged to do these things.

Do u know what op I think I’d pass this. Too complicated. Too many ifs just be busy and save the headache.

If you did want to I would take in a fetal model set if you have access to one and show them how a baby develops. Perhaps with fruit of similar size so they can touch and hold it and compare it.

Then talk about your uniform and different things you wear / the fancy little watch will have them enthralled 😂.

Show the equipment you use to listen to the heart, and let them try it on each other if it's not delicate. Let them listen to a heart beat, see an ultrasound and guess where the head is.

However, having taught Sex Ed at Secondary it often brings up quite sensitive topics, I've had students ask what a miscarriage is or how you 'lose' a baby as that happened to their parents when they were younger and stories of still birth and things that even at 11+ they don't really have an understanding of but are terms they have heard used at home. So I might decide not to on that front.

I very much doubt the school is expecting you to deliver sex education 🤣
it’ll be more like “I look after mummies before and after they have a baby” “some midwives work in a hospital some in a clinic”

The obvious response is to tell them to ask their teacher. But I would check with the teacher whether s/he has thought this through and is ready to deal with that one.

Actually after reading this I think it definetly could be done and fun and interesting for the children!
Im thinking chats about check ups - blood pressure, listening to baby’s heart. Maybe a scan of a baby in the tummy and where its head and legs are.
Not too much about birth - just you help mummies give birth to their babies and then maybe about visiting mum afterwards, weighing the baby (bring in the scales?) and nice bits like that.
The tricky bit is all the questions they will inevitably ask - how does baby come out, how did it get there etc! I guess you might have to come prepped with some skim over it type answers!

Could you give them a bullet list of things you could discuss and say also that you have concerns about speaking because of xyz reasons. The school should if you do go ahead send out a letter to parents with the outline and ask if parents are happy for their child to be included. If you are not happy about doing it then say with your reasons.

Yeah I'd swerve that if you can. If you can't, can you just say something like "I look after little babies as soon as they get out of their mum's tummy and I look after mummies who have babies in their tummies." Something really low level. Then talk about how you can listen to the heart and maybe tell them about ultrasound with a picture and point out which bit of the weird space alien thing on the photo/projector screen is the baby's head?

I wouldn’t as at that stage some may know where and how babies are born and some won’t. I think most would know that they grow in their mummies tummy but not about birth.

You’re reasonable to say no if you like, but I think you’re overthinking it. If they ask something you can’t answer you just say “I’m afraid I can’t answer that”, “That’s a question you need to ask your parent”, “Oh that’s not a part of my job” etc etc.

Surely this is just a careers or “what different jobs people have” type talk and you can go in and talk about the checks you’d carry out on a baby? Bring your stethoscope and demonstrate it? You don’t have to talk about birth or your actual specific midwifery role.

But if you don’t want to do it then say so, I doubt they’ll give it a second thought.

It's possible this is for 'people who help us'. You could just talk about working in a hospital, a bit about doctors and nurses who help sick people and then say you are a special type of nurse who helps mummies when they have babies.

It’s fairly common for people to go into schools and talk about their jobs if they might be interesting to children - firefighter, police officer. At that age they often do a topic on ‘people that help us’ but maybe teacher has slightly misjudged it with midwife and not thought about the questions it might bring!

To five year olds?

It depends though, if you're just doing 5 minutes on your job with other parents doing the same thing I can't imagine it would be asked or not be something you couldn't brush past. Surely you could talk about your job 'caring for mummies' without any focus on how the baby got in there. At 5 they are going to be less interested than you think. I think if it was year 5 it would be a difficult talk but Y1 would be fine. My kids have been quite happy at 5 with, babies grow in mummies tummies, in response to 'where do they come from'.

It’s a careers talk , give s speel about your job and tell teacher you won’t be taking questions