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Explaining how babies are made

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MissRp · 18/01/2023 18:47

My 7 year old is starting to ask questions about how babies are made. Is there a good video on YouTube/ good book that we could look at together to start the discussion? I’m just not quite sure where to start.
thank you xxxxxx

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Cronkywonkycrinkywinky · 18/01/2023 18:54

Take her to the farm, watch animals mating and explain it.

Do it in a really deadpan, factual way: Oh look! The male sheep is putting his penis into the female sheep's vagina. He's going to squirt some stuff called semen into her. In the semen here are things called sperms....*

NB
Use ovum not egg cos it causes confusion.
Babies do not grow in their mummy's tummies - that's where the food goes. Babies grow in their mummy's uteruses.

  • Actually you're too late for this year's sheep breeding season!

** I assume you already know this stuff.

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