Just buggered up the birds and the bees conversation....

[LadyTambaOfTambaTown]

DS1 is 4 and as sil is pg he has been asking alot of questions about how babies are made and where the get out from.

DS1 - Do babies come out of your bum?

Me - No, they come out from where a lady has a wee-wee

DS1 - Why dont they come out of daddys?

Me - Cause they wouldnt fit...

DS1 - How do they get in your tummy?

Me - Well, mommys have little eggs and when the daddy waters them they grow...

DS1 - How are they watered?

Me - well, err Daddies have magic water

DS1 - Can I see?

Me - Oh, you will have your own when you are married...

Ds1 wanders off looking very confused. Have I warped him for life??

we are at the same stage, ds is also 4.
one of the other mums at preschool is pregnant and i suppose they all talk about it.

ds told me yesterday he used to live in my tummy when he was a small baby and he didnt like it!!

and is there a baby living in there now?
(not a hope in hell )

Not sure your version is any more confusing that the reality for a 4 year old.

Time to worry is when he asks you for the magic water on his wedding day!

Yeah, I think the truth is simpler and clearer. My DS1 is 4, and understands a lot of it from Mummy Laid an Egg, anyway, which has The Great Sperm Race in it.

we told our ds that mommy has an egg in her tummy, and daddy plants a seed in there,

seems to do the trick - i floundered a little on 'why don't you have a winkie mummy...'

magic water LOL!!

I told dd1 that my tummy was cut open to get her out (Caesarean) but wish I hadn't because it scared her and for a few days afterwards she kept saying in a worried voice "I don't want to have my tummy cut open."

I'm not planning on raising the subject again, unless she asks about it...

Hmmmm well, seeing as my mother is now pregant, DS's new question is:

Where does Grandad keep his magic water!

Try answering that one!!!!!

LOL I don't think there is a right way of doing this is there...our ds is also 4 (well 4 tomorrow). DD is now 1, but when I was expecting her we had a smililar conversation...

DS - how did the baby get in your tummy?
Me - well daddy put it there
DS - how?
Me - well daddy gave mummy a special cuddle and passed the baby to me
DS - where did daddy keep the baby?
Me - in his winkie
DS - hmmmm, how will the baby come out of your tummy?
Me - it'll come out of my nu nu
DS - hmmm

{no more on the subject all day. Daddy arrives home at 5.30}

DS -

kids always say the funniest things. Hysterical laughter... had me laughing too...

Must have been thinking about it all day long. Though I must say, I agree that Daddy's winkie is too small to have a baby in it. What common sense at such a young age.

LadyTamba - surely the answer is that Grandad keeps his magic water in his tentacles.