Where do babies come from?

[clairefromsteps]

I'm currently 19 weeks pregnant with DC3 (so I'm obviously not asking the question for my own sake!). So far our B/G twins have been quite happy with the fact that there's a baby growing in mummy's tummy but I think at some point the question 'So mummy, how did the baby GET there?' is going to crop up.

What did you tell your four year old if/when they asked?

try this book.

It's funny and truthful (and also slightly embarrassing)

Babies come from hell. Especially on a Sunday afternoon when they are aged 8 and knackered and fighting.

Breathe!

At that age it was something like the dad gives the mum a seed. If questions arise like how then answer is something like 'with a lot of love'.

Mine used to ask questions and I'd answer and they'd go off and digest that, then come back weeks later with another question. They were about 6 when I told them the mechanics of how babies are made.

Lol - I like 'with a lot of love'! My DS is very reluctant to accept answers he feels are in any way incomplete and I was wondering at what point it becomes too much information.

One of mine is a right proper skeptic as well. I think it is a gradual build up tbh and at 4 then it's not probably really within your children's grasp to question that much. But there is no problem at 4 with telling them exactly how conception happens if it comes to the point where it seems stupid to withold the info. That point didn't come until mine were 6, but then I didn't have another pregnancy after my twin one. You are very brave!