When did you have the conversation about where babies come from?

[RedRobyn2021]

Interested to know

My mum told me when I asked, aged 4 (mid 90s if you're interested) and I think she did the right thing although a lot of other parents at the time thought she shouldn't have

I know a lot of parents nowadays are advised to make sure their children give the correct names for genitals, that's something we have done

DD asked her dad today where babies come from (she is 2 almost 3) and he didn't really answer

My DD asked at about the same age as yours, maybe a bit younger, when I was pregnant with DD1. At that age I just went with "babies come from eggs in mummy's tummy".

I have no issue with children being told the facts at a young age, but at 2.5 it was more an issue of her actual understanding generally (and her attention span) that led me to a simplistic answer.

I don't remember being told, but I know we had a book "mummy laid an egg". This book made it clear that mummy did not lay an egg, it's cartoon-ish but clearly lays out that its penis in vagina (can't remember the words it uses though), and talks about sperm and eggs. I think I had this quite young. I've just googled it and I'm quite surprised my parents bought it, the drawings are quite something!

When they start asking tbh, in an age appropriate form.

When they asked in an age appropriate way.

"Mummy and daddy have a special cuddle and then mummy grows the baby" at 2/3
At 4 DS has overheard teens chatting and knew it had something to do with "willy and balls" so I told him.

1. He knows that Mummy and Daddy had a special grown up cuddle, then Daddy gave Mummy a special seed which joined up with an egg in Mummy's tummy and that grew in to him. I guess we will add more detail as and when he asks for it or it crops up.

Neither of my children have ever asked. DD1 is in Y5 so will be doing sex-ed this year with explanations of how it all happens in an age appropriate way. I’m currently pregnant with DC3 but she was old enough to remember me being pregnant with DD2 so doesn’t really ask questions. Both DDs know I have a baby in my tummy but neither have asked how he got there.

DD2 is in the habit of asking what her nipples are and I tell her their names factually. We’ll do the same when she asks about genitals (she 100% will when DS is born).

My four year old knows that eggs come from Mummy and sperm from Daddy and they get together and make a baby that grows in Mummy's womb. She's known for about a year or so (a friend was pregnant and she asked). She hasn't yet asked how the sperm gets to the egg so we've not done that bit in any detail!