I explained a little bit of the birds and the bees to my five year old last night. We were sitting out on the roof top patio last night talking about dinosaurs, extinction, endangered species, etc, when the question was asked. "but mommy.....where do the babies come out of the mommies?" So I calmly and honestly responded: "Babies come out of their mom's vaginas" Her response was priceless. "WHAT THE!!!..........Are you kiddin' me?"
I wish I would have had our video camera out last night. Maybe I'll set up a tri-pod when I tell her how babies are made.
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I love this! Lucy is the best! She is so smart because really, that is still my reaction.
OH that is pricless! so cute. I still think they need to figure out a way for babies to come out of our belly bouttons, cuz what purpose dooes it have anyway?
That's what I was thinking Tammy. I (as you know) had two c-sections, so Ive never had to push a baby out my vagina before. Thank Goodness. I wonder what Eve thought when her belly started to swell and she realized how that thing was going to get that thing out of her body. I imagine her reaction was similar to Lucy's.
To me... it's just this cool thing, because you have to work to get it out. I have a fascination with mechanically trying to make something work that seems difficult. Pushing out a baby is so much like that and so I find it fascinating. I just don't think about the fact that it is actually a vagina. It morphs into something else during baby delivery and then a few months after.. turns back into your vagina. That's how I look at it. You should tell Lucy that.. maybe it will help with the trauma.
yes, but you only think that because you witnessed it recently. Watching it happen does change your perception of it, for awhile. As the memory of the awesomeness of childbirth fades, it will likely start to seem crazy again. At least, it does to me.
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