The birds and the bees

[floiejo2]

I am 10 weeks pregnant and we have not told our 2 girls yet but plan to after our first midwife appt. in about a week, after we've seen that everything is okay. We know as soon as we tell our 6yrold her next question will be how does this all happen. So I'd like to be prepared with a good book to read with her that explains things but not in too much detail. She is only 6. Any recommendations?

[bonamarq]

Sheilah Kitzinger's Being Born has beautiful pictures and tells it from the point of view of talking to the child reading the book -but it is very detailed - but since I am the one reading to my child I just sort of 'summarize' those details b/c dd can't read yet... it also has some pretty graphic birth pics - but my dd saw my own and has always known where babes come from

[LynnS6]

Another good book is "It's not the Stork". It's pretty detailed, but very age appropriate.

This is how the conversations went with dd:
When she was 3, she wanted to know how babies grew. I told her they grew in the mother's womb.
When she was 3 1/2, she wanted to know how the babies were made. I told her they were formed when an egg from mom and a sperm from dad got together. The resulting cells traveled to the womb and stayed there and developed into a baby.
When she was 4, she wanted to know how the sperm and the egg got together. I told her that mommy and daddy put daddy's penis into mommy's vagina and the sperm came out and swam up to the egg.

If you answer the questions factually, your children will let you know if they need more detail. FWIW, ds didn't ask those questions until he was considerably worth.