Wednesday Writings: "Those Questions"

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Prompt #4. Are you feeling brave?

Ask your child where babies come from and share their answers.

My baby will be 21 next month—and she is the only one of my 4 daughters that hasn’t had a baby yet. So this prompt doesn’t apply to me because it just wouldn’t be appropriate for grandma to ask the grandkids this question without parent approval. But I do have stuck in my mind and my heart one of my favorite “understanding where baby comes from moments” I had as a mom.

My oldest daughter was expecting her first child and my youngest daughter had “those” questions in her mind. My policy for “those” questions was to pull out two books I had. One was illustrations and the other was from “Life” that had photos of embryos and fetus’s documenting the journey to birth. I would show these pictures to my children and we would discuss how babies developed. Then we would turn to the book with the illustrations that showed the birthing process (without all the blood and gore). My then 8 year old daughter seemed to take it all in stride. She always was one to grasp onto facts rather quickly.

One afternoon when I picked her and my nephew up from school they were sitting in the back seat talking as eight year olds do—trying to “outbest” each other. They were trying to decide how far back they could remember. Nephew in an effort to win the contest claimed he could remember before he was born—when he was still in his mommy’s tummy. My daughter’s eyes bugged out and her jaw dropped. She exclaimed, “You can remember when you were as big as a thumb and looked like an alien?” I think she ceded the point and nephew won the debate. We have laughed and laughed over her description of a baby before birth.





 

 


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