Another Awkward Question!
So...what is up with my kids and their inquisitiveness lately? This is the second time this week!
Today, while we were driving home from town, Noah asked me in his cute little voice, "Mommy, does the baby comes out your moufff?"
I was like, "What?"
He said, "Where does the baby come out fwom?"
I was like..."Ooooohhhh, he's talking about birth"....
I said, "No, it doesn't come from your mouth." LOL!
"where does it come fwom den?"
I couldn't help but understand his curiosity....It has to be SO confusing for a little child to figure that one out!
I said..."Well, it's hard to explain." I paused...."Um...it's just sort of like...when you go to the restroom? But just a little different." LOL I don't want to lie to him and didn't know what else to say!
Bonnie says, "Oh! Except the baby will come out of your belly button?"
I said, "Um....yeah...sure... something like that." (shifting uncomfortably in my seat) Fortunately, that ended the conversation!
Now...how do I get the questions to stop! Aahhhhh! I need to learn how to change the subject. haha
When I was little and my mom was pregnant with my sister, I thought at the time that babies DID come out of your belly button. In fact, when she came back from the hospital, I remember lifting up her shirt so I could see the "bandaids on her tummy"...but was surprised to find that her belly button was still in tact. LOL
Today, while we were driving home from town, Noah asked me in his cute little voice, "Mommy, does the baby comes out your moufff?"
I was like, "What?"
He said, "Where does the baby come out fwom?"
I was like..."Ooooohhhh, he's talking about birth"....
I said, "No, it doesn't come from your mouth." LOL!
"where does it come fwom den?"
I couldn't help but understand his curiosity....It has to be SO confusing for a little child to figure that one out!
I said..."Well, it's hard to explain." I paused...."Um...it's just sort of like...when you go to the restroom? But just a little different." LOL I don't want to lie to him and didn't know what else to say!
Bonnie says, "Oh! Except the baby will come out of your belly button?"
I said, "Um....yeah...sure... something like that." (shifting uncomfortably in my seat) Fortunately, that ended the conversation!
Now...how do I get the questions to stop! Aahhhhh! I need to learn how to change the subject. haha
When I was little and my mom was pregnant with my sister, I thought at the time that babies DID come out of your belly button. In fact, when she came back from the hospital, I remember lifting up her shirt so I could see the "bandaids on her tummy"...but was surprised to find that her belly button was still in tact. LOL
Posted by Bethany at 8/25/2009 2:37 PM 
Categories: my kids and the cute things they say and do, family
Categories: my kids and the cute things they say and do, family
I am expecting #3 in the next two weeks or so and I told my Little ones (2 and 4) that God put a door on mommy and that it is shut right now, but when it is time He will open it up. That seemed to satisfy them fairly well.
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We have read some books with our girls. There is a series you read at age appropriate times. Here is the latest one we read...it's very detailed but it stopped all the questions. lol http://www.christianbook.com/gods-design-series-book-story-revised/stan-jones/9781600060137/pd/060137?item_code=WW&netp_id=454339&event=ESRCN&view=covers
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Maybe we are just different in CA, but everyone I knows out here shares anatomical words for body parts. We tell a boy the correct medical term for his private parts, for example. So, when preggo with one of the kiddos (I think #3 way back when as I now have 7) we just shared that God gave girlies a place from which to go pee pee and poo poo and also a place for the baby to come out (we told them what each was called). My kids were all teens before they equated that baby-escape-hole with anything sexual. They just thought that's where babies comes out. Never was a big deal, and I always felt good that I wasn't being all uncomfortable with my kiddos & I was not telling them untruths either (belly button?) - Not trying to judge - just sharing....
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LOL! I always answered mine with "enough" to end the conversation until later. I have 5 kids so the little guys saw pads and questioned that. I told them that God prepared women each month to be able to have a baby. I said that if a lady did not have a baby in her God cleaned it out once a month to keep her body clean and prepared and she would bleed so she needed to wear a pad.
We were in the car and my 7 year old said that my daughter said she and her older sister could be pregnant and the baby be the size of a pea. I said that, yes, babies were very small like a pea when first growing. Then I told my daughter that she shouldn't tell people that because the only way to get pregnant was to have se# and she didn't want people thinking that of her. All the boys started yelling, "EW!!!" and I said nothing was wrong with se#, that God made it for a man and a woman as something to enjoy. I said that it was bad or wrong when it was outside of marriage. Then my 7 year old said," YOU and Dad had sex!!!!" My 13 year old got whiplash pretending to look out the window so fast.
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We had this question come up when my daughter was about 4. We had watched a show like Maternity Ward but they were all c-sections...then she asked how she was born! Uh oh! LOL So, my dh says "Naturally". she took his answer. Then, later when he had gone out of town to go back to work (it was the norm back then) she asked me. I got all excited and tried his answer. Nope. didn't work for me! Not fair! I finally had to tell her. I just told her it comes out of a place by your bottom...maybe that would work for you?
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Bethany, if you're like, me and I think you are, your stories are for you and your family and this blog a way to record memories about the everyday that we tend to forget all too easy as life flies by. If others come along and enjoy your musing, great! But I'll never understand why people feel the need to state their own opinions - to the point of harassment at times - about your personal life that you are willing to share with whoever and with the most innocent of motives. Don't feel you have to justify ANYTHING. You are a great mom. You've made your life about serving God and others. We see that and you especially don't need any grief at this season of you life. Please know we got it and understand. Hugs!
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I think you answered just fine Bethany for petes sake he is only 4 I would not be discussing those things in detail right now! Bonnie was just being sweet and helping you out that is too precious!! Oh I love how innocent children are. I totally agree with Kim it is amazing how people will jump to judgement so fast ... so sad! You are doing just fine!!!!!!! love ya
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Kim,
I think people were just offering their own experiences with the intention to help. Why so aggressive? Bethany is always so lovely in receiving feedback, it's clear that one of her goals is to actually interact with her readers, not just record memories. Your reaction seems a little extreme to me.
Bethany, as always you seem to carry your kids with such love. I'm so glad you're having another one to love. !!!
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I don't remember what my Mom told me when I was a kid, but I thought for a while that you -er- pooped the baby out! She also told me when I asked where my brother came from (while she was pregnant) that babies were a "gift from God". I thought that was a very sweet way of explaining to a small child.
I wonder if a picture that shows the inside of the body would be a good tool for showing little children how babies get out?
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