Where Babies Come From

I know every parent MUST dread this question. At least the kind of parent that, like me, is old-fashioned in most senses and doesn't really feel comfortable discussing certain areas of their bodies with innocent five year-olds.

For the past five years, I've made sure that my daughter knows that the doctor opened up my belly on December 9th, 2000 when she started kicking so hard that I could no longer keep her in. She likes this story, so do I and I'm sticking to it (even though her birth was natural).

Yesterday, while at the mall, Eli had to go to the bathroom and so did I. So I put her in a stall, and I went into the one next to it. Being five, she doesn't really care that everyone can hear the conversation she began.

-Mom, where are you?
-In the stall next to yours.
-Are you doing number one?
-Yes.
-I'm doing both.
-Ok [thinking that is waaaayyy too much information]

By the sound of her, she is having a bit of a hard time doing "both". Next thing I know, she says to me,

-I sound like I'm trying to push out a baby, right?
-[cough, cough] What do you mean?
-Yeah, it sounds like when a mom is going to push out a baby.
-What do you mean? Do youu know where babies come from?
-Yes, Discovery Channel!

...as it turns out, my daughter still believes babies come out of their mom's bellies, except now she knows that the doctors don't just open and pull him out, moms actually have to work hard and push until the baby is out.

She saw this in Discovery Channel...

Whew! That means I still don't have to get to that conversation I refuse to have. Maybe she can help me out when Victoria is old enough to start asking those questions =)