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I love this momversation. Our son, who is now 15, asked this question when he was about 5 years old. I was pregnant with our daughter at the time. My husband used the 'seed' analogy, but got a little creative with it. Too creative for my comfort. We had done some planting recently so he likened it to that saying that the dad has the seed and the mom's tummy is like the ground. The dad puts the seed into the ground (the tummy) and it begins to grow. Now you have to understand that our son was/is very talkative and loves to be the one to tell others how things work. So I told my husband that the first phone call we get from an angry parent of a little girl who had been asked by our son if he could plant his seed in her...was his to take. Fortunately for him, we did not get that phone call. Thanks for all the fun, and frank, conversations. You all light up my day!

Wow - such relevant timing!!! I'm eight months pregnant with my third son, and by this time, my oldest (4 years) is big enough to ask questions. And wouldn't you know - he asked me "THAT" question just the other day. I JUST blogged about our ensuing conversation! http://www.fightingfrumpy.com/2009/07/baby-seeds.html

a few months ago we had the TALK. it all started at the dinner with my 7 yro, who out of the blue, asked about sex. It was PERFECT for everyone..esp., my 10 yro as Pearl asked crazy ?s, like when she turned to her dad and asked ( who was beat red) how in the world he got his penis inside moms vagina. I think the younger the better because it all ends up being fun with all the crazy questions that come up ( and let me tell you they were crazy! and embarressing!)

I had my 2nd child when my first was 4. He was very curious about how the baby got in mommy's belly. So....I told him that mommy went to the doctor, and he gave her some "baby seeds", and that everytime I drank water, I was actually watering the baby seed....so it would grow. I told that same story to all my children. They never questioned it. But I was honest about childbirth, without details.

I told my children since they were very young - like my mother did - I don't have an issue with it so it looks like they are not overly concerned about it. I think sometimes we forget that children sense when parents are uncomfortable and more than words they pick up on our level of comfort or discomfort Discovering how babies come to this world is a bit shocking no matter how we tell them, and really if you really think about it isn't is amazing and shocking even for us? Cheers, Anita www.ovolina.com

I'll never forget how my mother answered this. I was about... Oh, I dunno. Maybe four, that's when my sister was born... Mom was folding laundry and I came in and asked her how babies were made. She stopped, looked at me and said "Well, Mandi... A mommy takes a part... And then a daddy takes a part... And then it makes a baby." This scarred me for several years, because I knew what both sets of genitals looked like and my mind created an image of a piece of a penis and a piece of a vagina breaking off and coming together and then flying down my mother's throat while they were sleeping.

Manic Mommy, I think that is one of the funniest things I have read. Ever. I was trying to act it out for Phil in the next room and couldn't get through five words without cracking up. I think I'll just print it out and hand it to my ten year old. GENIUS.

This is so timely for me. Firstly, Heather, the bit about buying a baby on eBay was very funny to me. I hope you leave good feedback for that transaction. (And what do you think WOULD be a "good price"?) My son asked me when he was very young too, and I wasn't prepared. I distracted him and said we'd ask his father. Then, later, I think I said something about--- oh no! That's right. He didn't ask me how BABIES were made, he actually asked me what SEX was. THAT is why I was flummoxed. Ah, it's all coming back to me. Ya, so I asked him what he thought it was and he said, "Like, a food or a drink?" And he was kind of right! Anyway, he was only about 5. He kept reading the word everywhere and hearing the word "sexy" on tv. So, just this week my 7 year old asked me how babies were made. And she kept peppering me with more and more questions. So, I told her basically everything. I didn't use the word "ejaculate" but I explained how the parts fit together and the fallopian tubes and ovaries and menstrual fluid that provides a home for the growing baby to embed in and periods when the baby doesn't get made and even WHY we do this at all. I said, "You know how it feels nice when I tickle your back or massage your shoulder? Well, when you get older, your private parts get more sensitive and it feels nice like that only better. And moms and dads kiss and hug and touch each other and it feels really nice and then it feels better and better until this funny thing happens that's really hard to describe and then the sperm cells come out and they go on their journey." Somehow, this all led into the whole plan of salvation and she even asked me if anyone from Earth has ever visited other Universes. She asked how it ALL began and what the point of it all was and I as honest and said, "That's the one question I'VE been hung up on since I was seven, too. What's the point of it all?" All in all we talked for an hour and a half. I rocked that conversation. It was one of my proudest mom moments. I always thought it would be hard to have sex talks but this is my second one and I'm so good at it that people should HIRE me.