And Abraham Went Out . . .

Where do babies come from?

At lunch today we were talking about our friends who will be coming for a visit this summer. This family has four children but only the baby will be able to come with mom and dad. Basil randomly asks "Where do we get babies anyway?"

I am not one to get nervous with questions like these. It's just a question. He could have just as easily asked "Why is the sky blue?" Fortunately I know more about this question than most of his other questions.

So I answer "Well, a mom and dad hug in a very special way. When they hug in this way, something like a seed (called "sperm") finds its way into the mom and meets up with something called an egg. When the seed (the sperm) and the egg meet up, they join to make a baby.

He says "Huh. So they just hug and that's it?"

I say "Yeah, pretty much but its a special hug that you have never heard of before. Let's find a youtube video on it."  Our frequent answer to such questions. We love youtube.

So we watch this video. It's pretty technical for all of us, so we talk it through.

Basil says "wow" several times during the video. At the end he says "Is there a part two?"

Oh, you gotta love the natural thirst for knowledge! We search around a bit. The same producer doesn't seem to have made continuing videos on the same topic. So we settle on these ones by BabyCenter. They show fetal development week by week.

Fun times. I write down 30 minutes in my planner under science/human development.

Saweet!