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How Are Babies Made? (Flip Flaps)

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If you are considering purchasing this, some points to consider are: Cartoon-ish illustrations with talking eggs and sperm. Text refers to the uterus as a "womb", umbilical cord as a "tube" and navel as a "belly-button" without giving accurate labels. Also uses terminology such as "pees" and "poops." Describes the mother as being uncomfortable and "ready for the baby to come out" along with an illustration of an unhappy, 7-months-pregnant woman. Text also states the baby comes out of the "opening between the mother's legs" again, without giving proper name. Presumes presence of Doctor and Nurse at birth, and alludes to labor and birth process but does not illustrate or detail. To its credit, the book does a fair job of explaining role of sperm in determining gender, and that eggs come from the woman and sperm from the man. Does not address intercourse in any way, but shows fertilization with talking eggs/sperm. Illustrations are colorful and bright. Creative description of amniotic sac (without calling it such!) and comparison to a goldfish in a bag of water. Describes what baby might experience in utero. Shows breastfeeding mother but then shows bottles as well. Illustrations of fetal development are accompanied by "real-size" outlines. Not a bad choice if your interest is in explaining fetal development (consider Nilsson's "How Was I Born?" for photographs), but not a good choice if you want to discuss intercourse and birth. May be great for some families, but we prefer Joanna Cole's "How You Were Born" and "How Babies Are Made" by Andrew Andry.

My daughter is 5 and we are expecting our second child. She asked me lots of questions and I answered them, but at some point I wondered if I was giving her too much information. She know that some women have the baby vaginally and others have them through c-section. She knows that some women love being pregnant while others like her own mom hate being pregnant LOL She knows how the baby grows and the gender is determined, thanks to websites which show very realistic video about how baby grows. I thought this book might kinda give us a more visual illustration of the whole situation and it is the same every time we read it :)

She loved the book right away. Though it is true that this book does not call things by their proper names, but rarely do any books for young children. She was filling in the missing words :) When they talked about the tube that the baby gets food from, she said "I know what it's called, it's the umbilical cord". So in a way, it was just a nice addition to what we have already been doing. I think books are not a substitute to the parental input, thus I am satisfied with this book.

My 5 year old daughter started asking questions about how babies are made. I bought this book hoping it would answer the questions that were difficult for me to try and answer. I didn't really think this book did a very good job. There's too much going on on each page, that it was confusing. And it didn't really answer her questions very well.

I thought that this book provided very good insight to a question, that is often raised by children at a young age. This book answered many questions regarding where babies do come from. Most pre-school children think that they come from mommy's stomach. I would reccommend this book for early-childhood educators,as well as parents of young children who are expecting again.

I bought this book to help me explain my growing belly to my 2 year old son. Most of it is beyond him, but he enjoys the flaps that show different versions of the same scene. His favourites are (1) Mum with a big belly on the outside and flip for the baby inside, (2) happy baby and flip for crying baby, (3) awake baby and flip for sleeping baby. So he now points to my belly and says "baby". I don't know how I would have got the idea across to a 2 year old otherwise. A handy-dandy book to help prepare an only child for the twins that are coming soon!