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How Was I Born?: A Child's Journey Through the Miracle of Birth

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I had wonderful memories of Lennart Nilsson's wondrous photography and book from the 1975 edition my mother got me at age 3. Now, as a mother and a doula I wanted to share it with my own daughter. I did not like the new edition at all. The old edition included more photographs of the developing fetus as well as actually explaining reproduction. It includes multi age nude group photos so children can see the differences between male and female, and there is a photograph of a crowning infant, rather than the sanitized and cleaned up newborn of this book. Overall, I found this book dumbed down and wanting. If you want your child to really understand what is happening inside your body, and how it started, I would recommend Nilsson's "A Story in Pictures" form 1975, which you can get used. It is realistic, everything is illustrated with photographs, not cartoons. The only exception to that is penetration, which is represented by a cross section illustration. It is overall a much better introduction to reproduction and childbirth for children than all of these patronizing, cartoony books that are so common nowadays.

The book has excelent photographs, from the baby growing in the mothers womb AND from a real family expecting a baby. There are two possible stories to read, one adapted for small children. It is great the way the child is introduced in the subject... at first she hears about Mary and his brother with his daily things and one page after the other, children are more and more involved in what is going to happen. Like real life. My two years daugther has lots of book about expecting a sister, but this is the one she likes most, and the one she feels more comfortable with the baby that is arriving.

Our oldest daughter was spellbound by this book that we bought while expecting our second child. Fantastic pictures and a great way to explain to a child what is happening with their mom.

Our oldest daughter was spellbound by this book that we bought while expecting our second child. Lovely pictures and a great way to explain what is happening with their mom to a child.

God bless the Swedes...no inhibitions here. My 7 year old boy was asking specific questions about child birth and this answered them, alright.

A great introduction to pregnancy for a child. Gets the words [of vital organs] and intercourse" on the table to build on for a later discussion. Agree could use a little more realism of the birth, but otherwise great!

This is the book--color pictures of the baby inside the womb and yet geared towards children so they can share in the experience even more.Wonderful book!