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Where Do Babies Come From?

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This is a good book for a very beginning introduction to reproduction for young children. It will definitely need to be supplemented with more detailed text and diagrams, but it's an easy place to start when you don't want to go into too much detail for a first talk. It starts out with bees and plants and moves to ducks, cats, and then humans. It uses the terms "sperm" and "eggs" but does not use any male or female anatomical terms (other than "womb") or show any diagrams of anatomy except for a superimposed drawing of a baby inside the uterus of a fully clothed woman. There is also a photo of kittens being born. That's as specific as this book gets. A good place to start for a child of about 4.

I was looking for answers to that exact question from my 4 year old and the book covers how a baby starts with a sperm and an egg. It started out great explaining how a bee carries pollen on it's legs from flower to flower creating a seed, but then the explaination becomes vague as it gets into the animals and humans and how the male sperm and the female egg get together to create a baby. The problem is that it answers the question where, but leaves the child with the question of How. It's honest and written to a 4 year old level with terminology that works well. I think it will help you break into a discussion of how that sperm gets to the egg.

Where Do Babies Come From? is a good book for children who are curious about babies and where they come from. This book includes real pictures of animals and people. Where Do Babies Come From gives general explanation of where baby animals come from and transitions over to people. Recommended to parents to read with their children 5+ years of age.

This book was actually more detailed than what I was looking for for my four year old daughter, but it gave me good ideas on how to handle this touchy question. I will save this book for when she's older and I am ready to explain how the sperm gets to the egg, because after reading this book there's no doubt in my mind she will ask! I ended telling her about the eggs in mommy that later become babies, just like butterflies that start with an egg. I left out daddy's part of the job for much later date.

This book is a fantastic way of letting older children (toddler, pre-k) know that Mommy has a baby inside her and how it got there. FANTASTIC!