Funny ways little kids describe how babies are born

chicookie, BSN, RN · Jun 30, 2011

My niece freaked us out for a while. She is two and an only child. My older sister should not have any more kids. She wasn't ready for the first one and she still isn't ready for another. (sister = Problem child in the family. )

So anyway my niece would grab my stethoscope and put it up to our bellies and she would say: I can hear the baby! :eek: We freaked out. I had never shown her to do that and I have no idea how or where she learned to do that. My sister is not pregnant but my parents and I almost had a cow.

Off topic but still very cute!

While in nursing school, I helped my mother take care of a friends son. He is like my little brother. I would "practice" on him. Assessments/pulse/respirations/reflexes etc. He would watch nursing videos I found on the web with me as well. He is like a mini nurse now. His mom had a headache the other day, and he grabbed my bp cuff and said Let me take your inside pressure and remember to pee alot so it goes down. Simply adorable!

Jenni811, RN · Jun 30, 2011

My friends daughter told me that babies come from eating watermelon seeds and that is why you shouldn't eat them.

futurepractitioner1 · Jun 30, 2011

I can only speak from personal experience:

When I was 9 ys old, my mother pulled me aside to have "the talk" with me. I'll never forget everything about that moment. Unfortunately I processed what she had told me the way a 9 year-old boy does, and passed on how I understood what she was saying to all of my buddies the next day. This is how the conversation went:

"Now I need to talk to you about how babies are made"..."When a man and a woman are very much in love....they hug very close"----------that was it. This was the extent to which my mom was capable of dealing with what was her embarrassment about discussing this.

It was the next day in history class that I actually got the down and dirty details from my more informed buddies. I argued for about ten minutes with them, and had to go back to my mom that evening for "clarification" and verification purposes-- to which she of coorifice elaborated on "how close the man and the woman hug"....lol!.... I can vaguely remember the word "ewwwww" come out of my mouth.....will never forget that couple of days.

As far as how they were born............. as a kid I used to think that they were purchased at the toy store, since my sister used to buy her dolls there and treat them like her babies.

llg, PhD, RN · Jun 30, 2011

My father was a physician who delivered a lot of babies. So, I always knew where they came from. But I remember wondering how they got there in the first place.

My reasoning led me to believe God put them in there -- and that is why people got married by a preacher. Getting married in a church or by a preacher was a way of "registering" your marriage with God so that he would know to send you a baby.

So then I had to grapple with hearing that my minister and his wife "couldn't" have a baby ... so they adopted one. I wondered why God wouldn't give them a baby, but figured he wanted them to adopt Phillip, who needed a good home. But then ... why didn't he just put Philip in Mrs. X's belly to begin with? Hmmm....

Of course, I eventually noticed that people had babies who weren't married. And what about people who didn't go to church: they had babies. Did that mean that God made mistakes? Hmmmm.... Maybe God wasn't really pulling all the strings.

And I remember walking into my parents bedroom some mornings to find them naked in bed, cuddling, with goofy smiles on the faces -- like they had some secret they weren't going to share with me. When I would ask why Mom was in Dad's bed (They had twin beds.) ... they would laugh and say that Mom was cold and wanted to snuggle. I remember shrugging my shoulders ... saying they were so silly ... and "Why didn't Mom just put her nightgown on?" They seemed to think that was funny and would laugh at my attempts to reason things out.

DemonWings · Jun 30, 2011

I just asked my 5 year old, she says that babies get in your belly when you eat vegetables, No wonder she refuses to eat them:eek:

She is also under the impression that the dad gets pregnant with the boy babies and the mom gets pregnant with the girl babies.....if only:)

JDZ344 · Jul 1, 2011

I love the way kids reason things out!

caregiver1977 · Jul 1, 2011

My oldest son first thought that babies were purchased from our local grocery store. My sons now think that the doctor "takes out the baby" when Mom goes to the hospital. I will have to find some age appropriate materials SOON to help him understand how they get there in the first place because I don't think he has any idea.

JRP1120, RN · Jul 1, 2011

We have always tried to use the correct words for body parts to our children. As best as we could we explained to our four yr old where his baby sister was growing (uterus) and when asked, we told him in four-yr old terms where she would come out (lady parts). All was well and good until he had a playmate over after his sister had been born and he proceeded to blurt out in four-yr old fashion, "My sister was living in my Mommy's "oooterus" and came out of her "china!"" He was oh so proud! LOL Cracked us up-he's 17 now and we embarrass him with that story from time to time!

Twinmom06, ASN, APN · Jul 2, 2011

my daughter asked me if I "swallowed" her and her twin brother when they were in my belly (they've seen the u/s pics of themselves)!

brillohead, ADN, RN · Jul 6, 2011

I just asked my 5 year old, she says that babies get in your belly when you eat vegetables, No wonder she refuses to eat them:eek:
She is also under the impression that the dad gets pregnant with the boy babies and the mom gets pregnant with the girl babies.....if only:)

If that were the case, there would be 500 girl babies born for every one boy baby born! :lol2:

Hancock330 · Jul 6, 2011

I've known for a LONG time that if men had to have every other baby in each family, each family would have a MAXIMUM of 3 pregnancies: Hers, His, & Hers. :-D