how you explain to 4 years old asked about how / where the baby come from ???

I have a 2yr old and a 10 month old and am 8 weeks pregnant with the next one. Jenniffer who is 2 has already asked for a brother and I asked her where babies come from and she told me "Mommy's tummy" So I told her that the baby starts in mommy's tummy and then daddy has to rub on mommy's tummy alot and then the baby starts growing. It may not help you but it worked for her. I had to go to the er and ended up with ultrasound pics the other night and showed Jenniffer and she pointed at the baby and told me "baby Boy". She is convinced it is going to be a boy this time lol.

well they are too small to understand some techincal reality of life .i think small story of fairy tale can help . kids are inncocent at that age ..lets not take away there innocence

My daughter is 21 now, but she did start asking questions by middle school. I took the same approach as Angelika1972 did, in wanting to give the right information at the right time. It pleased me to no end that she even signed an abstinence contract when she got older. It was important for me to teach her thru discussion, but it's much better to let them start the discussion with their questions and work from there. As they get older, it's important to keep the lines of communication open. On a more comical note, I'm the oldest of 3 girls, and I have 2 sisters that were born a year apart to the day. Yes, they share the same birthday. I was 4 1/2 by the time my youngest sister was born, but the information my parents gave me when I asked, really messed up my young brain for a while after that, lol. Imagine what a child thinks when their siblings are born a year apart like mine were. A child can understand that it takes 9 months for a baby to get here. When there are two babies, that should be 18 months, right? For the longest time, I thought my little sister must have still been in there (half baked) when the middle sister came out. ROFLOL

I have noticed that they have books out about this. what i did is sugar coat it a little dont use the actual terms of the body part yet. Just telll them the baby grows in mommies tummy and daddy has a seeed that helps make the baby grow inside mommie.

Hi Apakabar, I think I was about 4 or 5 when I asked my mother where babies come from. My mom was a single parent raising me and my older brother, so she took it upon herself to answer these types of questions. I do remember that she gave me the clinical explanation about where babies come from. She said that a man and woman make love, she explained about each gender's body parts and told me the clinical names of each part. She said that sperm comes from the man(dad) and fertilizes the egg in the woman (mommy). The baby grows in the mommy's tummy and then about 9 months later the baby is born. With all of the clinical words my mom used, I didn't really push and ask more questions. I have a 1 year old daughter and plan to give her the same type of explanation when the time arises. Good luck!! GACathyMac

In my experience this is a good time to start introducing God to children. We know the actual act of how the baby arrived is too much for a 4 year old to comprehend explaining to them that ultimately the baby came from God in heaven and he chose me as a mother to take care of the baby while hear on earth. Remember, at this age children still live in a fairytale world so they will go with this explanation for awhile until they turn 7 or 8 and they may be when you have to spill the beans!