A classic discussion of labour and birth from the 6 year olds in one of my classes. (Don't ask me how they started talking about this. I certainly didn't bring it up.)
Emily: I'm not looking forward to when I have to have a baby. The doctors cut you open to get the baby out.
Me: They don't do that all the time.
Emily: Yes they do! They have to cut your stomach open to pull the baby out!
Bella: No they don't.
Me: That's right.
Bella: The baby comes out the woman's vagina.
Me: Um...
Bella: The doctors put their hands up the vagina to pull the baby out.
Me: (slightly rattled by this stage) You know a woman doesn't need a doctor to have a baby. She can have one all by herself. That's what we're designed to do. (Incredulous silence from the munchkins) Let's play a game!
When I was 6 I think I had some vague idea that a baby came out of a woman's belly button - a bit like toothpaste perhaps?
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6 years old isn't too young for YouTube, is it? Show them a few choice birth experiences from that and that will set them right (or leave them scarred for life!)
I remember as a little one asking my mum if giving birth was like doing a really hard poo...obviously I thought the baby came out of your butt...I didn't even know vaginas existed until I was 8 and I went to a sex education night at school with my parents.
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