We're always en route to the mundane when they ask me these questions.
Where do babies come from?
I mean how do they get out of the mom's belly?
I've skirted this particular question before, with talk of "Sometimes the doctors make a cut in the mommy's belly and they take the baby out that way."
But this time, they were demanding more.
What happens the other times? Do they pee or poop the baby out?
I explained that babies were neither peed nor pooped. That babies come out of a woman's vagina.
Silence from the back of the car. And then. Gus.
"But how does something as BIG as a BABY get out something as SMALL as a ..."
Me: Yeah.
<moment of silence>
Gus: That is just WRONG.
Me: Tell me about it.
Where do babies come from?
I mean how do they get out of the mom's belly?
I've skirted this particular question before, with talk of "Sometimes the doctors make a cut in the mommy's belly and they take the baby out that way."
But this time, they were demanding more.
What happens the other times? Do they pee or poop the baby out?
I explained that babies were neither peed nor pooped. That babies come out of a woman's vagina.
Silence from the back of the car. And then. Gus.
"But how does something as BIG as a BABY get out something as SMALL as a ..."
Me: Yeah.
<moment of silence>
Gus: That is just WRONG.
Me: Tell me about it.
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