funny story, it happened a couple of weeks ago. McKay was asking question about how babies get out of their mommy's tummys. I gave the same answer that I've given my other kids at this age. It's something like, "Well, when the baby is big enough to come out of the mommy's tummy, the mommy goes to the hospital and the doctor takes the baby out." this answer would usually be followed by an, "oh" then some other random question or comment like, "Can I have a snack?" and we would move on. Not with McKay, he had follow up question which he wanted specific answers to, starting with, "Does the doctor cut the mommy's tummy open?" I said sometimes the doctor has to cut the mommy's tummy open. Then he asked, "Did the doctor have to cut your yummy open to get me out of it?" I said "nope, he didn't." hoping that would be the end, but of course it wasn't. He asked more questions and I gave more answers, truthful but as age appropriate as possible. Then Bryce and Abby came into the room and McKay took the opportunity to share with them, in detail, his new found knowledge. At some point it was mentioned that sometimes the baby has to be cut out of the mom's stomach. Then someone chimed in that the baby isn't actually in the moms stomach. So I explained that the baby is in a part of the mom's body called the uterus which is by her stomach. Abby who had not been enjoying any part of this conversation finally spoke up. With her eyes stuck in half-roll she said in her most mono-tone, you've-got-to-be-kidding-me, voice, "Could you please never say the word u-terus again? It's disgusting."
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So, speaking of Uterus'. Every time I hear that word I think of the video we watched in probably 5th grade about our "changing bodies". There is a scene in the video where the parent, I hope it was a mom, but for some reason I think it might have been the dad, which only makes it more disturbing, any way, the parent was making pancakes and the girl asks a question about her body or something and the parent starts giving an explanation while making an illustration with the pancake batter, including ovaries and fallopian tubes and of course a uterus. I remember thinking that the pancake looked more like a bull with long horns, but what ever. Why would a loving parent want to ruin the joy of eating pancakes for their child by doing something like that. Crazy people.
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So, speaking of Uterus'. Every time I hear that word I think of the video we watched in probably 5th grade about our "changing bodies". There is a scene in the video where the parent, I hope it was a mom, but for some reason I think it might have been the dad, which only makes it more disturbing, any way, the parent was making pancakes and the girl asks a question about her body or something and the parent starts giving an explanation while making an illustration with the pancake batter, including ovaries and fallopian tubes and of course a uterus. I remember thinking that the pancake looked more like a bull with long horns, but what ever. Why would a loving parent want to ruin the joy of eating pancakes for their child by doing something like that. Crazy people.
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So it seems I am not the only one who the pancake uterus made an impression on. I thought I would try googling "pancake uterus" and see if I could find the video. I didn't find the video but I did find a few references to the video and according to them the the girl was at a sleepover and it was the friend's mom who made the pancake uterus. One of the references said that after the anatomy lesson the dad ate the uterus, I mean pancake. I don't remember that part, but ewww.
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Ok, so who thought a pancake uterus would be a good way to teach reproduction? Although, now that I say it, I guess it made an impression. I can't even make a mickey mouse head for my kids, let alone a full scale anatomy lesson!
Remeber the video liek it was yesterday. I think it was called Julie's Story. I can picture all of us in the back of the library horrified.
Melisa
Hahaha! That is hilarious! Sometimes I am grateful for my little c-section scar. It makes answering questions VERY easy! However, I think by the time my kids realize there is ANOTHER more natural way, they will be very disturbed!! :)
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