Kids - Where do babies come from?

Emily: Mommy, where do babies come from?

Mommy: You need two things to make a baby: a sperm cell and an egg cell. Daddy makes the sperm cell inside his body and I make the egg cell inside my body. They don’t look so small here, but you would need a microscope to see them in real life. A microscope is sort of like a magnifying glass, only much stronger. When the sperm cell and the egg cell meet each other, they make a tiny baby that’s smaller than a grain of salt.

Emily: Wow… that’s small.

Mommy: It sure is, and the baby will grow inside a special place in my tummy called my uterus. And then, the baby will come out as your little baby brother or sister.

Emily: I can hardly wait! I hope it’s a sister.