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JanEliz
janeliz

^For serious, this is important to explain to kids. As a child I knew the baby was in the abdomen but thought that getting it out required some horrible surgery not unlike how my pb&j sandwiches got cut into quarters ...which didn't help my intense fear of pregnant women as a kid. The real answer would have been

Only slightly related. One time when my brother was about that age, we were at some kind of Chuck E Cheese type thing when my brother comes running and says, "DAD. Some kid hit me in the balls." My dad's like...uhhh? And he continues, "yeah, I was just in the ball pit and he HIT ME."

I had to break bad on my mother for doing this. She refused to use the proper term with her DOCTOR who was going to OPERATE on her. When she realized she would have to say "vagina", it came out like this:

Your MIL deserves all the awards.

My Mother in Law tells one of my all-time favourite stories about this kind of thing: