ok, have had a bad couple of days with kids asking awkward questions, and i just want some feedback about how others have dealt with the same sort of questions.

yesterday, DH and I took our niece and nephew shopping with us. Nothing out of the ordinary there. have been taking provera three times a day, and forgot to take them before we left yesterday morning, so grabbed a couple to chuck in my bag. DH popped them out of the packet and i took them while i was driving - i didn't think my niece had noticed. after lunch i again had to take meds (metformin and the provera) - again, just took them while we were walking around, so not particulalry noticable. anyway, my little niece is 6 - and she asked me if i was very sick. i asked why and she said "people take tablets when they're sick, and you have had to take lots of tablets today - is there something wrong? are you sick?" - i was floored - i didn't know how to answer - i didn't want to tell her nothing was wrong - she'd then wonder why i was taking so many pills for no reason - and i didn't want to tell her it was about AC - that's too much for a kid to understand! Anyway - ended up telling her that there was something a little bit wrong in my tummy and i had to take the tablets to help it - thankfully it was enough! she's a very sensitive little girl that had lost a great uncle due to illness and a cousin in an accident in the past week as well as her dad being on the other side of the coutry for the past couple of weeks - so the last thing i wanted was for her to be worrying that there was something wrong!

Today - DH's nieces came out for lunch - things were pretty good until they were getting ready to leave then the younger niece (6) asked "aunty BG, do you have any children?" - i just looked at her - and her sister answered for me "of course they don't, or there would be a kids bedroom and there would be kids here." ok, question one averted. given another minute to think about things, questions two comes out - and again i was floored "don't you like kids?" - i answered that of course i liked kids - and asked if there was something i'd done to make her think i didn't - her answer "no, but if you like kids, you should just have kids - that's what married people do."

in isolation, these questions are pretty inconsequential, but they've been bugging me - and i was wondering if anyone else had encountered similar and how they'd reacted - with adults it's easy - if they know about the LTTTC/AC thing, they don't really ask - if they don't, i just tell them we're having lots of fun practicing, and it will happen when it happens - you can't really say that to a kid!