I was very honest with my girls and tried to explain in simplistic but still anatomically accurate terms. They shower a lot with their dad so we talked about how boys and girls look different, and that's so girls can have babies etc.

The mother of girls in each of my kids' classes was due after me, but having a scheduled c-section which really upst the apple cart because why can't we all know what day our baby is coming?? I explained that some mummies need to have an operation so the dr can take the baby out of her tummy, that sometimes mummies know its going to happen like their friends' mum but that most of the time we just have to wait (and wait and wait!) until the baby's ready to come and meet us.