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.

Kids - Where do babies come from?

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Review Date: 11/12/2021

Reviewed By: John D. Jacobson, MD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, Brenda Conaway, Editorial Director, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.

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