Hailie has been waiting for the arrival of her baby cousin (whom she refers to as Baby Jaclyn), and has been asking a lot of questions about babies. She received a book for her birthday about the human body, and the first few pages are about babies. She was very, very interested in these pages, and asked questions out-of-the-blue on a daily basis.
We were at Grandma and Grandpa’s house and a pregnant cousin was over for a visit. Hailie asks her, “You got a baby in there?” while touching her belly. Tammy replied “Yes…” and Hailie says “Is it floating in the water?” while making a wiggly action with her body. Tammy looks surprised and looks over at me. I replied ‘She has a book.” Hailie then asks says “It’s gonna come out” while making a motion in the direction that baby is going to come out.
A couple of weeks later she had more questions after her cousin Logan was born. She wanted to know how the baby came out, and again we looked at the book. I told her that the Mommy pushes the baby out, and sometimes the doctor has to pull the baby out instead. She now talks about how she has a baby in her tummy that she is going to push out, and how the Dr pulled her out of Mommy’s tummy. It makes for nice dinner converasation.
