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 - TWO THUMBS UP. . . . . . Way Up. This book was helpful to me as well as my daughter. We are expecting #2 in May. My daughter is 6. She has lots of questions. This answered her questions and gave me some good ideas to helo her feel involved with the baby. Rating: - We love this book!I love this book for helping explain to my children about how the baby got in mommy's tummy and how it will be coming out. Some reviewers have complained about the book being too in depth and having too many details (some call it 'sex education'), but what I do is only read the sentences that I want to read and leave out the others. My son was only 2 when I started reading the book to him this way. If you read it through yourself first, you can get really good at this and tailer it to your child's level of understanding and the amount of knowledge that you want him/her to have about the subject. Now that I am pregnant again, and my son is 4, I will read it to him and include a few more details that I think he is ready for. It talks about such good topics like that the baby is in the uterus where it stays nice & warm, how the baby gets food, why mommy isn't feeling well sometimes, and that mommy will go to the hospital so that the doctors can help the baby come out. It includes pictures (illustrations) of the baby in the tummy which are of particular interest to young kids. It really is an excellent book if you use it this way. Rating:  - Leah's favorite book in my 8-9th month of prego-hoodThis book was very helpful explaining to our 2 1/2 year old daughter what was happening and why my belly was getting larger. Both my husband and I are in the medical field and were happy that the language in the book uses real terms "uterus/womb". My daughter pulled this book from her book shelf more times in the last two months of my pregnancy then Elmo! Leah would say, "mommy you utitis is big!" Rating:  - WARNING This book is a little too detailed unless you want your young child to learn about the birds and the bees and how babies are born. I'm all for sex education, but not for a 4-8 year old child. Rating:  - Excellent book, but not appropriate for toddlersThis book is best for age 4 and up, or whatever age at which you are ready to address "how babies are made." I quote from the book, "Mommies have one piece, called an ovum. Daddies have the other piece, called sperm. When a mommy and daddy want to make a baby, the daddy puts his sperm inside the mommy." We returned this book because neither my husband nor myself wanted to address that with our two-year-old.
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