Teaching Your Kids how a baby grows with Wonderfully Made

Do you ever find a book and wish it had been published a few years ago?  I feel that way when I found Wonderfully Made* by Danika Cooley.  It’s a book to teach your kids about pregnancy, and for them to see how the baby grows inside a mother’s womb.

{This post contains affiliate links marked with a *.  For more information read my disclosure page, my super awesome friend Danika gave me a copy of her book so I didn’t have to buy it, but you’ll see why I think it’s so wonderful}

Four years ago my sister-in-law was pregnant, and my kids had all sorts of questions of what was happening, how was the baby growing inside of her, and how did the baby get there?

I found a wonderful book that addressed many of those issues, but it didn’t address their big concern, how was the baby growing?  I mean how did the baby get from something smaller than we can see without a microscope to 8 pounds 10 ounces?

 

Enter Wonderfully Made

Wonderfully Made answers all of the questions your kids have.  It goes through and explains how the baby got in the mommy’s womb (in a way you can safely share with a child who isn’t ready to learn specific details about “the s-word”, as my daughter calls it).  If I’d had this book four years ago I would have saved myself a lot of repeated questions, as I could have said, “Let’s pull out the book.”

Then it goes through week by week and shows how the baby changes and grows.  All the while it shares a verse from the Bible referencing how God made you special.

This is how I’m going to use Wonderfully made now

As I mentioned earlier, I’m pondering Wonderfully Made and how to share this idea with my daughter (I’ve added another couple of resources I just found that are perfect for pre-teens).  Young girls especially struggle with image issues, and thinking “fill in the blank body part is ugly.”  I want my daughter to know she is wonderfully made, and God made her to look just the way HE imagined.  She is no accident.  That is a pretty special message, and you can see that all throughout the book.

 

Random side note that is semi-related

As I was looking at the pictures in Wonderfully Made* I was randomly reminded of the Jump Start comics that ran when I was pregnant with the boys, and so I had to dig up their baby book to find it.  Then I had to check Princess’ baby book to see if the Baby Blues story line I remember from when I was pregnant with her was in there, it was not, and I was sad.

All that to say, I’ll be recommending this book to any Mom who is pregnant and already has a kid or two to explain what’s going on with their new brother or sister.  Oh, and go check out Danika’s Facebook page, it’s one of my favorites on there, I’m constantly reading the articles she shares.