Making a Baby: An Inclusive Guide to How Every Family Begins

"To make a baby you need one sperm, one egg, and one womb. but every family starts in its own special way. You and your family are amazing, just how you are!"

In this honest, accessible illustrated guide to how babies are made, young readers can find out exactly what is needed to grow a baby, from introducing the basic building blocks of life such as sperm and eggs, to explaining the different ways that these building blocks can be put together to create a family.

Working closely with a leading national LGBT organisation, this inclusive guide to Making a Baby covers sex, sperm and egg donation, IUI, IVF, surrogacy and adoption, as well as explaining how a baby grows in the womb and about different kinds of births.

Written in gentle and accessible language that can be shared with younger children or read alone by confident readers, we hope this book and its clear illustrations will provide the stepping stone for every parent to have an open conversation with their child about how babies are made, and their family began. 

  Product info

Publisher: ‎ Dial Books
Date: June 22, 2021
Language: ‎ English
Hardcover: ‎ 32 pages
ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0593324851
Reading age: ‎ 5

  Full Description

This inclusive guide to how every family begins is an honest, cheerful tool for conversations between parents and their young ones.

To make a baby you need one egg, one sperm, and one womb. But every family starts in its own special way. This book answers the "Where did I come from?" question no matter who the reader is and how their life began. From all different kinds of conception through pregnancy to the birth itself, this candid and cozy guide is just right for the first conversations that parents will have with their children about how babies are made.

  Content Warnings

Infertility
Medical procedures
Miscarriage
Nudity (drawings of genitalia)
Sexual content (one page discusses reproductive sex with a drawing of what is happening internally