• Question: how are babies made? i get so many different stories said to me i dunno which is which:s xx

    Asked by cascada to Ben, Heather, Louisa on 24 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Louisa Chard

      Louisa Chard answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      Well, lets just say that the stork story is a myth.

    • Photo: Ben Still

      Ben Still answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      Different stories? There is only one natural way, that is sex.

      Sperm, created inside a mans testes, carry half of the genetic information required for life. After sex the sperm travel up the fallopian tubes in a woman to meet an egg, which contains the other half of genetic information required for life. The sperm bores its way inside the egg where the two halves of genetic information meet to create a complete cell.

      The cell then begin to split in 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 … creating new cells needed to construct a baby. This ball of cells come to rest in the Uterus and the cell multiplication continues, creating every feature and organ of the unborn baby. All going well, 9 months later a healthy baby is born.

    • Photo: Heather McKee

      Heather McKee answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      Woah thats a question and a half!!For the interest of clarity id check out the link below its a site created by public health doctors and nurses so is a great reliable source of information that clearly explains it all! The pictures are hilarious aswell!
      http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=289&id=1613

      Often people indulged the myth (Walt Disney’s 4th classic Dumbo, the stork (more specifically “Mr. Stork”) delivers babies to their animal mothers) that Storks bring the babies premade to the bearer-however this myth had been created in Victorian times where people would avoid the actual explaination(see above link ;))This habit was derived from the once popular superstition that storks were the harbingers of happiness and prosperity, and possibly from the habit of some storks of nesting atop chimneys, down which the new baby could be imagined as entering the house.

      To be fair you did the right thing by looking to science for answers as hearsay about these things can lead to all sorts of crazy assumtions about these things (as you can see by the stork example!!) mental!!

      xx

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