Where DO babies come from?

How do I answer this question? As a child you are, at some point, taught that babies are made when an egg and sperm come together and that the baby grows inside its mommy. When it is time to come out the momma pushes the baby out of her vagina. So what do you do when that isn't true? You can't tell your kid that babies come from gaping holes created by stangers to remove babies quickly, efficiently and sterilely.

So what does one say? Most babies come out through the vagina? But you didn't? Some mommas are lucky and some aren't. Sometimes doctors need to help mommas get their babies out and then they are miserable for months and months and can never forgive themselves? How do you explain this to a child when you can't even explain it to yourself? I have to work on this because I know someday my kids will ask and I will need to know what to say. I need to know what to say to myself about it now.

How do you get over the fundamental truth of something being proven wrong? How do you change thousands of years of history to accomodate your crappy experience?

More another time.