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Where do babies come from?

When your five-year-old asks this embarrassing question, the answer is not to avoid it. JOHN MUTURI gives you tips on how you can broach this subject tactfully.

I still recall when a few months before our daughter was born, my five-year-old niece who we lived with innocently asked my wife: "how does a baby get out of mummy’s tummy and how does it get in there?

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