Monday, August 27, 2007

205: not in front of grandma!

baby bliss had a question about conception the other day y'all.

grandma was riding with us so i'm guessing b.b. thought she should moderate her choice of words.

i think b.b. was asking if it was possible for a woman to give birth to a set of triplets and a set of twins when giving birth to five babies at once.

the other part of the question was how a woman got pregnant with five (or more) babies at once. she wanted to know if the same sperm did it, if there was a separate sperm for each egg, or some other combination of workings.

but she didn't want to say the word "sperm" in front of my grandma so she said "the creamy white stuff".

well i didn't like the way that sounded and i tried to get her to pipe down until after we dropped grandma off. but wouldn't y'all know it, grandma heard her too and asked baby bliss what creamy white stuff was she talking about.

at that point baby bliss dissolved into a mess of convulsive giggles and grandma saw fit to interject her medical expertise about the subject of multiple births.

which means we'll have to do our own research some time this school year to undo grandma's good intentions.

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