How does baby get into mommy's tummy?

“Mama, how did I get in your tummy?” my li’l one questions me showing me the video clip of my pregnancy days I’ve in my phone. “Let me see,” is all I can mutter feeling my cheeks burning under the gaze of my in-laws sitting beside me. Had it been just me and my kids I would have explained in detail, wait a second! How does one explain to three years old about babies and how they end up in their mommy’s tummy?
I know my li’l one has reached the WHY STAGE and she is bound to have a lot of queries but I wasn’t prepared for this particular question; especially not at dinner time when everybody in the family is gathered together.
“God plants seed in mommy’s tummy,” my all-knowing ten years old Niece comes to my rescue. She always has answer for every query and all her responses revolve around God, saints and ghosts. I scold her for bringing in Gods and ghosts in our conversation most of the times. But I was happy that she at least had that ready answer to fill the awkward silence I offered to my li’l one.
“Akhai, it’s not God!” an angry retort from my elder daughter leaves me dumb founded. I turn my attention to the bukhari as if hoping the crackling fire to help me provide me a reasonable response. I truly wish they would forget the talk or at least go to another movie clip. I have a lot of other interesting movie clips they can watch rather than the one they are stuck on.
“Mama eats a lot of food and her tummy gets bloated, “my elder daughter gives her reasoning. She looks at me to seek my approval and not finding any hint of it in my abashed face, she meekly adds,”…and out comes baby!”
But my li’l one doesn’t buy her elder sisters wise cracks. She further probes,” mam…ma…” I pull her closer and snatch the phone and show her the movie clip of her sister singing hindi songs. “Ana gi chuma yekcha gothcho na,” I add a forced laughter to get my li’l one’s attention.” ong ni ong ni,” she adds and quickly gets engrossed in it.
Baby and how they get into the tummy is forgotten. Thank God for giving kids short attention span.