Consider yourself hugged...
I think it is easier being a female to have started talking to my children and answering their questions whenever they may have followed my into the bathroom, for whatever reason. I am one who has no shame of my body or its natural processes, so it has been easier to answer their questions as they grow.
Just take your time and go with the flow. They do want and need to know...
Heck, I'm 49, my mother still hasn't told me anything...
We did have the little movie and pamphlet in grade school, thank goodness. But I do think most children already have some idea before then, either the right stuff or the wrong stuff according to where they may find it and as long as we as parents take the foremost active role in explaining different things to them as they grow it is easier for us and much better for the child.
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Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
~E.H. Chapin
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