Mommy, Was Your Tummy Big?

By Carolina Nadel

A mother elephant explains her use of donor eggs to her child. With charming illustrations and simple words, "Mommy, was your tummy big?"can help parents who used in vitro fertilization and donor eggs... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979276101
• ISBN13: 9780979276101
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Mookind Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A great book even aside from being about egg donation

My kids love this book. It is in their top five list of books they request before bed along with "The Gas We Pass, the Story of Farts," and "Curious George." It really does a great job of introducing the concept of egg donation in a non-technical way to very young kids. My kids are 2 and 4, and they LOVE it.

Excellent Resource!

As a former DE patient/now mother, and a therapist specializing in infertility, I have been counseling clients thinking about donor egg, doing it, or having done it for nearly 10 years. Disclosure is one of the main issues parents grapple with. It can be daunting thinking of how & when to tell. Most critical is "how do I tell my child!?" Finally we have an answer! Carolina Nadel has given us an excellent tool. Her book will help all tounge tied DE parents begin a dialogue with their child. The pictures are positive and bright. They encourage interaction with your child. The text is simple, elegant and honest. It also encourages discussion and you can begin to add the specifics of your story to Ms. Nadel's story as you go. This book is not bogged down with too much information, nor is it dumbed down. You can read to a newborn, toddler and grade school child. It is a fantastic resource and I encourage all DE parents to get it and begin their own child's story with the help of Ms. Nadels's book. My 2 year old loves it! My older children read it to me and each other. They ask about the shots, the sad elephants and the BIG smile in the end! Carolina, THANK YOU!

A rare find

I've purchased several picture books that aim to introduce the concept of donor egg to young children, but this is the only book that I'm satisfied with. Unlike the others, this book strikes an excellent balance: it doesn't condescend and dumb down the process of egg donation, yet it also avoids technical terms that aren't age-appropriate and only serve to confuse young children. The dialogue between the mother and child elephants is realistic, and it's also simple enough to serve as a branching-off point for readers - other books don't allow for this opportunity. The illustrations are bright, cheerful, and age-appropriate without being cutesy. Finally, a picture book that presents egg donation in a non-threatening, straightforward, gentle, non-didactic, even fun way.

Fantastic book to explain family building

The book is great. It's very simple and the pictures are gorgeous. I think even more telling is the fact that my children immediately asked me to start over from the beginning at the end of the first reading and they laughed hysterically at the line "did you eat the egg." There are so few books out there that explain donor gametes in a way that is accessible to children so I am grateful to Nadel for writing this book. It also comes in a donor insemination version called Daddy, Was Mommy's Tummy Big? You can read the book online by going to Carolina Nadel's website and clicking "next" after each page (look to the right of the picture).

A wonderful book

A friend had a child through donor egg, and I got this book to gently introduce my daughter to the topic. The story is simple and touching. The illustrations are whimsical. A wonderful book.