I'm still not sure what I will tell my kids, probably just the truth because yeah, our culture is such now that kids learn things so early anyway. 

When I was a kid my mom told me that she took a pill to get pregnant, haha.  My mother-in-law told me that when my hubby asked where babies come from when he was a kid, she simply replied "the birth canal" and that seemed to satisfy his curiosity, and he never asked again.  She got off easy she said.

Honestly, the earlier you tell them, the better.  The youngest child to get pregnant in this area was 8.  (My dad works in the OB GYN clinic, so this isn't a fake propoganda to get education into schools or anything.)

You don't have to tell them the full truth, but you do have to warn them, adamantly.

Fortunately my daughter is a little young for that talk!  My mom sat me down and gave my brother and I a huge long talk about menstruation and pregnancy and sex and all that when I was 5 or so.  It was really strange to me, I think I just didn't really understand why she was telling us all this stuff that was gross and irrelevant.  She never mentioned it again until I actually got my first visit from that witch Aunt Flo, then she again told me about being fertile and pregnant and all that.  When I went to school, we had sex ed in 7th grade science class, then again in 10th grade "guidance" class.  I don't know what horrendously awful age they're teaching it now, but I guess I'd like to be the one to tell my daughter about sex first.  We'll probably go for a matter of fact approach since that's the kind of person we are.  Whatever we tell her, I know Hubby will end it with a firm, "I'll kill whoever tries to have sex with you."

I really think it is an individual child thing.  My mom is a nurse and when I was in 2nd grade she told me the actual truth.  My best friend is having a baby in September and so read this book to them that was really appropriate, I think it is something about like I came from an egg or something along those lines.  I had a baby when my son was 2.5 and so he didn't ask any questions BUT my SIL's dog just had puppies (he is now 3.5)and we kept telling him she had puppies in her tummy.  One day he finally ask me if she was going to crack open when the puppies came out.  So I just told him she had a hole that the puppies came out and that it was currently closed and would open when it was time for the puppies to come out.  That satisfied him.  I know more questions will come up, but you really have to think at their age level and what are they REALLY asking.  Where do babies come from is a very vague question you just have to try to have them get to what they are really asking.  

I will always tell her the truth.  I'm not one to 'pee on your boots and tell you it's raining' as Burt Renolds would say.    Age appropriate of course.  I'm not going into the full sex talk at age 5 or anything.  I know there are good books out there.  When these things come up, I plan to follow in the advice of a friend of mine. 

Whenever her son had questions, she would respond "well, how about we go to the library together and look it up."  They would go together, she would help him pick a book that was age appropriate and then they would take it home, sit down and together go through it.  She would ask along the way if he understood what they were reading, answer questions, and then go on.  They have a great relationship.  He is 13 and still comes to him mom when he has questions about anything.  She always reinforces to him that she is there to answer questions because she would rather him know the real story then asking his friends who might not really know either.

I had the 'sex talk' with mom at some point... can't remember exactly when.  I'm guessing around 11 or something.  But then any previous inclinations I had about wanting to keep the whole baby thing a mystery (I was a fairly niave child) were all shot to hell when I was 12.  My mom got pregnant with my sister (I was an only child until then).  Several weeks before I had woken up in the night sick.  I went out to the couch to sleep in case I got REALLY sick so I could be near mom.  Well, the living room was right next to their bedroom.  I uh.... 'heard' them .... then a several weeks later they tell me she's preggers.  Yup.  That about sealed the deal for me. 

I was told it was a "special hug" when I was little. I think that's a good answer, mostly true!

Gosh! When i was a kid i never even thought about it. I guess i was a little naive or pre-occupied or something. But i din't think to ask about "where babies come from". My sister ended up getting the "sex talk" when she asked what the F word meant. (Well, she asked for it.) From that moment forth she thought it was her duty to tell the world. so my sister told me and my friends and my cousins .... (Which was a good thing because one of my cousins was 17 and had no idea.) I guess the world was a little different then.

I was never given the sex talk...ever...in fact the word was never said in my house growing up, and I'm surprised that I'm the only one with that kind of experience here. My parents were/are EXTREMELY religious and that was just something that was not brought up in our house. I was expected to not date until AFTER I graduated college and I was to marry and then have babies. Well, I dropped out of college, moved in with my boyfriend and lost my virginity at 17 and got pregnant when I wasn't married. I learned from the internet, friends, and TV. So I know for a fact that that will NOT happen in my house. I want her to be so open with me that when she starts to think she's ready (which she wont be) she will be comfortable enough to come to me and ask me questions and tell me she's ready (even though she won't be) I baisically want to have a Loralie and Rory relationship from 'Gilmore Girls'.