“Yes, just the same time. Baby is just as precious as you are.”
“I’m bigger.”
“Now you are, but you were baby’s size when you were baby’s age. You are bigger because you have grown since your first birthday.”
Again the subject may perhaps drop, or it may be carried directly forward.
“What is being born?”
“Being born is being shown to the world and seeing the world for the first time. At the end of nine months after God and Daddy and Mummy started to make you, you were ready to open your eyes and breathe and cry, and be a real live baby, and that day they showed you to somebody and you saw the world. That was being born.”
“Where was I before you finished making me?”
“Mummy kept you hidden away so that nobody at all should see you.”
“Where was I hidden?”