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Questions, Questions, Questions…

They were finally home. It had been a few chaotic days. Little Daniel's birth had thrown everyone for a loop. At first everything had been, although a little unexpected, very quiet. They even took little Allison to the delivery room to be with her mommy, getting many, many kisses and cuddles with her.

However, things don't always turn out as expected. There was a turn in the road, Teddy's blood pressure skyrocketed, putting her and the little baby in danger. So to avoid future complications such as seizures, stroke or even the death of both, she and the baby, it was decided to take her immediately to the OR to perform a C-section.

Luckily there everything went as planned and after a few days in the hospital finally mom and baby were discharged.

As soon as they arrived, Allison didn't want to separate a single second from her mommy and her baby brother. She was amazed with him, how small and sweet he was.

"Mommy, why does he sleep so much?" Allison watched his brother sleep in the bassinet next to her parents' bed.

"Because he is a baby, babies sleep a lot."

"Did I slept a lot too?"

"A lot!" Teddy smiled.

Allison laid her chin on the edge of the bassinet, stroking her baby brother's cheek with her index finger very, very softly, looking at him tenderly causing her mother's crazy hormones to make her cry. She was so happy to have her two little ones here and healthy and see how much Allison loved her brother, especially after how she feared her girl would feel replaced, and how scary her labor was.

Owen couldn't help smiling broadly when he entered the room and looked at such a scene, sharing an emotional look with Teddy.

After Owen, Jack, their rescued puppy ran in.

"Allison, keep an eye on him!" Teddy warned his daughter, they were still house training the puppy, she would hate the dog peeing in Daniel's bassinet.

"Yes, mommy!" Allison took the little puppy in her arms. "He's my baby." She cradled him in her arms and rocked him making her parents laugh. "Look Jack, he is my baby brother!" The little girl introduced her brother to Jack by approaching him to the bassinet. "He's very cute, isn't he?"

"Put him a little closer, so he can smell him and meet him." Owen instructed his daughter.

The little girl did what her father said. Immediately the puppy began to smell the new member of the family with much interest, wagging his tail and then let out a kind of howl, still very raw and shaky, making Daniel mewl softly.

Then Owen took his son and placed him in Teddy's arms. "She will be an amazing big sister." He whispered as he sat next to her on the bed, bringing her closer with his protective arm.

"She will be, I'm so proud of her."

"Mommy, where is Jack's mommy? Why did she leave him on the street?" Little Allison asked her mother as she climbed onto the bed, making her way in the middle of her parents, pushing her father aside and snuggling next to her mother, watching her movements carefully, watching as she laid her little brother on her chest and she did the same with the puppy.

"I don't know where Jack's mommy is, baby. She is probably still in the street." Teddy replied.

"And what if Jack got lost and she's looking for him?" Teddy and Owen shared a look, here came Allison and her thousands of questions. "I think we should go to the street to find Jack's mommy, so she can be with her baby too. You would be sad if Daniel or I got lost, wouldn't you?"

"Damn it!" Teddy muttered under her breath about to cry at the sweets and eloquent thoughts of her daughter about moms and babies.

Owen laughed and kissed Teddy on the temple. "Baby, maybe someone didn't want Jack and that's why they threw him to the street."

"Yeah, and his mommy must be looking for him." Allison replied stroking Jack's head and kissing him.

"So you want us to throw him back to the street so Jack can look for his mom?"

"No!" Allison cried terrified. "But I think we should look for her mommy and bring her here."

"Love, at the moment we can only have one dog, maybe in the future we can have one more. Okay?" Owen tried to convince her.

"And can I have another sibling too? A sister this time?"

Teddy laughed. "We'll see, baby. We'll see." Then he shot Owen a flirting look.

Jack began to get restless, so Allison took him to the backyard, but immediately ran back to his parents' room. She really didn't want to spend a second separated from her mommy and her brother.

Soon it was time to feed Daniel, and Allison watched with curiosity and wonder as he was fed from her mother's breast.

"Mommy, why does he eat like that?"

"All babies eat like this, my love."

"So, he can't eat cookies?"

"Oh no, no cookies, Allison!" Owen warned her, but not in a harsh way.

Allison remained staring at her baby brother for several minutes without saying a single word, until she came up with a series of questions for which her parents were not prepared.

"Mommy, who put my baby brother in your tummy?"

Teddy and Owen shared a look. From the beginning they agreed that they would always talk to their daughter about the anatomy and functions of the body with their real names and not that slang that some parents used. As doctors, it was the least they could do. But they also agreed that they wouldn't do so until she was interested, but they thought that there were still some years left, when she was 7 or 8 years old maybe, not now, when she was just about to turn 5.

"Well... you'll see ..." Teddy was nervous, she wanted to use the right words, but she felt strange talking to her little almost-5-year-old girl about penises and vaginas and that, although they were just another body parts like hands, legs and her ears, she was definitely not ready to talk to her baby girl about sex.

"Look baby." Owen intervened. "When mommy and daddy love each other very, very, very much, daddy gives mommy a lot more love and together they make a baby."

"Hmmm…" Allison seemed convinced, but they knew her little and inquiring girl, this was just the beginning. "And where did he grow up?"

"He grows up in a part that only we, women, have called uterus. There is where babies grow." Teddy replied.

"So, do I have a uterus?"

"Yes honey, you have one. All women have one."

"So, can I have a baby?"

Owen cleared his throat, it bothered him to think of his baby having babies. "You can, but not now. Only adult women can. When you grow up…" He coughed. "You can..." He coughed again. "You can have your own baby."

Teddy couldn't help laughing, it was so funny to see how awkward Owen felt talking to his baby about making babies of herself. He was so overprotective, she could almost see that it would be very difficult for Allison to have a boyfriend in the future.

"Hey daddy, and how—?"

As saved by the bell, Daniel let out a shrill cry, interrupting his sister and saving his parents from more questions. But the surprises were far from over.

That night, while Allison helped Owen prepare dinner, the little girl came with an unexpected comment that would come to put the cherry on top of her curiosity.

"Daddy, I already know where babies come from!"

Here she goes again, Owen thought. "Oh yeah? Where from?" Owen was uncomfortable for a moment, they hadn't talked to her about where the babies came from, so he didn't know where she got that information.

"The bellybutton!" Allison answered, showing herself very proud of her answer. "The doctor opens the bellybutton, as they did with mommy and takes the baby out!"

Owen breathed in relief. Since she started talking she had a question for everything. First it started with the simple How? and Why? As he grew older her questions became more complex and to this day, neither Owen nor Teddy were ready for her hundreds of questions.