How do you tell your toddler?

DD is 3 years old. She's sweet, girly and completely obsessed with weddings and babies. She loves pink, she loves doll's and she can't hold her excitement when she see's a pram with a newborn in.

She's one of the reasons we are trying to bring #2 into the world.

We decided not to tell her until I'm showing and she starts to ask, but on discussing this again with my mumsy, I realised something... I didn't show until 6.5 months with DD, and I've put weight on with my hyperthyroidism (before the op) that hasn't gone away yet. So whats to say I'll show much until late late on... meaning she'll miss the magic that comes with the pregnancy and a baby growing inside Mummy's tummy.

But just how do you explain pregnancy to a 3 year old without scaring the eebijeebs out of them?

Well, we discussed it... but Mumsy didn't have that worry as I was 5 when my brother was born, and my brother was 5 when lil brother was born, and things are a little easier even with just a years difference.
So on went the pc, and in went the keywords "telling a toddler about pregnancy."

We found these AMAZING video's that had DD completely engrossed (she watched them all 5 times over!).
Yet they explained it all, scientifically, but in a friendly, child safe way, from conception to labour... without the gross bits!

So I HAD to share them....

http://www.babycentre.co.uk/video/pregnancy/weeks-1-to-9-pregnancy/

The sidebar has all of the video's including all of the sections of pregnancy in small chunks, labour and birth, and how the male/female organs develop (we missed this one out for DD as she didn't really need to know the ins and outs of that.