Worried you might struggle to find the right words when the time comes to explain the birds and the bees to your children? Well, this book will at least give you a laugh along the way.
In a post to her Facebook page, British mum Katherine Peck explains that her son, Adem, chose a book while in the doctor's waiting room called Mummy Laid an Egg.
"Haha, aren't us mummies clever!", Ms Peck writes. The book, she continues, began "routinely enough" with "sugar and spice and all things nice."
On page six, however, it took a swift u-turn, with young readers introduced to "daddy's friendly looking seed pods".
Daddy and his "seed pods".
And, she says, there are no holds barred on pages 8 and 9 either, where youngsters are informed in a matter-of-fact way, "this fits in here..."
What follows, Ms Peck writes, is "what can only be described as a child-friendly Kama Sutra guide", with aerial acrobatics, fetish clown outfits, balloons and space hoppers (?!) to show the myriad ways "mummies and daddies fit together".
Yep, that's news to us, too ...
Mummies and daddies fitting together with balloons and space hoppers
Then comes The Great Egg Race: "Come on lads!"
And we love the - clearly very accurate - image of childbirth, too.
That's exactly how we remember giving birth ...
Ms Peck explains that her eight-year-old, Ayla, found the "silly baby book" particularly interesting. "Cue the 4 billion questions I hadn't planned answering today," she wrote.
Ms Peck's post has been shared over 30,000 times - and has parents around the world in hysterics.
"Anyone who can make a baby on a skateboard, well done. I don't think I could," one commenter wrote.
"I will never be able to look at balloons and space hoppers in the same light ever again," another added.
Among the 14,000 comments, others also shared their memories of having encountered the book as children themselves, or giving it to their own kids.
"I remember being given this for my son about 10 years ago," one commenter shared. "It made me laugh for weeks."
Some also felt it was perhaps a little too much information a little too soon.
"I'm both amused and horrified," wrote one mum, summing up the sentiments of many.
Authored by Babette Cole, Mummy Laid an Egg won the 1994 British Illustrated Children's Book of the Year Award.
And according to her website, it's sold an astonishing 2,500,000 copies worldwide.
What do you think of this book? Hilarious or horrifying?
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