When I was little, I loved to help my grandmother cook and my favorite thing she made for me was chicken and dumplngs (the right kind of dumplings - not biscuits or giant gobs of dough - but flat delicious homemade noodle kind). One day when she was showing me how to cut up/debone chickens, she started the description with "think of it as a little baby and stick the knife in..."
I thought of that today when trying to describe something to an md today. This was my highly religious, women are submissive to men grandmother (my other grandmother was a screw that sort - they were opposites). It still makes me smile to think of her giving that sort of analogy