Seems that many people had my same belief, but it used to really fill me with fear. I too believed that mothers pooped their babies out, but they did so while sitting on the toilet. I always used to worry about the babies drowning in the water and wondered how the mothers were fast enough to clean themselves and also save their babies.

ReinRamm

when I was little and asked my Mom how the baby got out of a lady's tummy, she told me that ladies have a "special hole" for the baby to come out of. I thought that the " special hole" was your belly button!

A few years later, my little sister saw my Dad's belly button and thought that he was pregnant!-she must have used the same logic!

Sara

This is how I pictured birth in my mind as a child: The expectant mother would go up on a stage in front of a large audience. A big red curtain would open so that the audience would see the expectant mother naked and squatting over a five gallon bucket. She would push the child out into the bucket and the audience would applaude.

Alicia Feltman

When I was little every movie and t.v. show I watched in which a woman gave birth, they always showed the process happening really fast. The woman's water breaks and BAM, 5 minutes later a baby. So not knowing any better, I really though that labor only lasted about 5 to 10 minutes. So whenever I would see a pregnant woman, I would always hope she'd go into labor right there so I could get to watch and see the baby. Never happened though. But it wasn't until I was about 13 that I learned labor in fact is usually MUCH longer than 5 minutes!

Anon

I used to believe that blue babies were babies who held their bereath too long. My best friend told me she and her dad were born blue, her sister was purple and her mom was green. I looked at baby pics of myself and told her I was pink.

DumbKid

I really used to believe that a C-section was another name for natural birth. My mom had a C-section for me and another for my brother and she used to show us the small scar and tell "you came out of here, the doc cut my belly and I had you first and then your brother".

I believed this until I was 14, when (at school) they showed a video of a natural birth. I was totally scared and couldn't imagine how can a baby the size of a watermellon could come out of that small hole. I called my mom begging her to go home and throwed up for days.

Still scared of natural births!

Fernanda

As a child, I'd always known that a baby grows inside a mom's "belly."

When I turned four, my parents concieved a third child.

I always thought that the baby grew inside the stomach, and just ate whatever mom did.

Well, eventually food leaves the body, and so should the baby... but both were to come out the same hole... the butt.

Everytime my mom would poop, I'd have to watch her and make sure she didn't have my brother then and there.

During the real birth of my brother, my other brother and I were sent to our grandma's house, where our new brother had "sent" us toys to play with while we waited for dad to take us back home.

I remember that day so clearly, and the one thought that prevailed in my head; "I hope she goes to the bathroom right away... she'll probably need a diaper... I know I would." ((and that was what adult diapers were for.))

The Ever-Concerned Sister

Up until about 9, I believed babies were birthed from the anus. My mom once described it as 'taking the biggest crap of her life' and it always sort of stuck with me, heh.

Jo

I thought that babies would just rip out of the mothers stomach. i was horrified of pregnancy for awhile and i wondred why only some women got surgery for pregnancy.

Anon

Until i was 7,I believed that the stork actually delivered babies.

I was a very stupid kid....

DumbKid

I once asked my Mom where babies came from and since she wasn't ready to explain female anatomy to me yet, she told me they came out of the woman's butt. I'm still scarred by that idea to this day.

brad

My eldest child was born when I was 19 and very niave. Just before my due date one of the nurses at the OB office told me that after birth most women experience bleeding similar to that of a menstrual cycle and she recommended that I make sure I was prepared with the appropriate supplies at home. After that visit I stopped by the market for TAMPONS! A few days later it seemed pretty obvious tht wasn't what she meant.

:-)

This is not my belief, but my step-cousin's:

When my step-mother was pregnant with my half-sister Alice, my step-cousin was fascinated by the whole affair, and couldn't wait for Alice to come out so she could play with her. Evetually it was explained to my step-cousin that Alice mightn't be able to do all the exciting things she wanted to do with her at first - that, in fact, when she was born, Alice wouldn't even be able to walk.

"That's alright," declared my step-cousin, without much concern. "If she doesn't have any legs, I'll carry her!"

Rhube

When I was very young (maybe three) I thought that babies were born from between a woman's breasts. Probably this thought was encouraged by the fact that my mom, being slightly heavy at the time, had very DEEP cleavage.

Mark Alfred

I used to believe that babies came out of your mothers belly buttons:)

Mirranda

when i was little my mum told me that babie are born through a little hole in your tummy. i looked at my own tummy and the only little hole i could find was my belly button so i assumed that babies were born out of your belly button. but what i didnt understand was how that big baby inside you could squeeze out of a tiny little hole. it was in y3 i found out that i was thinking of the wrong hole. lol! *smacks head*

belly babie

I used to think that women didn't have vaginas so a baby would come out of their belly buttons. I thought this for a few years, and then my mother told me that babyies were fed from the mothers belly button when a women was pregnant. That made me think that the baby would be eating out of a small tube in their mother and then all of a sudden it would be sucked into the tube and end up outside of the person.

johnny

When I was around 5 I told my mom that babies come out of your butt. It wasn't until I was 25 that my mom finally understood that I had no idea where babies really come out from. She thought my nickname for my vagina was butt!!

kerimoo

well i thought ::for a good 10 years of my life:: sad to say that a girl only had two holes and that the baby came out of a new hole that formed right when you were about to have the baby. i always wanted to find that hole.

crazy~

When I was pregnant a couple years ago, my 4 yr old daughter thought that I would explode when the baby was born. She was quite relieved to hear that it didn't work that way, though I didn't go into great detail about the way it really happens.

Anon