in my early life i was under the impression that babies somehow morphed their way through their mummy's tummy when 'born'. i didn't ever think of the specifics...

shube

One day my son (10) excitedly told me that he knew where babies come from. I was anxious to hear his response and was tickled when he told me that babies come out of there Mom's butts.

Julie

I used to think, that to give birth, the doctor pressed the mum's bellybutton and the baby just popped out!

If only it was that easy!

Julez

When I was little I used to believe that when a lady was ready to have her baby that it came out of her mouth! Then I thought, well hey, it must have been easy for my mom because she has a big mouth!

WHO CARES?

I used to think that babies came out of the same place that poo did, and that women couldn't go to the toilet when they were pregnant in case the baby came out...

Catiana

Like many people, I thought that babies were born through the belly button.
So one time, when I was 5, I went swimming with my best friend. She had this sort of two piece tankini swimsuit, and I could clearly see her belly button. I was horrified to note that it was an outie.
I took her aside to break the news to her. I grimly informed her that she could never have children.
Her mother chided me for causing her to break into tears for no reason.

Lara

i actually thought babies just ripped through ur stomach when they were born and that's why all those women on tv screamed during birthing scenes

Brooke

I used to believe that Test Tube Babies were babies that were born with problems, and they had to run Tests to make sure the babies tube was working properly.

Bob

When I was little I believed that the mother vomited the baby.

Anon

That babies were born with clothes on - I once asked my mum where the clothes I was born in were =]

Liadhain

When I was really little I used to think that when a woman had a baby it would sort of rise up through her stomach some how, like her stomach would sort of melt away a bit for the baby to pass through.

Anon

I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant and it was time for her to give birth, the baby would just 'pop out'. I was very that when I was pregnant the baby would fall into the toilet and I would flush it into the sewars, where it became one of the 'sewar children'.

Anon

I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant her stomach would eventually burst and the babies would go flying. I must have practiced for hours, passing a ball around with my sisters, when I found out that my mom was pregnant!

SAMANDMAU

Two beliefs:

1) I had just come from eardrum surgery to restore my hearing a few days earlier. My little sister was born, and I went in to see her. When my dad took a Polaroid photo, she got freaked out by the sound of the shutter, looked directly at me, and started scream-crying at the top of her lungs. It was so painful to me that I begged, "Take her back!" to the nurses, which I thought they could do. I wish they would have, now that I think about it.

2) I used to have an imaginary baby that I played with and pretended to be its mom. When my male cousins made fun of me, I said that if they weren't nice to her I would put her back inside me and she'd go away forever. Yikes!!!

Michelle

When I was real really little I believed that when you were born your parents decided if you were a boy or a girl by having the doctors either cut the penis off or by leaving it on.

Danice

When I was little I believe that babies came out through your intestines since the baby was in the mommie's "tummy" and that's why it hurt so much!

Mary

for many years i didn't know that women had vaginas and so i thought all babies were born out of women's asses. i remember seeing pregnant women as a child and feeling sorry for the stress that they must have endured every time they took a crap because they never knew if they would have to fish their child out of the toilet bowl.

vadim

When my brother was born and I was 2, my parents gave me a puppet, telling me it was from my brother, so I would like him and wouldn't get jealous. I thought the puppet came out of my mom's belly, along with my brother!

Anon

When I was younger my mom told me that you can only have babies after you are married, so I always imagined her when she was getting married to my dad in this big church, after the guy said, "you may kiss the bride" They would kiss and then my mom would walk over near the wall where they had this big wooden table, and while she was still in her wedding dress, she would lay down and then the priest guy would come over and cut her stomach open and just take out a baby ( and the baby already had clothes on ) and then my mom told me that they staple her stomach back up so then I imagined the priest with this lil mini stapler stapling her stomach back up.....I can't believe I thought that!

Valerie

i used to believe that people were born when you popped a balloon - please dont ask where that came from but it wasnt until i was in year 6 (when we got taught about it) that i actually stopped believing that

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Mex