My mum was very prudish and so I was told that babies came from under gooseberry bushes. Then I watched a graphical nature programme in the early sixties while she was out. There was an african woman giving birth in a mud hut, and you could see the head emerging. Beleiveing that babies came from gooseberry bushes I could not understand why or how someone had put a baby up inside a woman. It looked so awful I was traumatised for ages until the truth dawned on me.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- My parents told me I was found under a gooseberry bush which I thought odd for a long long time.— Kate
- I used to think that to give birth, a woman had a slit cut into her inner thigh, and the baby would come out.Anon
- I used to believe that a woman gave birth by pressing her belly button and the baby popped out.
— Tasha K - I used to believe that to make babies, a man would pee into a woman's butt. There. I said it.— Hu Flung Pu
- i though that the man and woman couldn't really have babies until marriage,lmao,what a stupid person i was— what a stupid
- I used to think that if a black woman or man and a white woman or man had a baby, it would be Asian.Anon