When I was a child I always wondered how babies got out of their pregnant mothers stomachs. So one day I asked my mother and grandmother, who happened to both be in the kitchen at the same time. Now Grandma, being very chaste, tried to change the subject, but my mother began to explain how babies came out "Down There". My grandmother piped up "but not the dirty part". Now for the life of me, I could not believe them, I thought to my self "there's no darn way a baby can get out of there, it's just too small." So I figured that the woman must just vomit it out of her mouth. But to me that didnt' sound right either. So until I was thirteen and my older and much wiser cousins told me ALL about the birth process...I was adamant that babies popped out of your navel and then the whole just closed up again, until the next time it was needed. Boy was I dumb!
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that babies came out of their mother's mouth like a small bubble.— Evelyn
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- 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 babies came out of your mothers belly buttons:)— Mirranda
- When I was very little I used to believe that when babies were born they came out of the mother's stomach.— Aerith
- I used to believe that babies came out through the mother's belly and they sewed up the stomach afterwards.— Lucy