My first grade art teacher was pregnant, and after she left school to have the baby, some other girls and I found out somehow that it had been a 'difficult birth.' We all knew the facts of life, but one smartypants wisely told us that there were two ways to have a baby, and something about the baby 'coming out the wrong way'. Not being able to imagine anything like a cesarian and using perfect little kid logic, we decided that this meant that you could have a baby vaginally, or anally, anal birth being especially bad–like 10 times worse than having to take a really big dump.
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- Until I was five, I used to think that women gave birth to baby girls and men gave birth to baby boys— Cassidy K
- When I was 5 I thought that baby boys came from men and baby girls came from women...— Gaz
- 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 men had baby boys and women had baby girls.— Janis Smith
- I used to believe that a woman gave birth by pressing her belly button and the baby popped out.
— Tasha K - When I was little I thought that women had to get a Cesarian section to deliver the baby.— Patrick