when I was young i remember just assuming that babies come out of your mouth, the theory being that babies grew in your stomach so how else would they get in or out? what puzzled me most was that i was told i was a big baby but my mother has an unusually small mouth.
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
- I used to believe that babies were born through the mom's mouth.
Don't know how I came up with that. — Makenna - 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
- I believed that women who wanted babies ate a seed, which then grew into their baby. — World's Worst Scientist
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know