When I was a child most babies were delivered at home by the village midwife. She carried a big black "doctor's bag". As children we believed that people ordered a baby and she brought it to the house in the black bag. We also thought that all babies were boys and the mother and father dressed it as a boy if they wanted to keep it as a boy, but dressed it as a girl if they wanted a girl. As we got a little older we got more confused over gender and circumcison. We thought the parents who wanted a girl took the baby to be circumcised (everything cut off!!!) to turn it into a girl.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that boys had boy babies, and girls had girl babies.
That was when I was 3-7. I'm 15 now.— Stefanie Michelle - I believed that women who wanted babies ate a seed, which then grew into their baby. — World's Worst Scientist
- when i was a little girl i thought God looked like my grandma and dressed like the statue of liberty. Anon
- When I was a little girl, I thought all babies came from 'China' (a Vagina)— Lainie
- When i was younger i thougth that when you grew up you could decide whether you wanted to be a girl or a boy. Anon
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon