until about the age of ten, i was never completely sure how babies were born. i finally settled on the explanation that since babies grew in your stomach, then they must come out of your stomach. literally- i thought your stomach opened, starting with the belly button, for the baby to come out. so when my mom told me the reason for my dad's hospital visit was a hole in his stomach (i think it was an ulcer) i asked with great surprise, "Is he pregnant?"
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- I used to think that women had a secret door on their stomach that babies opened when they were bornAnon
- 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 used to belive that babies came from the stomachAnon
- I thought a stomach ache was a stomach egg— Catherine
- When my mom would say that my eyes were bigger than my stomach I thought she meant it literally.— Amanda