When I got more information of where babies came from, I used to think they’d come out of the mother’s stomach. I was terrified to ever have a baby, since I thought the baby blaster out the mother’s stomach and left a hole, the bellybutton. OUCH!
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- 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
- That because Gerber Baby Food had a baby on it real babies were put in there. Thanks a lot cousin!— Nicole
- My Mom used to tell us that if you bit your fingernails, they would cut a hole in your stomach.— Linda B
- When I was little I believed that the mother vomited the baby. Anon
- I thought a stomach ache was a stomach egg— Catherine