When I was little, my mother was explaining how baby's grew inside a little sac (the uterus) until they were ready to come out. I thought that when babies were born, they came out in a little sac, like one that looks like a grocery bag. I always asked my mom "so do they throw away the bag after?"
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 believed that women who wanted babies ate a seed, which then grew into their baby. — World's Worst Scientist
- I believed (thanks to my mum) that babies grew on "baby trees" and simply 'fell off' when they were ripe!!!— Stace
- That babies were born with clothes on - I once asked my mum where the clothes I was born in were =]— Liadhain
- I thought that babies were born out of your bellybutton (couldn't think of anywhere else they pop out of!)— Hattie
- I thought brown paper grocery bags would fit more than plastic grocery bags.Anon