My mom always told my sister and me that mermaids had babies out of their mouths: they would blow a bubble with the baby inside and then the doctor would burst the bubble.
A childhood belief about giving birth

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I swallowed bubble gum, a bubble gum tree would grow inside of me. — Ryan
- I used to believe that the bubble gum medicine was really made of bubble gum. i believed this until i was 16.— Shawn
- My mom used to tell me that if I swallowed my gum when I farted, I would blow a bubble out of my butt.— bubblebutt
- I used to believe that if you swallowed chewing gum, when you farted, you would blow a bubble out your butt.— Bubble Butt
- i used to belive if you swallowed gum and then farted, you would blow a gum bubble with your butt.Anon
- I used to believe that babies came out of their mother's mouth like a small bubble.— Evelyn