Pranks and jokes are a natural way of life for my family. When my mom was a little girl, her mom gave her the customary "where babies come from talk", only she changed the story a bit. As a result, my mom spent her childhood years believing that you had to "poop" your baby out, if you get what I mean... Years later, when it came to my own lesson, my mom couldn't resist adding her own touch to it as her mom had done before her. Embarrasingly enough, it was my belief for many years that babies, (which my mom kindly informed me came out the size of a large watermelon,) had to be pushed out through your bellybutton!! I never did have much respect for that particular body part after that, nor did I ever eat another watermelon!
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- I always thought that you get babies from adding water to baby powder...— baby powder
- I thought that babies were born out of your bellybutton (couldn't think of anywhere else they pop out of!)— Hattie
- If you eat watermelon seeds a watermelon will grow in your tummy and vines will come out your earsAnon
- when you eat the seeds from a watermelon a watermelon will start to grow inside your stomache.Anon
- I used to believe that if you ate a watermelon seed you would grow a watermelon tree in your stomach!!!— Eskimo
- I use to believe (thanks to my Mom) that if I swallowed a watermelon seed a watermelon would grow in my belly.Anon