At 5 years old, I understood the basic concept of making babies, but I thought that the daddy's sperm went up the pee hole and into the stomach somewhere, and I didn't realize there was a third hole down there. So I assumed all babies had to be cut out of their mommy's stomach.
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- My Mom used to tell us that if you bit your fingernails, they would cut a hole in your stomach.— Linda B
- i used to belive that babies came from the stomachAnon
- 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 think that women had a secret door on their stomach that babies opened when they were bornAnon
- I thought that to breastfeed, a woman had to poke a hole in her nipple (like the hole in a bottle nipple).— Imani B.