I was 3 when my younger sister was born. My mother had a ceserean (sp?) and showed me the scar/stitches from it. Naturally, this led me to believe that when a baby was ready to be born, it pushed it's way out of it's mother's stomach, ripping her skin on the way, and that's why it hurt so much. I believed this until I was about 10 and learned how babies are really born... probably almost as painful though ;)
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
- When I was young, I believed that because my mother was born in New Mexico, that I was part Mexican.Anon
- I used to think that women had a secret door on their stomach that babies opened when they were bornAnon
- That babies were born with clothes on - I once asked my mum where the clothes I was born in were =]— Liadhain
- I used to believe that I was older than my brother because I was born in June and he was born in OctoberAnon
- i used to think boys were born from men and girls were born from women— swag lad123