As a little girl I was convinced that babies had the choice of being born from their mummy's tummy buttons or their bottoms. I told everyone I had emerged from my mum's tummy button, and was devastated when I learned the truth!!
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I slept on my tummy my boobs would never grow so I never slept on my tummy.— LoLo
- I told my son that he used to be in my tummy when he was 4. So he asked me," Mommy why did you swollow me?"
— Christopher's mom - That the belly button was the place where babies where born from.Anon
- My mum always told me not to pick my nose and eat it because spiders would grow in my tummy......— Ben
- my nanna told me if I swallowed gum that I would have a gum tree growing out of my tummy— ms pouty
- My sister told me whenever I had a tummy ache it was my unborn twin inside my stomache trying to get out.— Jamie Field