I knew enough about the body to know that when a woman was pregnant, that the baby was in "her belly"...and I worried all the time about that poor baby sitting in there getting chewed up food dropped onto it's head all the time!
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant, she fed the baby with a tiny spoon through her belly button.— Marie
- When I was younger I thought that when a woman was pregnant she would feed her baby through her belly button!— Hennie
- I thought my neighbor breastfed her baby because they were too poor to afford baby bottles. Maybe they were!— Kristen
- A friend of mine used to think that you got pregnant from eating baby food.— Jemima
- I used to believe that a woman gave birth by pressing her belly button and the baby popped out.
— Tasha K - I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant the baby could play monkey bars on her ribs.— Laura