I had a friend explain to me in the first grade that when a mom gives birth it is actually a surgery that removes the baby from the mommy by cutting off the mommy's head and pulling the baby out of her neck. And then her head is glued back together. Did I mention my friend is an only child?
A childhood belief about giving birth

others believed things like this
- i used to belive that pubes were hair fallen from your head and glued on
— marcus - Until I was five, I used to think that women gave birth to baby girls and men gave birth to baby boys— Cassidy K
- My friend used to believe baby oil was made from babiesAnon
- To this day my friend (he's 17) swears that chipmunks are baby squirrels.— Liz
- A friend of mine used to think that you got pregnant from eating baby food.— Jemima
- I used to think that to give birth, a woman had a slit cut into her inner thigh, and the baby would come out.Anon