When I was little, my grandma had problems with her stomach and had her stomach cut open a couple of times. Well, since she had kids before, i thought that when you had a kid they shot out of your belly button. I believed this until i was 9 when my mom explained your period.
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- My dad told me when I was little that my belly button was "Where the Indian shot me"Anon
- I used to think that my belly button was where I was once shot and that the navel was a healed up bullet hole— Tony
- I used to believe that babies came out through the mother's belly and they sewed up the stomach afterwards.— Lucy
- I thought a stomach ache was a stomach egg— Catherine
- I used to believe that if I slept with my mouth open that spiders would crawl in there and live in my stomachAnon
- I believed that if you pushed your belly button, your bum would fall off.— Wendy