i always had this image in my head of the doctor tying the pregnant woman to a pole, sawing open her stomach and opening it with a handle and then the baby came out.
A childhood belief about giving birth

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant the baby could play monkey bars on her ribs.— Laura
- 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 used to believe that the North Pole was the coldest place in the world and the South Pole was the hottest...— Logica
I used to believe a man and a woman needed a doctor to put their parts together when they did it.— Phil- I used to think that if a black woman or man and a white woman or man had a baby, it would be Asian.Anon