My Aunt is a family doctor, and once told me about a 29, that's 29 year old woman who came ot her with her first pregnancy.
So my aunt settled her down for a pelvic examination, and the woman was actingas if she was extremely uncomfortable. Finally, my aunt actually started to do the internal, and the woman leapt up, pushed her hand away, proclaimed, 'Not there Doctor!' and burst into tears.
It turned out that she had somehow been under the impression that babies were born through the umbilical cord, and the process of labour was the time when the cord extended out - much like an extendable staircase, or tje emergency slide on an airplane - from the belly button.
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- I used to think Art Deco was Aunt Deco, and wondered who this famously artistic woman was meant to be.Anon
I used to believe a man and a woman needed a doctor to put their parts together when they did it.— Phil- My Aunt used to tell me that if I cried too much, I would run out of tears.— Peter
- i used to think my aunt sandra was aunt bannana.Anon
- I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant, she fed the baby with a tiny spoon through her belly button.— Marie
- I used to believe that a woman gave birth by pressing her belly button and the baby popped out.
— Tasha K