Before I learned about anatomy I used to believe babies came from a woman's cleavage. I would sit for hours staring at women's breasts waiting for a baby to poke their head out.
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- I believed that women who wanted babies ate a seed, which then grew into their baby. — World's Worst Scientist
- I used to believe that babies came from between/underneath the breasts.Anon
- When we were young, we used to call a woman's breasts, 'Hum Hums'— Steve Haughton
- I used to think my grandmother had two, shall we say, back ends. I didn't realize the second one was cleavage.Anon
- When I was 5 I thought that baby boys came from men and baby girls came from women...— Gaz
- 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