I knew babies grew inside the mother, but not how they were born. I thought the mother had a door on her back that opened up, like the battery compartment some of my talking dolls had. The baby would just fall out.
When I have told this as an adult, every mother who has heard it has said something like, "if only."
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- When I was very little I used to believe that when babies were born they came out of the mother's stomach.— Aerith
- I used to think that women had a secret door on their stomach that babies opened when they were bornAnon
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- Yeah I believed (because my mother had told me) that your 'willy' would fall off if you played with it :D— Doz
- I used to believe that babies came out of their mother's mouth like a small bubble.— Evelyn
- I used to believe that babies came out through the mother's belly and they sewed up the stomach afterwards.— Lucy