I used to think that to give birth, a woman had a slit cut into her inner thigh, and the baby would come out.
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a woman gave birth by pressing her belly button and the baby popped out.
— Tasha K - Until I was five, I used to think that women gave birth to baby girls and men gave birth to baby boys— Cassidy K
- I used to believe that when being born, your mom would give birth to an egg, and later you would hatch— Becca
- That you could give birth to what ever you chose (i.e a girl, a boy, twins, triplets)— Krista Durling
- 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
- i used to think babies came out of the side of the moms thigh— jared mongolian