Until I was 11 or 12, I would look at our neighborhood granny, and then at her adult son - perhaps he was in his thirties then - and I would wonder how she was able to give birth to such a big baby! It never occurred to me that he was born tiny, and grew up to be a big man!
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when being born, your mom would give birth to an egg, and later you would hatch— Becca
- I used to think that to give birth, a woman had a slit cut into her inner thigh, and the baby would come out.Anon
- Until I was five, I used to think that women gave birth to baby girls and men gave birth to baby boys— Cassidy K
- That you could give birth to what ever you chose (i.e a girl, a boy, twins, triplets)— Krista Durling
- I used to believe that a baby shower was a tiny bathtub with a showerhead just for the baby.— Amy
- I used to think that if you didn't have a birth mark you hadn't been born.— Kim