When I was about 6 or 7, I still had a vague idea that babies came from their mommy's tummy, but I had no clue as to how they got there in the first place, or how they got out. Then I saw a TV program that showed footage of a cat giving birth. I went to my Mom and proudly announced that I now knew how babies are born. Curious (and nervous), she asked me how. I proudly announced with a big smile that "the mother POOPS them out!" Well, she laughed so hard she almost s--t a brick herself, and when she finally calmed down, she carefully and gently explained the concept of there being more than one orifice in the female body....
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- while my son was crying one day, my little brother announced that "babies cry to let off moisture". ha!— i'm laughing WITH you
- When i was little i used to think that a birth mark was the place on the body where you came out of the mother— bipbop
- That the belly button was the place where babies where born from.Anon
- I used to think that I nursing home was a place were mothers would take their new born babies to feed them— Katie
- When I was very little I used to believe that when babies were born they came out of the mother's stomach.— Aerith
- I told my son that he used to be in my tummy when he was 4. So he asked me," Mommy why did you swollow me?"
— Christopher's mom