when i was 4, my mom was pregnant with my little brother. i remember once, she was rubbing her big belly saying " wake up, austin! wake up!" For some reason, i imagined her belly being divided into 4 compartments, and in 1 of them (i even remember where it was! the top left compartment!) was a little fox in a fox den sleeping on a bed, while another fox was saying "wake up austin!" well, later, when my mom went into labor, my grandma stayed home with us. she kept saying, "Austin's coming! Austin's coming!" I was sooooo scared, cuz I thought a fox was gonna be coming, and wasn't sure if it would eat me or not! I still remember the day of his birth, and my surprise when a baby came instead :)
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- when i was young i used to believe a wake was when you waited for the dead person to wake upAnon
- I thought that when you died, you had 2 weeks to be dead then you would magically wake up again, but as a babyAnon
- I thought that life is a dream and when you die you wake up (maybe it's true who knows?)— Naos
- I used to believe that a woman gave birth by pressing her belly button and the baby popped out.
— Tasha K - I used to think that "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" went: "Wake Me Up Before It's Over"Anon
- When I was younger I thought that when a woman was pregnant she would feed her baby through her belly button!— Hennie