When I was really little I used to think that when a woman had a baby it would sort of rise up through her stomach some how, like her stomach would sort of melt away a bit for the baby to pass through.
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- I thought a stomach ache was a stomach egg— Catherine
- 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
- That to make a baby a man (over 21 & under 25) had to kiss a woman (over 19 & under 21).— Johny
- I used to believe that a baby's sex was determined by whether the sperm had a picture of a man or woman on it.— David E.
- 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
- I thought that if a black man and a white woman (or reverse) had a baby it would be stripped!— Bec