At some point I knew babies came out of mommies bellies, but I thought they came bursting directly out. I asked my mom, "what happens to the split after the baby is born?" And she said, "well, the muscles just kind of close back up I guess." And I thought, naw, how can that be, there's a tear down their bellies!
(I was born in mid sixties, before C sections were so popular.)
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- That babies were born with clothes on - I once asked my mum where the clothes I was born in were =]— Liadhain
- I thought that babies were born out of your bellybutton (couldn't think of anywhere else they pop out of!)— Hattie
- when i was 5 yars old i thought that a baby is born axacly a year after the marifgeAnon
- When I was around 4 or 5, I thought babies came from seeds that daddies put in mommies bellybuttons.— gullible
- I also used to think that Mommies didn't have periods. I thought it went away once you had a baby.— T
- I used to believe that babies were born out our bellybuttons.Anon