I found out about sex when I was 12, but I remained unclear on the actual birth process until I was 17 or 18. I believed the baby would come out the mom's butt. I was always terrified by this since I thought a 9 month pregnant mother might go to poop but accidentally plop the baby into the toilet.
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- Until I was five, I used to think that women gave birth to baby girls and men gave birth to baby boys— Cassidy K
- I used to believe that when you were pregnant, if you went to the toilet your baby would come out. — 2 Awesome
- when i was 8 i took a huge poop and i thought it was a baby— kl
- I thought baby back ribs were from actual babiesAnon
- When I was little I believed that the mother vomited the baby. Anon
- 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