When I was little I thought that when a woman gives birth, the baby explodes out of her stomach. One day when I was little, my younger cousin and I were playing like I was pregnant. when I had the baby, he said it would come out my "private parts." I, of course, didn't believe him.
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- When I was younger I thought that when a woman was pregnant she would feed her baby through her belly button!— Hennie
- 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 used to believe that a woman gave birth by pressing her belly button and the baby popped out.
— Tasha K - 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 a woman was pregnant the baby could play monkey bars on her ribs.— Laura
- I used to believe that when a woman was pregnant, she fed the baby with a tiny spoon through her belly button.— Marie