Elsewhere it is said that God sent the baby and the midwife brought it, the mother only being in bed to be near the baby (which is seldom placed in a cradle).

It is also sometimes said that a lamb or a bird brought the baby.

Again it is said to have entered during the night through the window.
Sometimes, however, the child is told that the baby came out of the mother's breasts, or from below her breasts, and that is why she is not well.
Even when children learn that babies come out of the mother's body this knowledge often remains very vague and inaccurate.

It very commonly happens, for instance, in all civilized countries that the navel is regarded as the baby's point of exit from the body.

This is a natural conclusion, since the navel is seemingly a channel into the body, and a channel for which there is no obvious use, while the pudendal cleft would not suggest itself to girls (and still less to boys) as the gate of birth, since it already appears to be monopolized by the urinary excretion.