My mom always had a black Singer sewing machine in a cabinet...it was just there...always open...frequently used. When I was about 4 years old my older sister told me that babies came from the mother's stomach and they cut the stomach open, got the baby out and sewed the mother back up. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out how they got the mother's stomach through the sewing machine to do that!!! That was the only kind of "sewing" I had ever seen...my mother never did hand sewing.