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A sooterkin is a fabled small creature about the size of a mouse that certain women were believed to have been capable of giving birth to. The origin of this initially jocular fantasy lies in the 18th century, and came to be considered factual by some eminent physicians of the day. It is attributed to a tendency of Dutch women to frequently sit on stoves or use them under their petticotas to keep warm, hence causing the breeding of a small kind of animal, which when mature would be born.

The English physician John Maubray published The female Physician, in which he proposed that it was possible for women to give birth to sooterkins. Maubray was an advocate for maternal impression, a widely held belief that conception and pregnancy could be influenced by what the pregnant mother dreamt of, or saw. 
A sooterkin may also be used to refer to an abortion, an abortive scheme, or a failed plan.