When I was told that babies were made by the man going inside the woman and planting his seed I was confused - surely you couldn't get a whole person inside you???
so i thought the man took a magic potion that made him shrink, he somehow got inside (i think the bellybutton was involved), planted his seed then grew back to normal size once he was out!
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a tree would grow inside you if you ate the seed of an apple or any other fruit!Anon
- My Mom used to tell me if I swallowed an apple seed I would grow an apple tree inside my stomach!— Marg
- I used to believe if you ate a seed from a fruit, a tree of that fruit would grow inside you — kels
- I believed that women who wanted babies ate a seed, which then grew into their baby. — World's Worst Scientist
- When I was little I wanted to be an actress because I thought they shrink you and put you inside of a TV.— Lindsay
- I thought birds grew from bird seed. — Jen