My mom had a friend who was pregnant and she was talking about eating a healthy diet to nourish her child. It didn't make sense to me because I thought unborn babies ate stuff like I did. I thought mommies had little kitchens in their bellies so when the baby got hungry, it would just climb up on the counter and pour itself a bowl of Captain Crunch.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- I also used to think that Mommies didn't have periods. I thought it went away once you had a baby.— T
- A friend of mine used to think that you got pregnant from eating baby food.— Jemima
- When I was around 4 or 5, I thought babies came from seeds that daddies put in mommies bellybuttons.— gullible
- I used to believe that my dogs diet was clothes, because that was all I ever saw him eating— kay
- I used to think that the way mommies got pregnant was if they ate a lot.— anonymous
- I used to believe that eating too many tomatoes could make you pregnant.— Mariah