When I was young and asked where babies came from I was told you had to put a 20 pence piece under your pillow..... having tried this with no baby as a result my parents told me it only worked for grown ups!
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- My parents told me that babies were made from dimonds under cabbage patches, that would grow into a baby.Anon
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- A friend of mine seemed to think that 100 pence was worth £6.— Richard Davies
- i thought "two pence a bag" from feed the birds from mary poppins was "toppins of ag"Anon
- My Dad told me that biting my nails would result in a large toenail being attached to my stomach lining.— LindaAG
- That because Gerber Baby Food had a baby on it real babies were put in there. Thanks a lot cousin!— Nicole