When I asked my mom where I came from, she told me I came from her tummy. I refused to believe that. Instead, I imagined a giant hospital room filled with babies. God put them there, and that's where your parents got you.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- I told my son that he used to be in my tummy when he was 4. So he asked me," Mommy why did you swollow me?"
— Christopher's mom - On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith
- My parents told me that babies were made from dimonds under cabbage patches, that would grow into a baby.Anon
- I used to believe that as I ate food, I filled up, and that once I filled up completely, I would die. Anon
- i used to believe that a ghost lived under my bed and that a giant lived under our dining room table.— nameless
- My mum always told me not to pick my nose and eat it because spiders would grow in my tummy......— Ben