When my brother was about 3 years old, about the same time my mother was pregnant with me, he announced to my mother that when he grew he was going to 'grow a baby in his tummy just like her'. She was heartbroken having to explain to him that only girls can do that.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I slept on my tummy my boobs would never grow so I never slept on my tummy.— LoLo
- My mother told me that if I kept sucking my thumb I would grow another one out the side of the first one.Anon
- i thought that when it was your birthday you grow and then you didn't grow until a years time.— hello
- When I was little I believed that the mother vomited the baby. Anon
- when i was 5 years old I thought that a pregnant women deliever the baby by vomiting it — Nesreen Tashkandi
- if you eat a seed, the plant will grow in your tummyAnon